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fire Two Jap Centers
Of Industry From Sea
BY LEIF ERICKSON
GUAM, July 16— (AP)—Gunfire 91’ the U. S. Pacific Fleet virtually
jemolished two Japanese industrial centers while carrier planes
burned & third city to the ground and with land-based bombers
heavily attacked 13 others Saturday and Sunday in one of the most
destructive weekends ever suffered by the enemy.
The carrier aireraft sank or damaged 103 Japanese ships and 25
parges totalling 1083009 tons. ol )
. e el Bl aare e e | b
parges VOB ISR e W e .
Feeble anti-aireraft fire was the
only opposition offered to the en
tire series of explosive assaults.
Warships Blast Shore
Battleship forces spearheaded
py the 45,000-ton superbattleships
Missouri, Towa and Wisconsin, all
put destroyed the iron and steel
center of Muroran’ on . Hokkaido
Jsland yesterday. Carrier planes
nad burned out practically all of
industrial Kushiro on the same
island the day before. '
Tokyo conceded the powerful
Third Fleet bombardment units
were pulling out only “because of
pad weather conditiens which
made further attacks difficult”
and warned they would strike
ain. .
agLand..basPd aircraft rar_xgmgl
trom Superforts to Iwo Jima’s
fighters kept the air pressure on
Japan today, although their num
bers were ngligible compared to
Tokyo’s estimate of 2,500 sorties
flown by carrier aircraft over
northern Honshu and Hokkaido
Islands Saturday and Sunday..
Japanese clamored for their
governitient to do something about
it and Lt. Gen. Barney M. Giles,
deputy commander of the new U.
S. Strategic Air Forces, said 3,000
planes could strike Japan any day
they wished.
B-29’s Return
B-20s made a return visit to
attack the Nippon oil tompany
plant at Kudumatsu on Honshu,
about five miles southeast of Tok
yuama, with high explosives.
Elsewhere in the Far Western
Pacific, Navy search Privateers
heavily attacked Korea; Army
Liberators hit the Singapore area
and shipping off southern Honshu; ‘
Thunderbolts ranged to the China
coast; attack and fighter bombersl
hit two Kyughu Island cities; car
rier planes struck three airfields
on Honshu, amd 100 Army Mus
tangs attacked airfields around
Nagoya.
Communiques from three Amer
ican commands reported aerial as-~
saults on 11 Japanese cities: Muro
ran, Hakodate, - Esashi, Kushiro,
Sendai and Shibetsu, all on Hok
kaido Island; Nagoya, Aomori and
Kudumatsu, all on Honshu; and
Miyazaki and Kagoshima on Kyu=
shu.
The Tokyo radio additionally
reported that carrier planes laso
raided Otaru, Abashiri, Asigawa
and Obihiro, all on Hokkaido.
With reports still incomplete for
Sunday’s raids, carrier planes in
three days’ strikes, including their
July 10 raids on Tokyo, have de
stroyed or damaged at least 434
Japanese planes—aircraft which
the Japanese plainly were trying
to hoard for defense against an
Amezican invasion of their home
land. 4
~Chinese Capture Base |
Chinese troops were reported
mopping up Japanese remnants in
the streets of Kanhsien today after
capturing the airfield south of
that Kiangsi province city—sixth
former American gir base site to
be regained by the Chinese in their
current drive,
To the southwest in Kwangsi
Province other Chinese forces were
closing in on still another former
American air base at'Kweilin. The
Chinese high command announced
today that one Chinese column
had captured Kwangminkai on the
Hunan-Kwangsi railway 50 miles
So‘ulh‘west of Kweilin and was
Pressing on toward Yungfu, 32
miles from Kweilin, :
lufif(]j“the!. Chinese column cap
-3 Liukiangshien, 35 miles
SOllf)eust of Liuchow and was ad
yoncing toward Hsiujenhsien on
1 ea;‘.‘ ‘»B“flus . Secondary highway
gum}('i‘f I'o Kweilin. Chinese van
froum ‘I“fe?? reported 11 1-2 miles
wom Hsuijenhsien, . which is 47
. § east of Liuchow. 1
ane?? major portion of the Jap
sien . Toops garrisoned at Kanh
the pecre Teported retreating to
Wana X”h in the direction of
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ATHENS BANNER-HERALD
WAR ROUNDUP
- BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
JAPAN-—Battleships bombarded
the Japanese mainland for the
| second day while 1,000 carrier
planes hit mainland points. The
. Saturday and Sunday fleet-air
l‘strike sank or damaged 128 Japa
nese ships and small craft and
‘heavily damaged indus‘rial, trans
port and harbor areas.
