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SEMINOLE COUNTY
Georgia’s Peanut Center
she richest and best farming section
of the world, the home of the in
dustrious farmer.
11.99 A YEAR IN ADVANCE
VOLUME XXV.
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if a n glance •
(As Gathered From Late News
Bullions Thursday Night)
Germany, Italy declare war on
United States; Mussolini tells cheer
ing Italians “It is an honor to fight
together with the Japanese;” Hitler
tells Reichstag war will determine
world’s history for next 500-1,000
years; Washington expects Congress
to act swiftly with counter-declara
tions of war against Berlin, Rome.
Manila reports 29,000-ton Japanese
battleship crippled and set afire by
U. S. bomb hits;'Berlin radio says
33,000-ton U. S. aircraft carrier Lex
ington sunk off Hawaii; Singapore
reports rescue of more than 2,000 of
3,000 officers and men from sunken
Prince of Wales and Repulse.
Japan throws fresh parachute
troops into Battle of Luzon Island in
Philippines; U. S. Army headquarters
reports American victory in crushing
first waves of seaborne Japanese in
vaders on Luzon; Tokyo says Jap
anese troops seize 350 American pri
soners in capturing U. S.-owned Guam
Island, other Japanese troops land
on Wake Island.
Prime Minister Churchill sounds
grave note on U. S., British navel
losses in Pacific, but says combined
Anglo-American fleets still superior
to total Rome - Berlin-Tokyo naval
forces.
Russians report smashing new suc
cesses on Ukraine, Moscow and Lenin
grad fronts; Soviet radio lists 12,000
Germans killed, wounded as Red arm
ies recapture Olets; Germans report
ed retreating in disorder from Tikh
vin, 110 miles east of Leningrad;
Hitler lists 3,806,865 Russian prison
ers capturvd. admits only 158,773
Germans killed 563,082 wounded in
Soviet campaign up to December 1.
British report Axis North African
armies retreating westward from To
bruk sector, British troops reported
beginning new encirclement action;
Italians admit tightening British pres
sure on Salum front.
CEMETERY CLEANING
To everyone who has any interest
at Lynn Cemetery please be there
next Wednesday, December 17th at
8:30.
Do not fail to come and bring tools
to work with.
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WAR DECLARED ON U. S.
JAPAN FIRST FOLLOWED, BY ITALY, GERMANY
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SANTA SAYS HE WILL APPEAR HERE
NORTH POLE, DEC. 12, 1941. (BY RADIO)
” ' CHAMBER OF COaQLERCB,-DONALSQNVILLE, GA.:
I GLADLY ACCEPT INVITATION GF DONALSONVILLE
MERCHANTS TO MAKE PERSONAL VISITS TO DONAL
SONVILLE DURING HOLIDAY TRADE SEASON. HOPE
TO ARRIVE IN DONALSONVILLE MONDAY, DEC. 22ND.
SANTA CLAUS.
Donalsonville Merchants Christmas
Stocks Is. Most Complete In Many Years
Donalsonville merchants this week
are completing their displays of
Christmas goods stocks and judging
from the stores visited this week, the
i stocks generally are the finest and of
jthe widest variety ever seen here.
Practically all of the merchants
have bought early this year, fearing
that there would be a shortage of de
| sirable gifts if orders were placed
late, and in view of their far-sighted
i ness the stores are filled with a line
'of gifts to suit every demand and
, at prices that will be suprisingly low.
I Many merchants state that they could
not replace the merchandise they are
offering and where obtainable the
price would be much higher due to
advanced market prices.
The stores are being gaily decorated
>in true holiday fashion and Christ-
I mas lights are being put up over the
; city.
' In connection with the Christmas
season the Chamber of Comemrce an
nounces that Santa Claus will pay a
visit to Donalsonville on Monday, De
cember 22, arriving about 11 o’clock
a. m. and will bring with him hun
-1 deeds of presents to be distributed to
[ the children of Seminole county. This
event last year drew one of the larg
est crowds in the history of the coun
ty, and a similar crowd is expected to
be on hand when he arrives for a brief
J
I visit Monday before Christmas.
THE NAVY NEEDS MEN
j
i Chief Machinist’s Mate. Claude A.
i Kingery of the Navy Recruiting Sub
-1 station, Albany, Georgia, announced
today that, you may now enlist in the
* Naval Reserve for two years. He al
ls© stated that the physical requirc-
J ments had been lowered. Visit the
t Recruiting Station for particular's.
"Messrs. R. L. Cox and H. M. Carter
Carter spent the first of the week in
Washington, D. C. on business.
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE COUNTY OF SEMINOLE AND THE CITY OF DONALSONVILLE, GEORGIA
Corps Called
Into Action
Home Defense
The Seminole County Home De
fense Corps was called into action
Thursday and men detailed to guard
the local water system and light
plant along with the REA substation.
