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VOLUME XXVI.
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White, tubbable, scrubbable cot
ton broadcloth was used to make
this sunsuit . worn by Maureen
O’Hara, well-known film star. The
halter design was borrowed direct
from grandmother’s pinafore with
its so-flattering ruffles. The shorts
.are of the new longer length.
Farm Bureau meet
Set For Friday
J. G. Lane, secretary of the local
Farm Bureau, announces that the re
gular monthly meeting of the bureau
will be held on Friday night at 9:30
o’clock (war time) at the Courthouse
.here.
Mr. Lane says “Farm Bureau
rnembereship provides much for very
little. Every farmer can help produc
tion by cooperation. Join the Farm
Bureau and help win the war.”
Mrs. "W. E. Storey, of Lafayette,
is visiting relatives and friends here
this week.
SAFETY
DEPOSIT
BOXES
For Rent
Fire Proof Burglar Proof
$1.20 Per Year
Including Federal Tax
Rent one of our safety deposit
boxes for safe keeping of valuable
papers, Jewelry, Insurance Policies,
Wills, Deeds, etc.
Let Us Show Them To Y’ou.
COMMERCIAL
STATE
BANK
IS $5,000
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Snttalsnnnilb Nnna
Sugar For Canning
Is Now Available
Says Malcom
N. P. Malcom, chairman of the ra
tioning board for Seminole county, an
nounced this week that applications
for sugar for canning and preserv
ing must be made in writing in the
form of a letter to the local rationing
board, and applicants for sugar must
bring their sugar rationing books
with them when applying.
Applicants will be allowed only five
pounds per person per year for can
ning and preserving, and in their ap
plication must set forth what the
sugar is to be used for canning or pre
serving and the amount to be canned
or preserved.
By following these instructions ap
plicants will save themselves and the
local board unnecessary delays.
HOME COMING DAY'
TO BE HELD AT SALEM
Home coming day will be held at
Salem Church Sunday, May 17, 1942.
A combination to observe Mothers
and the Memorial Service will be fea
tured for the day.
Honorable Jno. E. Drake of Bain
bridge has been invited to be guest
speaker for the day. We hope to have
some good singing. The public is cor
dially invited to attend and bring
flowers for the cemetery. Dinner to be
served at noon and bring a well filled
basket.
“Unde” Reese Bell
Well Known Negro
Died Last Friday
Reese Bell, well known Negro resi
dent of Donalsonville, passed away
suddenly last Friday morning while
attending to his duties as janitor at
the local state patrol headquarters. A
heart attack ended his life suddenly.
Appropriate funeral services were
held Monday afternoon.
Bell was one of the oldest residents
of Donalsonville and was quite active
despite his age. He was well known
and liked by many of the citizens of
the town.
PICTURE SHOW TO BE HELD
AT F. D. R. SCHOOL MAY 18TH.
There will be a picture shown at F.
D. R. School Monday night May 18th
at 9:00 o’clock. The name of this
picture is “FOOD FOR FREEDOM”
Every body is invited to attend,
W. C. RUSHING, County Agent,
Arnall Will Speak
Over Station WSB
Saturday Night
With the blasts of his last radio
speech still reverberating among the
hills and valleys of Georgia’s politi
cal circles, Ellis Arnall, the state’s
attorney general and aggressive, out
spoken candidate for the governor's
chair, will go on the air again Satur
day night, May 16, over WSB at 10:15
p. m. for another in a series of talks
to the voters of Georgia.
Arnall lashed out at Talmadgc in
his May 2 radio address and charged
that the governor had opposed the ef
forts of the National Administration
in its efforts to prepare for war; fur
ther, that the governor’s paper, The
Statesman, has served as a propftg a P*
da organ for the Japanese government
and that both had “done their part in
lulling the people to sleep” prior to
the attack on Pearl Harbor.
The charges produced an avalanche
of enthusiastic comment from all
sections of the state. Above all, the
speech proved earlier forecasts that
Amall would pull no punches when he
opened his campaign in earnest.
Though no subject hfts been an
nounced for this Saturday night’s t4lk,
it is expected that Arnall will con
tinue to carry the fight to his op
ponent and continue to accelerate the (
pace of his campaign for governor.
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE COUNTY OF SEMINOLE AND THE CITY OF DONALSONVILLE, GEORGIA
Gasoline Rationing
The Office of Price Administration
announced amounts of gasoline that
motorists in 17 Eastern Seaboard
states will be granted upon presenta
tion of rationing cards from May 15 to
July 1. After July 1 another ratoining
■ system will be placed in effect.