. .BORNEO—Aussies neared Sam
bodja oil fields, north of Balik-~
papan. *
PHILIPPINES — 4,879 Japanese
dead were counted in the Philip=-
pines during the past week, with
608 prisonérs taken.
RYUKYUS — Ihiya and Aguni
Islands off Okinawa occupied by
U. S. Marines.
" CHlNA—Chinese captured city
lon the Hunan Kwangsi railroad,
50 miles southwest of Kweilin.
BURMA—DBritish seized initia
tive in the Sittang river bend and
are besieging the main Japanese
concentration point of Myitkyo, 74
miles northwest of Rangoon.
Arch Bishop Urges
Bureaus To Adjust '
Marital Troubles
CANTERBURY, England, July
16.— (AP) —The Archbishop of
Canterbury urged today a nat
ionwide network of public . bu
reaus to help adjust marital
troubles and check an increase in
the divorce rate which he de
scribed -as “a grave national
problem.”
In an address prepared for de
livery at the Camterbury Dioces
an Conference, the Archbishop
urged mayors of ‘every town in
England to “take immediate
steps” to establish such bureaus
and declared that “public money
should besavailable” to finance
them. .
He also demanded ‘“ruthless”
action by the government to pro
vide adequate housing to help
restore the stability of home life,
which he said was essential to
national well being.
The Archbishop added, how
ever, that ‘“whatever remedial
measures are devised they cannot
avail much unless at the same
time the community is .deliber
ately determined to raise the gen
eral standard of honor, loyalty
and obligation in marriage and
sex relations.”
~ “Very many miarriages are bro
'ken up or imperiled for reasons
directly or indirectly connected
with the war,” the Archbishop
said.
| He cited “long separations un
‘der unnatural conditions” and
' hasty wantime marriages. :
The Archbishop cautioned,
however, that the need for help
was ‘“not confined to service men
and women” because “many civil
ians also have been obliged to
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U, S. GOVERNMENT STILL POURING
HUGE SUMS INTO WAR PLANTS
BY JAMES MARLOW
WASHINGTON, July 16—(&)—
The government still is pournig']
money into war plants for the
fight against Japan.
The money is being spent for
new equipment in existing plants,
expansion of existing plants, or
for new plants. ‘
The money is being spent by
the Office of Defense Plants Since
Germany’s fall in May, ODP has
committed itself to spending 44
million dollars. |
The new plants, the expansions |
and the new equipment are scat
tered all over the country. So not
just one section is benefitting. ‘
The ODP—formerly called the
Defense Plants Cooperation, part’
of the government’s big lending
agency, the Reconstruction Finance |
Corporation — has spent $8,600,~
000,000 since it was established in
August, 1940. “
Still More |
ODP officials say they do not
know how much more the agency
will be called upon to spend and
for this reason: |
It puts up the money when the
procurement agencies — like the
War or Navy Departments—come
in and say they need more of
something that is being made or
they need something never made
‘before.
\ ODP looks around for a plant
'making what is needed. That plant
'may be working at capacity. With
additional equipment, or more
room, it could fill the Army or
Navy order. v
In a case where new equipment
or expansion of an existing plant
will do the job, ODP arranges to
finance whatever is necessary to
be déne.