The unite will be placed under or
ders from the national government
within the next few days, it is report
ed, and will be supplied with regu
lation army equipment. They will al
so be placed on the government pay
roll at regular soldier pay for servic
es rendered.
The guard detail inaugurated
Thursday night will be operated in
shifts, six men being on duty during
the night.
Navy Standards
Lowered For
War Service
The Navy Editor of this newspaper
announced today the receipt of a tele
gram from the Bureau of Navigation,
Washington, D. C.. the substance of
which is quoted below.
All Navy Recruiting Stations are
hereby authorized to accept enlist
ments in the Naval Reserve for per
iods of two, three and four years or
for minority.. This communication ex
cludes classes for Officers Training.”
An enlistment of two, three, four
years or for minority carries with it
the provision requiring the applicant
to serve throughout tthe National
Emergency or the event of war. as is
already required by all branches of
Military Service.
DONALSONVILLE NEWS FRIDAY, DECEMBER 12TH, 1941.
Radio bulletins flashed
the news Thursday that
Italy and Germany had de
clared war on the United
States, thus joining Japan
in fulfilling their tri-partite
pact.
Italy took the step first
and the German Reichstag
completed the pact with the
declaration later in the day.
... ————.
Striking without warning and ever
while negotiations between the twe
nations for maintenance of peace ir
thei Pacific were in progress ir
Washington, Japan unleashed a blitz
attack on the United States naval
and air bases at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
at dawn Sunday morning, causing
many casualties, sinking one Ameri
cah •battleship and one cruiser and
seriously damaging several others
and destroying many grounded air
planes.
The attack was followed a feu
i hours later by an announcement fron
| Tokyo that the imperial Japanese
(government was at war with the
. United States.
* Early Monday morning the Japa
; nese unleashed an air attack on the
|U. S. Naval and air bases in the
Philippines, causing many' casualties
and much damage. Attacks on the
Philippines have occured intermittent
i ly since early Monday morning, ane
I attacks have also been made in Stnga
.. pbrej The great British naval station
I? and Mother possession of Britain, a
• gain?! whom the Japs have also-de
dared war. News dispatches earl;
Wednesday report the landing of Jap
■ anese troops on certain of the Philip
pine islands.
Addressing a joint session of thi
, I Congress Monday at noon, Presidon
Roosevelt asked for a declaration of :
I state of war with Japan, and the Con
I gress, acting with unparalleled haste
i passed the war resolution Monday as
i ternoon. The resolution passed th<
, Senate without a dissenting vote, an<
the only negative vote in the lowei
House was cast by Congresswomar
Jeanette Rankin of Montana.
’ With the passage of the war reso
I lution, the United States was at wn:
! officially with Japan, and the natior
was at once ordered on a war-Umt
I basis. All army and navy leaves ol
I absence have been recalled and all
| men ordered to return to their posts
1 Homeguard defense units throughout
the nation have been ordered to stand
j ready for service, black-outs have
been ordered in certain west coast
i cities, and precautionary measures
have been ordered against sabotage.
President Roosevelt, speaking to th®
nation over radio Tuesday night, out,
’ lined the damage sustained thus far
: in the open conflict and declared the
: country was being placed on a full
war-time basis, and pledged the en
tire resources of the nation toward
crushing the enemy, warning the peo
i pie that the struggle would not be
■an easy one, and calling upon them
jfor full cooperation in this hour of
!the nation’s peril.
NOTICE OF ELECTION
Notice is hereby given that an elec
tion will be held on Tuesday, Decem
ber 30 between the hours of ten
o’clock A. M, and three o’clock P. M.
at the Iron City Courthouse, for the
i purpose of naming one trustee of the
Iron City school district, for a three
year term, beginning January 1, 1942.
1 Candidates must qualify with the
. County School Superintendent not lat
er than twelve o’clock noon, El. S. T.,
December IG, 1941. Candidates nwst
qualify in their own handwriting.
’ All rules and regulations govern
ing general elections for said county
are adopted and declared the rules
that shall govern said election.
Done and ordered this 2nd day of
December, 1941.
SEMINOLE COUNTY’ BOARD OF
1 EDUCATION.
Radio Bam Dance
To Be Held
One Night Only
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The Radio Barn Dance Show, which
was scheduled to be presented here
for three nights, beginning Thursday
of this week, will be held only one
night, Friday. The play begins at |
eight o’clock tonight and is under the
direction of Mr. Clarke Mosely, of
Jakin, and will also feature the Col’-
donna singers under the direction of
' Mrs. Y. L. Roberts.
