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The Jackson Herald By John N. Holder. MARTIN INSTITUTE CASE HEARD IN SUPREME COURT The Martin Institute case was argued Monday in the State Capitol before a section of the Supreme Court, consisting of Chief Justice C. S. Reed and Associate Justices W. H. Grice and W. H. Duckworth. The case was brought in the Su perior Court of Jackson County by the City Board of Education of Jef ferson and the County Board of Education of Jackson County Vs. Trustees of Martin Institute in which they alleged that there are no trustees of Martin Institute be cause the Martin Institute charter has expired and never been renew ed, and that no property belongs to the trustees of Martin Institute, but to the City of Jefferson. The answer was by the trustees that their char ter required no renewal, that the trustees have had a deed to Martin Institute grounds and buildnigs and have been in possession of them for fifty-seven years. In the. hearing before Judge Pratt in Jackson Superior Court, a de cision was given in favor of the Trustees of Martin Institute. The case was carried to the Supreme Court and, as above stated, argued Monday. Attorneys for the plain tiffs are H. W. Davis of Jefferson and A. C. Wheeler of Gainesville. Attorneys for the defendants are George W. Westmoreland of Jeffer son, W. W. Stark of Commerce and Thomas J. Shackelford of Athens. Arguments before the Supreme Court were made by Judge A. C. Wheeler for plaintiffs, and for the defendants by Judge W. W. Stark. Those who went from Jefferson to the hearing were Morris Bryan, Nat Hancock, T. T. Benton, H. W. Davis, Clifford Storey, George W. Westmoreland, John N. Holder and Mrs. Holder. It will be several days before the court hands down a decision in this case. k Bmam IMltt ?.* v*' ALVIN DOUGLAS WILKES GRADUATES WITH HONOR A letter to Mrs. Mary Wilkes from Captain H. A. McClure of the U. S. Naval Training Station at Norfolk, Va., carries this information: “It gives me great pleasure to in form you that your son, Alvin Douglas Wilkes, Apprentice Seaman, U. S. Naval Reserve, has completed the course of instruction at the Naval Training Station, Norfolk, Va., with the highest marks in his platoon for all around proficiency in his rating. His conduct and bearing in general, his attention to duty and the intelligent manner with which he has learned ond profited from the instruction reflect much credit on his early training. He has shown unusual aptitude for the Naval Ser vice, and there is excellent promise that if he continues as well as he has begun, his Naval Service will be very successful. I am forwarding a photograph of your son which was taken at the Naval Training Station, and I ex- SINGLE COPY sc. U. S. BEGAN BUYING EXTRA TIRES THURSDAY Washington.—The government be gan purchasing motorists’ “excess” tires Thursday in an effort to create a huge national stockpile to keep America rolling. Details of the purchase plan were announced Wednesday by the Office of Price Administration in connec tion with nation-wide gasoline ra tioning which limits each private car to five tires. The Defense Supplies Corpora tion has advanced $150,000,000 to finance the program, and designat ed 160 warehouses throughout the country as delivery points. The Railway Express Company will col lect the tires and transport them to the warehouses. While gasoline rationing puts a limit only on the number of tires for each car, DSC also will pur chase tubes which motorists desire to sell. Under OPA regulations, gasoline rations will be issued to private cars only after owners list all their tires by serial number and certify they have no more than five tires for each car. In the already-ration ed East, the certification will be re quired for continuous use of coupon books. OPA said the maximum penalty for false certification was a fine of SIO,OOO and a ten-year prison term. Except in the East, registration for gasoline rations will begin in school houses November 9, with rationing going into effect November 22. OPA said the government would pay ceiling prices for all tires pur chased. Administrator Leon Hen derson asked each car owner to keep his five best tires and to sell or give the rest to the government regardless of their condition. “Tires obviously worn out may be sold to scrap rubber dealers, but DSC is the only legal market for usable tires and tubes. It’s no trick to sell tires to the government, Henderson said. All the owner has to do is call or write the Railway Express Agency office nearest his home, and a truck will be sent to pick up the tires. The owner will be given a receipt and he will receive a check, or war bonds or stamps, if he desires, in payment shortly after tires have been inspected at the ware house for determination of their value. In areas where Railway Express does not maintain pick-up service, the tire owner must take his idle tires to the nearest agency office. The tires purchased by the gov ernment will be rationed to motor ists “on the basis of need.” Tires in good condition will be distributed to dealers as soon as possible. Tires damaged or worn smooth will be repaired and recapped before being resold. The ultimate price to be paid by the consumer will not exceed the retail price ceiling. The cost of collecting and redistributing the tires will be borne by DSC. Under the gas rationing program motorists must submit their tires to periodic inspection. The motor ists will pay a nominal fee, as yet undetermined, for the inspection. OPA said a large number of garages and filling station would