Sometimes it finds a brand new
plant is needed. In that case, it
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The world’s three greatest powers are represented at an historic meeting which opened today in
Potsdam, Germany, near the capital of the once arrogant and powerful Germany. The results of
the discussions of three men, Truman of the U. 8., Chdrchill of Great Britain, and Stalin of the
Soviet Union, will have sweeping repercussions throughout the world. Upon the question of their
undersianding of each other will hinge the peaceful settlement of many of the world’s immediate
and future problems.
Former Governor
Rivers May Enfer
Gubematorial Race
ATLANTA, July 16—(AP)—
What the governor said about a
former governor split the play to
day with the announcement by a
man who wants be governor.
Governor Ellis Arnall, in a ver
bal pat on the back for a former
governor, termed E. D. Rivers tae
state’s” ‘first modern’’ executive.
Arnall took political speculators
for a ride however by declaring
he might seek re-election him
self “if the legislature fixes it for
me.” £
Allen Is Candidate
While Arnall and Rivers were
breaking - bread together and
praising each other Delacy Allen
Albany attorney who was- nomi
nated Lieutenant Governor in
1936, came out wit.y an announce
ment of his candidacy for the
governorship. K
Arnall and Rivers’ spoke at a
luncheon for members of the
Cherokee Bar Association tield in
Chattanooga, Tenn., Saturday. Al
len made his announcement at his
Albany ‘aome. :
The Constitution now prevents
re-election of a governor to a
second consecutive term.
Rivers, in a interview before
the luncheon, declined to com
ment on the possibility he would
run for the ofice next year.
“It’s a little too early to say
anything”, Rivers saiq. :
“Of course there are all kinds of
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has to finance the building of a
new plant.
Buy Troop Trains <
Of the 44 million dollars con
tracted for since Germany’s fall,
21 million dollars are for new
troop trains for use in.this coun
try; 13 millions are for a plant
making fiber glass which the Navy
needs instead of kapok.
ODP officials point to the fiber
glass case as an example of how
ODP operates. At first it was
thought brand new plants would
be needed to turn out the fiber
glass. .
ODP shopped around for exist
ing plants that could turn it out.
It found what it wanted in Kansas
City. The 13 million dollars will
be spent primarily for new equip
ment and some plant alterations.
115 Increases
Those 115 increases are largely
in aircraft, chemical and rubber
products—for new equipment.
The 33 new projects are for
manufacturing aircraft, chemicals,
carbon black (used in tirg mak
ing), electrorics and heavy trucks
and trailers.
The ODP money is being spent
while some war plants are being
cutback in war production, but
ODP officials explain that cut
backs occur where a product is
no longer needed or less needed.
The Japanese war, stepped up
now, calls for equipment that is
not always the same as that used
against the Germans.
The ODP owns about 900 war
planis. And it owns the machinery
which equips ahout “another 1,000
plants.
~ So far only about 40 complete
planis, built in desperate haste to
fight a two front war, have been
declared surplus.
Athens, Ga., Monday, July 16, 1945,
Weather Cancels
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‘Athens Night
Naval Services
Regret at the cancellation of
Sunday night chapel services,
to which citizens of Athens had
been invited, was expressed to
day by Capt. C. E. Smith, USN,
commanding officer of the Navy
Pre-Flight School. ¥
Sunday’s function, which was
cancelled because of inclement
weather, had been designated
as “Athens Night” in order to
give local persons an oppor
tursity to see the type of service
being held on the station.
This same opportunity will be
available in the future, Captain
Smith said, in extending his
ivitation te include all future
services.
President Truman
[[Nominales Vinson
For Treasury Job
. WASHINGTON, July 16—(#P)—
President Truman today nominat
ed Fred M. Vinson, War Mobiliza
tion chief, to succeed Henry Mor
genthau, jr., as Secretary of the
Treasury.