Immediately following the show a
’ round dance and square dance will
be held, both formal and informal,
I dress being appropriate. A small ad
mission of 25 cents per couple will
. be charges for the dance and the pub
lic is invited to attend.
Farmers Will I
Vote On Quotas
Next Saturday i
L
' ATHENS, Ga., December G.—-T. R.j
. Breedlove, of the AAA state office to
j day directed a special a peal to Geor
gia farmers to vote in next Saturday’s
cotton marketing guota referendum.
’ He decried the practice of laying
votes “on mantel and forgetting” to
cast them, addtag that lut year,
r * more than 70 per cent ofeligiblc Geor-:
"jgia growers failed to vote on Whether j
* t the quotas should be continued.
j “They would have flocked to the I
jpolls bright and early had it been a j
L i primary or general election’,, he said. |
1 ' “They paid for that privilege. Yet I
’ ■ here is an election ut which it costs I
> them nothing to vote —an election that I
’ may affect their whole economic fu
-5! ture. There isn’t any room in the
1 * farm program for arm chair voters.”
*i Congress has voted the appropria
-1; tion for parity payments in 1942,
Breedlove said. Parity payment rat
’ es for cotton have not been establish
ed yet but those for conservation were
' announced recently. He said there
. was no indication that cotton rates;
would not be set up.
He called particular attention to in
creasinly serious world conditions and
to the fact that cotton prices have
advanced despite mounting surpluses
and urged every cotton grower to vote
j “in order to hold the gains made dur-
I ing the past year.”
! He said cotton had not increased
:in price because of th« war but de
’ spite the war- He stated growers at
tributed much of the advance to the
support given by the 85 per cent pari
ty loans this year.”
The triple-A administrator warned
that “organized opposition to quotas
has arisen in other areas” and called
;on Georgia planters for a full vote
; “if they believe in quotas.”
Every farmers who shared in the
i production of this year’s crop will be
eligible to vote, he said. Polls will be
open in every cotton-growing county
from about 8 a. m. until 5 p. m.
—
Cuke Contracts
Are Now Ready
For Signing
Contract prices for the 1942 Cucum
ber contracts were announced this
; week by the Cairo Pickle Company;
J and contracts are, now available for
■ the farmers of this aectioa to sign.
A nice increase in the price of No. |
1 and No. 2 garde cucumbers is being
offered, white the No. 3 grade will re
main at the same price as paid last
I year. Number 1 cukes will be con-i
. (Tam To No. Two On Back Page.) j
DONALSONVILLE
Capitol of Saminole County
The home of progressive people, pret
ty homes, good churches, splendid
schools and the best of climate.
SINGLE COPIES 5 CENTS
|: The President’s
: ■ •
: War Message
! WASHINGTON, Dec. 11—F<llow-
I ing is the text of the war ms -sage
which President Roosevelt sent to
Congress today:
“On the morning of December 11,
the government of Germany, pursuing
j its course of world conquest, declared
war against the United States.
“The long-konwn and the long
expected has thus taken place. The
forces endeavoring to enslave the en
tire world now are moving toward this
hemisphere.
“Never before has there been a
, greater challenge to life, liberty, and
civilization.
“Delay invites great danger. Rapid
and united effort by all of the peo
ples of the world who are determin
j cd to remain free will insure a world
i victor of the forces of justice and of
righteousness over the forces of sa«
j vagery and of barbarism.
“Italy also has declared war against
; the United States.
“I therefore request the Congress
to recognize a state of war between
i the United States and Germany, and
1 between the United States and Italy.”
- “ f‘; — 1
GOVERNOR TALMADGE
TO BE GUEST OF MR. AND
MBS. J. I CUMMINGS ,Jb
Os intereat lyre is.iby announce-
I ment by Mr. and Mrs. John J. Cum
' mings that they will have as their
! guests next Friday December jnth,
i Governor' Eugene Talmadge, of Geor-
I gia and Governor Spessard L. Holland,
I of Florida.
In connection with their visit here,
i Mr. and Mrs. Cummings have an-
I nouneed that they will entertain at
an informal reception on Friday night
from 8 to 10 p. m. and through this
medium they extend an invitation to
the people of Seminole County and
Southwest Georgia attend and
meet their guests.
OLIVE
THEATRE
Saturday Only
Don Berry, In
“THE APACHE KID"
Monday And Tuesday
Gene Tienery - Randolph Scott, In
“BELLE STAR”
Wednesday
Richard Dix - Ann Rutherford, In
“BAD LANDS OF DAKOTA?
Thursday And Friady
Irene Dunn, In
“UNFINISHED BUSINESS”
MIDGET THEATRE
SATURDAY
Little Tough Guys - Dead End
Kide, In
'MOBTOWN’’
NUMBER 46.