be named official inspectors. They will re ceive the fee paid by the motorist. tend to you my since congratula tions.” This information brings much joy to the many friends of Douglas and he is the recipient of sincere con gratulations because of the high record he is making in military ser vice. JEFFERSON, Jackson County, Georgia. i Mmk # inn %L 1 jb 3 1 b H r II IH M s', Lt. Damon Gause Reaches Australia After 159 Days Great rejoicing filled the hearts of every one Monday when news came to Mrs. Damon Gause that Lieutenant Gause had arrived safe ly in Australia after a dramatic es cape from the Philippines. Lieut. Gause and Miss Ruth Evans were married in early fall of 1941 and immediately he left for foreign service. On arrival in the Philip pines, he sent Mrs. Gause a radio gram that he had arrived safely. Later she kad a letter from the war department that his location was unknown and that he would be regarded as “missing in action” un til there was further news from him. Since then, naturally, her suspense has been terrible, and she has been the recipient of deep sympathy, but hope that he would some day be found could not be eradicated from her mind. She frequently communicated with the war department and with persons who had returned from overseas. Only last Friday, she received a let ter from a nurse in Walter Reed Hospital, Washington, who wrote Mrs. Gause that her husband escap ed from Bataan when it fell and made his way to Corregidor, and when she left Corregidor for the United States he was in the hos pital, suffering from a state of ex haustion. A few days after this, Corregidor was captured and until Monday his fate was unknown either to his family or to the gov ernment officials. On his arrival in Australia, he was accompanied by a companion, Captain William Lloyd Osborne of Los Angeles, California, who stated: “We arrived here not by any expert navigation but by the grace of God.” They had made a 159-day journey by foot and on a small boat. During their long southward trip, which ended on October 11, the of ficers hid by day and traveled by night, several times escaping by a narrow margin encounters with Japanese troops and ships. They survived a machine-gun ning by a Japanese plane almost within sight of Australia and once sailed right by two Japanese cruis ers which ignored them. Gause, an airman assigned tem porarily to • service with ground troops during the Battle of Bataan, was en route to the front lines short ly before the capitulation. He unexpectedly encountered a Japanese armored truck, but jump ed into a river bed and hid thera all night. The next night he quiet ly picked his way through Jap nese troops sleeping feet to feet on '%nts —Cut Courtesy of Atlanta Journal. scattered along the river. His luck finally failed him, how ever, for after swimming along the coast he walked ashore and was captured by the Japanese. “I figured that if I was going to get away I’d better go before the Japs got organized and rounded up the prisoners under guard,” he said. “So I made a break for it and swam to a boat anchored some dis tance off shore. They spotted me while I was swimming and fired a few rifle shots, but missed. “I was exhausted and slept in the boat for a few hours. Then I cut loose a rowboat tied alongside and started rowing away. They opened up on me with machine guns but missed again.” Gause counted 40 machine-gun bullet holes in his boat when he reached Corregidor Island. When the surrender of Corregi dor appeared imminent, Gause took* a native boat and headed for the Luzon mainland by night. A storm upset the boat, but he hung on un til daylight and then swam ashore. Later he learned from natives that another American was seeking to escape and through them arrang ed a meeting. It was months, how ever, before he and Osborne finally came together. They began planning their flight from Luzon and ultimately secured a motorboat with a cranky Diesel engine from the Filipinos, who were afraid to run it. They rigged a sail for added power in case of emer- gency. On August 15, with the American flag flying bodly from the masthead, they set sail on a voyage which was to last 58 days. Asked how they got along to gether on the long trip, Gause said: “Once we didn’t speak to each other for three days, but we knew our survival depended upon our pulling together." They lived on fish and rice, some of which they obtained from na tives, but took a desperate chance each time they went ashore be cause Japanese patrols were ac tive. STATE MISSION DAY AT OCONEE Oconee Baptist Sunday School will observe State Mission Day on next Sunday and everyone is in vited to atten l ' There will be a short program and a special collec tion tall be taken for State Mis sions. iliifeflf! Thursday, October 22, 1942. BILL LOWERING DRAFT AGE TO 18 IS PASSED BY HOUSE The House, performing what one member called “a disagreeable but necessary duty," passed Saturday a bill making youths of eighteen and nineteen subject to the draft. The vote was 345 to 16. The measure goes to the Senate. A similar bill was reported out by the Senate Military Committee and is scheduled for action. The step was recommended by President Roosevelt only five days ago. It was estimated that 2,500,000 young men thus will be made avail able for building up the army to a planned strength of 7,500,000 in 1943. After the elimination of the physically ineligible and others, army officials estimated that some 1,500,000 of the 2,500,000 18 and 19- year-olds would be inducted. Of the 16 congressmen voting against the bill, thirteen were democrats