The Chief Executive acted ahead
of schedule in order to comply
with a request by Morgenthau
that the new secretary be named
without delay so he could tackle
a number of pending financial
problems.
~ Mr. Truman first had planned
to submit Vinson’s nomination
konly after returning from the Big
Three meeting in Berlin.
’ The President also submitted to
‘the ‘Senate today the nomination
of Theron Lamar Caudle of Wades
boro, N. C., to be an assistant At
‘torney General succeeding Tom .
Clark, now Attorney General.
Caudle, 41, is a 1926 graduate of
Wake Forest College who since
4940 has been United States at
torney for the Western District of
North Carolina.
Harold William Judson of Cali
fornia, who used to practice law
in.the President’s native Missouri,
whs nominated for assistant solici
tor general to succeed Hugh B.
Cox, whose resignation for “per
sonal reasons” has’ been accepted
by Mr. Truman.
Judson, 45, a nafive of Essex,
Vermont, attended the University
of Missouri, the University of
Southern California and the Uni
versity of Kansas City School of
Law.
He practiced in Kansas City in
1925-26, and later practiced in
Los Angeles until 1942 when he
entered the Navy as a Lt. Com
mander.
Commander Pierce
Kiwanis Speaker
Commander F. W. Pierce, exe
cutive officer at the Nay Pre-
Flight School here, will be the
featured speaker at the regular
weekly luncheon meeting of the
Kiwanis club.
' The meeting will be held at
the Holman Hotel at 1:?0 o’clock
land Commander Pierce is expect
|ed to discuss various changes in
| the operation of the big Navy
installation here.
RABID FOXES
ATLANTA, July 16—(&)—More
than 40 persons and an undeter
mined number of livestock have
been bitten by rabid foxes in
tsouth Georgia counties, Dr. T F.
Sellers, direcotr of the laboratory
division of the State Department
of Health, reports.
ESTABLISHED 1833,
Butfer 16 Poinis
As Government
Starls Meat Plan
WASHINGTON, July 16—(P)—
Stores sold butter at 16 ration!
points a pound today as the gov
ernment put into effect a major
segment of its plan to improve the
meat situation.
Elsewhere on the food front, the
| Republican Congressional Food
lst% Committee issued a state
| ment saying that “an increase in
the price of bread and a reduction
in the quantity produced may re
sult from failure of the adminis
tration to provide adequate sugar
supplies. s
Precautionary Measure
- The reduction from 24 to 16
points: for creamery butter is ex
pected by OPA to prevent deteri’—‘
oration in retail stores during the
season of peak butter production.
’Farm or country butter remains
‘unchanged at 12 points a pound,
and margarine continues at 14
’points. {
A ten-million pound increase inl
civilian butter supplies is expcted
next month, OPA said, as the re—i
sult of a cut in the amount order
ed set aside for military use.. .
The Republican Food Study
Committee’s report on bread quot-]
ed Representative Jenkins of Ohio,
chairman of- the unofficial group,
as saying most bakers have hadi
to make up losses on bread output
with profits from such sweet goods |
as rolls, cakes and pastries. (
Asserting that sugar quotas for
bakeries have been cut to 60 per{
cent of their 1941 volume and that
many bakers report they actually
are. able to obtain only 44 to 50
per cent, Jenkins added: 1
“This will mean a substantial
reduction in the volume of sweet
goods that many bakers will eitheri
have to start selling bread for what
it costs them to make it, or go
out of business.” |
Increase Slaughter
Meanwhile the Agriculfure De
partment made effective today its
program to increase livestock
slaughter in non-federally inspect
ed plants as a step toward greatest
possible use of all slaughtering
facilities.
Under the plan announced by
Secretary Anderson a week ago,
the governmnt will exempt slaugh
terers from their present quota
limitations if they meet certain
conditions, and the government
will accept non-federally inspected
meat in its own buying.
