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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. llflD ata 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. If . MAXIMUM U II S’ W/ INSURANCE NMr O I lleSlWt-. FOR EACH AWI W I V** OCPOMTOR W/ ££ I PAY BY CHECK- One of the most valuable pri vileges enjoyed by the aver i citizen in this country is ithat of paying bilLs by check, safely, conveniently and at low cost. It is the American way. I Open a checking account with us today. I Commercial State Bank Donalsonville, Georgia ! This Bank Is A Member Os The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. BnitaUnttinlb Stan WAR DECLARED ON U. S. JAPAN FIRST FOLLOWED, BY ITALY, GERMANY w /Qi j O > < < '•> W z ® , M- i . 18# . ¥ 4 w ■ V ,K ' J * . dV JI 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 ’ ; t 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.