and three republicans. Congressman Whelchel of the ninth district was one of the thirteen. The bill provides that those who are in high school or college may finish the present school year. But after next July, education defer ments would be forbidden. It also contains a provision in tended to defer the induction of married men as long as possible. It does this by laying down a policy that no married man with children may be inducted while the state In which he resides still has eligible single men or childless married men. Childless married men would receive the same preferential treat ment as against single men. Under the present system, quotas are assigned by draft board areas, consisting of a rural county or a section of the city. A monthly quota must be filled, and if there are insufficient single men to meet it, the local draft board makes up the deficit from the 'married men on its list. Selective Service Headquarters some time ago instructed state di rectors to follow the policy of call ing all the single men in the state before inducting married men. The legislation would make the policy mandatory. CHARLES REDD, JR., COMPLETES TRAINING COURSE Charles Redd, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Redd of Jefferson, has recently completed preliminary training at the Naval Air Station in Pensacola, Fla., the “Annapolis of the Air,” according to an announce ment from the public relations of fice of that station. Redd enlisted in the Navy last month at the Macon recruiting office and has the distinction of being among the first group ever to be sent directly to Pensacola for pre liminary indoctrination. Upon com pletion of this primary training, he was assigned to duty at that station. Redd is one of the many men in the Navy today who have volun tarily joined their country’s fighting forces for service wherever they may be needed, and at the same time, have the opportunity of build ing their futures in profitable, established trades. Mrs. Pern Cooley, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Cooley and little daughter, Jeannette, Sergeant Pern Cooley, Jr., and Ike Cooley visited Mr. and Mrs. George Henry Fite, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Johnson in Jefferson Sunday afternoon.—Lawrenceville News-Herald. Invented Trolley Car System Frank Julian Sprague Is generally recognized as the inventor of the trolley road, the first installation of whfeh was made by him at Rich ‘"’t- m Vol. 68. No. 18. ROTARY PRINCIPLES DISCUSSED BY JOHN C. TURNER At the weekly meeting of Jeffer son Rotary Tuesday only three members were absent. It is the earnest desire of President George Westmoreland that the Club have some meetings during the remaind er of the year with an attendance of one hundred per cent. The president urged that Rotary be active in gathering Salvage. In ternational Rotary enjoins on ali clubs the tremendous importance of gathering in their communities ev ery piece of scrap metal. Progress has been made in the past week in this important undertaking, but it is hoped that the campaign may gather momentum during the next week. T. T. Benton, chairman of pro gram committee, presented the speaker of the hour, John C. Turn er. In becoming a Rotarian the speak er said one adds greater responsi bilities to his life. The principles at Rotary are vital in the life of the individual member. Rotary im presses the importance of health to the body. No one can be at his best unless his body is healthy. There fore, it behooves one to leam th* laws of health, what to eat, how to care for the body not only by proper diet, but through rest, recreation* work and the laws of hygiene. Rotary advocates the develop ment of the mind so as to make it capable of thinking quickly a<i accurately, expressing the thoughts with clarity, earnestneap and vigor. This can be accomplish ed by study, reading and the con stant use of the mind. '* One great purpose of Rotary is to make men more social, to get ac quainted, practice fellowship and talk to each other on subjects that bring pleasure and happiness. The climax of the efforts of Ro tary is to develop the spirit of man. This can be done by clean living, pure thoughts and a feeling of help lessness without Divine guidance. The Bible says Barnabas was a good man. No greater tribute can be paid any one than to say in verity that “He is a good mam!" Along with the great motto of Ro tary, “Service Above Self” should go a pure spirit. President Westmoreland took oc casion to highly compliment the message of the speaker. KONTZ ROBERTS COMMISSION ED LIEUTENANT Second Lieutenant Kontz Roberts was a graduate of the Officer date Department of the Eastern 1-Sig nal Corps School, Ft. Monmouth, N. J., on October 16th. He successful ly completed the course of instruc tion for Officer Candidates and was commissioned a Second Lieutenant in the Army of the United States, and assigned for duty with the Sig nal Corps. Lieutenant Roberts, was a former resident of Hoschton. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Roberts. RAYDO DAILEY ON SOLOMON ISLAND The friends of Raydo Dailey will be delighted to hear that his par ents, Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Dailey, have heard from him after four and one-half months of silence. He is with the Marines on Guadalcanal Island in the Solomons. The letter was dated September 6, so he must have participated in the capture of these important Islands. His father some time ago sub scribed to the Herald for him and he says will he be glad to get it and hear the from around home. ft