To obtain exemptions, the small-~
er slaughterers must give assur
ance that they will observe price
ceilings, will not let meat move
into black markets, will meet sani
tary standards and provide the
government with such meat as it
may require.
Legislators In Fight
For Sex Equality
Say Rights Abused
WASHINGTON, July 16—(AP)
—A battle over equal rights for
men and womr began in congress
today.
_ The House Judiciary Commit
tee touched off the controversy
by filing a majority report urg
ing adoption of legislation pro
posing an equa rights amendment
to ‘the constitution.
The report said suda action
is needed to halt what it termed
discrimination against women in
the form of lower pay schedules,
and to prevent their exclusion
from many jobs.
~ Protesting vi¥gorously, seven
committee members filed two mi
nority reports condemning the
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Hunger, Reconstruciz:n, Jap War
. s B ¥
Will Be Discussed At Conference
" BY DANIEL DE LUCE AND ERNEST B. VACCARO
POTSDAM, July 16.— (AP)—President Truman talked with Prime Minister
Churchill and toured the wrecked heart of Berlin today preliminary to the first
Big Three meeting, at which the war with Japan likely will be a leading topic.
First American President to visit Germany in 25 years, Mr. Truman had an
opportunity to see Adolf Hitler’s ruined and looted chancellery, the battle-scar
red Reichstag and the wreckage of the Tiergarten.
Soviet spokesmen said they had
no word that Premier Stalin and'
Foregin Minister Molotov had ar
rived in Potsdam. The opening |
sessions of the conference origi
nally scheduled today, apparently
had been delayed until tomor
row.
Inspects Second Armored
The President slipped out of
Potsdam for two hours for his
tour. He inspected the U. S. Sec
ond Armored (Hell on Wheels)
Division along one of the super- |
highways Hitler built. This div
ision is an American occupation
force in Berlin.
Prime Minister Churchill called
on Mr. Truman for their first
meeting since Presdient Roose
velt’s death, but this was describ
ed as simply a courtesy call.
Stopping outside Hitler’s Chan
wellery, the President shook his
head at the destruction and told
reporters:
“It.is a terrible thing, but they
brought it on themselves.” -
President Truman,+an artillery
captain in the last war, presented
a citation to Company E of the
17th Armored Engineering Bat
talion—which crossed the Rhine
under fire—and commented: |
“I am only sorry that I didn’t
get a chance to participaie in
some phase of this war myself.” .
He made the award from a
half-track personnel carrier in
which he stood with Secretary
Byrnes, Admiral Leahy, and his
military and naval aides.
He inspected the Second Ar-
Lmdred Division in company of
its commander, Brig, Gen. John
H. Collier. Then his wide tour of
Berlin carried into some sections
of the Russian occupation zone.
Passing through the Branden
burg gate, he was saluted by Col.
Gen. Alexander Gorbgtov, com
mander of Berlin, and by his
deputy, Major General Nikolai
Barinov.
The whole hierachy of United
States and British military lead
ers were in Potsdam along with
two American cabinet officers,
Secretary of State Byrnes and
Secretary of War Stimson. Just
who accompanied Stalin and For
eign Commissar Molotov to the
Big Three conference has not
been announced. Russia alone of
the great world powers is at
peace with Japan.
Mr. Truman flew to Berlin from
Antwerp yesterday. He was the
first American President to touch
German soil since Wilson visited
the beaten Reich of Kaiser Wil
heim II in 1919.
Conference Secretive s
‘The Scores of state and mili
tary leaders talked in an atmos
phere as remote to the outside
world as Shangri La. The 200
news men assigned to the mo
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IF BIG-3 CONTINUE TO COOPERATE,
THE PEACE IS WON, SAYS ANALYST
By DeWITT MacKENZIE
AP Foreign Affairs Analyst
It won’t be long now before we
have an answer to the greatest
question that has grown out of
the European ' war—whether the
Big Three can stand solidly to
gether in the reconstruction of a
shattered continent as they have
stood together on the battlefields.
If President Truman, Generalis
simo Stalin and :Prime Minster
Churchill are able to keep the
Berlin conference in the charn
nels of* unity and mutual confi
dence, then we shall have won
tne peace as we have won the
war. Solution of all the great
probiems growing out of the Hit
leriun conflic tare bound up in
this unity among America, Bri
tain and Russia.
~ Blunt Talk
One can foresee blunt talk
about the conference table, for
confidence depends on the dissi
pation of any suspicions * which
the Big Three may have of one
another’s intentions. Confidence
also calls for the mutual respect
which recognizes that each has
contributed its limit to the war
partnership and that none is en
titled to special prerogatives.
While we are on the subject of
contributions, it wouldn’t be sur
prising if one of the results of
the conference would be to let
the rest of Europe understand
what our Russian and British
allies already knew, and this is
that there are limits to the re
sources which American can de
vote to the rehabilitation of the
old world. The mistaken idea
seems to. prevail in many capi
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Sixth Finance Distric?
Led State In “E” Bonds
Surrender of Germany did not in the least put the damper on the
patriotic spirit of citizens in the” Sixth Finance District, in which
Clarke county is located, final figures on the Seventh War Loan
campaign revealed today. :
The. district, of which R. V. Watterson is chairman, is comprised of
eight counties and, according to Jackson P. Dick,: State War Finance
chairman, was the only district in Georgia in which every single
county met or exceeded its quota for sale of “E” bonds.
Almost Half Tofal
Number Of Strikers
Return To Work
BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Some 24,250 persons, long werk
less through labor disputes, went‘
back to work today, reducing the
nation’s striking idle to 29,750, its
lowest point in weeks. |
And a conciliation meeting was
to be held today in an effort to
iron out a jurisdictional dispute
which caused 874 AFL Bay Cities
Metal Trades Workers to leave
their jobs in San Francisco. The
men, working on nine war-dam
aged govornment ships, were pro
testing the employment pof CIO
scalers, cleaners and painters, but
they continued work on other
ships. Y § Bt dins
' End Rubber Strike
The largest share of the back-to~
’work movement developed in
;Akron, 0., where 16,500 employes
of the Firestone Tire and Rubber
Company voted to end their 14-
day old strike. The men decided
by a 3-~1 margin to resume work
this morning. And full mainte
nance crews yesterday prepared
the plants for operation. \
The balance of the . renewed
production was at the Spicer
Manufacturing Company in To
ledo, O. Approximately 6,500
members of the CIO-United Auto
workers trooped back to their
work after 10 days of idleness. ‘
On the pbverse side of the me
dallion, the picture remained dark.
Newspapers in five cities—New
York, Birmingham, Fort Wayne,
Ind., Jersey City and Bayonne, N,
J., continued disputes with their
drivers and printers. ‘
In New York Joseph Simons,
president of the Newspaper and
Mail Deliverer's Union (Ind), said
the 16-day-old strike would con
tinue despite a warning from pub
lishers that the 1,700 strikers
would be dismissed today if the
strike were not halted.
Birmingham Strike
In Birmingham, where three
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tals that our Uncle Sam is Santa
Claus. There’s nothing he would
like better than to play that role,
for he has the disposition, but he
just hasn’t the wherewithal to
meet all the demands being made
on him.
Undoubtedly the freedom with
which Uncle Sam has contributed
throughout the ‘war has created
the impression that his means
are unlimited. Well, he’s not com
plaining, but the fact is that his
Sunday suit is beginning to show
some shiny spots. So while he
will continue to share everything
he can, there will be a point
where he has to tighten up a bit.
Will Discuss Germany
The Berlin parley will deal
with many situations which nor
mally would come up at a full
dress pesce conference. Out
standing among these (apart
from reinforcement of solidarity
amaong the Big Three and the cre
ation of common policies for the
reconstruction) is the handling of
Germany. The punishment and
remoulding of this former great
power presents staggering prob
lems. There are territorial ad
justments, perhaps the breaking
up of the Reich, the form of gov
ernment to be permitted, and the
reparations.
Probably the most troublesome
aspect of German rehabilitation
lies in the re-education of the
people. It will have to be worked
out most carefully, for a mistake
might be disastrous.
The Nazis of course have recog
nized all this, and they are hop
ing against hope that this tran
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Chairman Watterson ‘this mor
ning received the iinal report on
the campaign with a leter. tr?m
State Chairman Dick' paying trib
ute to the Sixth District and its
chairman for the outstanding rec
ora made in the drive. While the
Seventh War Loan was the larg
est of all so far staged, the dis
trict exceeded its quota for “E”
Bonds with 111.7 percent, and
the overall quota with 164.1 per
cent, The district, like Clarke
county, has never failed to meet
or exceed a War Bond quota.
With a quota of $1,260,000 for
“E” bonds, the district purchased
$1,407,447 of the smaller bonds
and bought a total in all bands of*
$3,398,036 against an overall quo
ta of $2,070,000. .
Final report on the district by
counties, “E” bond guota, amqunt
yof "E” bond sales, overall quota,
}total sales. and percentage, is as
follows: - " P
. Banks county, $15,000, $20,895
(139.3 percent) $20,000, $30,926
(154.6 percent).
Barrow, $120,000, $122,816
(102.3 percent), $230,000, $613,710
(226.8 percent).
. Clarke, $499,000, $550,125 (110.2
percent), $899,000, $1,386,021
(154.2 percent). .
Elbert, $194,000, $232,175 (119.7
percent), $330,000, $452,822 (137.2
percent).
Franklin, $120,000, $132,596
(110.5 percent), $145,000, $393,597
(271.4 percent). :
Hart, $94,000, $108,8608 (115.7
percent), $134,000, $157,933 (117.9
percent).
Jackson, $162,000, $163,360
(100.8 percent), $232,000, $250,713
(108.1 percent). °~ -
Madison, $56,000, $76,672 (136.0
percent), SBO,OOO, $112,314 (140.4
percent). g
Totals, $1,260,000, $1,407,447
(111.7 percent), $2,070,000, $3,-
398,036 (164.1 percent).
In Clarke county, with a quota
of $499,000 in “E” bonds, $550,125
were sold, an excess of $51,125 or
110.2 percent, and against an
overall quota of $899,000, total
bonds sold amount to $1,386,021,
an excess of $493,121 or 154.2
percent, \ . A
In releasing the figures, Mr.
Watterson highly praised the pat
riotism of citizens and firms in
buying the bonds and the many
workers who helped sell them, in
cluding each county chairman in
the district. '
“The remarkable and greatly
pleasing response to the Seventh
War Loan in the Sixth Finance
District, is most inspiring. * Our
people did not let the faet that
the Germans had surrendered
' dull their patriotic spirit one bit.
They realized that the war with
' Japan was continuing and by
their purchases ‘they evidenced
'the fact that they realize there is
still a job and they are determ
ined to do everything possible to
bring a speedy end of the Jap
‘an_edse side of the conflict,” ho
said .
More Car Owners
Become Eligible
For New Tires
WASHINGTON, July 16—(AP)
—Some passenger car owners,
including “A” card holders, be
came eligible today for new tires
for bona fide change of address
that required a special gasoline
ration. »
Tis is the first time since the
beginning of tire rationing that
any “A” card Holders have been
eligible for new tires, %
“This extension of the eligibili
ty is particularly needed now that
increasing numbers of persons are
moving from one city to another,”
OPA said in anouncing that:
These persons mdy apply for
new tires if they have a tire fail
ure while making a permanent
caange in residence, regardless of
the type of ration they hold:
I. War workers moving from
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