Drivers for pleasure or those who
drive less than six miles a day will re
ceive 21 gallons, or an average of
three gallons a week for the 47-day
period. Motorists who drive from six
to 10 miles a day will receive 33 gal
lons for the period, those who drive
from 10 to 14 miles daily, 45 gallons;
and drivers of 14 or more miles daily,
57 gallons. Persons whose vehicles are
necessary to their employment such
as physicians and ministers, will re
ceive unlimited supplies. The OPA es
timated that about one-third of all
motorists in the area will be classed
as nonessential and limited to three
gallons weekly.
Preliminary figures showed 123
million persons, approximately 91
percent of the total population, regis
tered for sugar rationng. Nearly seven
million persons were refused war ra
tion Book No. 1 because they already
held more than six pound of sugar.
The OPA also reported persons or
businesses needing a typewriter may
rent a used machine or a new portable
directly from any dealer. War Pro
duction Chairman Nelson said emer
gency coal rationing is probable un
less consumers immediately build up
their reserve supplies to “the limit of
storage capacity.”
Production and Conservation
The War Department said the
Chicago Ordnance District is about to
produce more tanks and tractors
monthly than it produced in the en
tire World War I period. The Mari
time Commission reported U. S. Ship
yards delivered 36 merchant vessels
in April Fifty-one vessels, double the
January number, were launched dur
ing the month. The WPB established a
services branch to clear priority and
other problems confronting about 3
million service institutions such as
banks, laundries, etc. The Commerce
Department said income payments to
individuals during March were 21 per
cent higher than a year ago and reach
ed the record annual rate of $lO6 bil
lion.
The War Front
The War Department announced the
planes which recently raided Japan
were U. S. Army bombers, The attack
was made in clear weather, In the mid
dle of the day, and at low altitudes.
The selected targets “were accurately
attacked with demolition and incendi
ary bombs,” the Department said. Jap
anese broadcasts admitted that be
tween 3,000 and 4,000 casualties and
fires raged for 48 hours were caused
Mobile Bridge Ponton
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Massive rubberized cotton pontons like the one above aid ip giving
added mobility and striking power to U. S. armored farces. By the use
of such pontons with heavy steel treadways, new armored force bridges
can be erected faster and carry heavier loads than any other military
bridge in existence.
DONALSONVILLE NEWS FRIDAY, MAY 15TH, 1942.
A WEEK OF .WAR
FROM THE OFFICE OF GOVERNMENT REPORTS
by the raid, the Department said.
The Navy Department said 21 Jap
anese warships were sunk or damaged
in the battle of the Coral Sea with re
latively slight losses to U. S. forces.
U. S. loss will be reported when the
information is without value to the
enemy, the Navy said but all Tokyo
claims of damages inflicted were de
clared without foundation. The Navy
reported 85 Japanese warships and 96
noncombatant vessels had been sunk
or damaged from Pearl Harbor to
! May 11. Resistance of U. S. and Fili
pino troops on Corregidor was finally
overcome. The Navy reported the tor
pedoing of 10 more merchant vessels
off the Atlantic Coast.
Army and Selective Service
First regulations were issued for
the Army Specialist Corps which was
set up to make available to the Army
specially skilled persons not otherwise
eligible for active duty. Officers and
specialists will make up the Corps.
Officers pay will range from $2,600
for second lieutenants to $9,000 for
the Director General, and specialists
pay will range from SI,BOO to $3,500.
The Department said construction has
been started on flight strips adjoining
highways in a strategic area on the
Atlantic seaboard. The War Depart
ment said it cannot answer individual
inquiries as to army casualties or the
whereabouts of army personnel.
Selective Service Headquarters said
occupational questionnaries to deter
mine civilian sklls wll be mailed not
later than May 27 to men of the first
and second registration who are not
„ already ip the armed forces. S. S, Di
rector Hershey instructed local boards
to give careful consideration for defer
ment for individual registrants engag
ed in 141 critical occupations in the
coal and railroad industries as well as
in ship construction and in coastal, in
tercoastal and offshore water trans
portantion. SS headquarters said a re
examination of approximately 100,-
000 men disqualified because of hear
disorders is now advisable, because
functional derangement in many cases
was caused by temporary factors.
Navy
Navy Secretary Knox reported navy
personnel now total 500,000 compared
with 140,000 in the summer of 1940.
He said the Navy will include one mil
lion men by July 1943., The Senate
sent to the White House a bill authori
zing an increase of 200,000 tons in the
U. S. Submarine Fleet. The Navy said
, two new aviation technical schools will
I be constructed at Memphis, Tenn., and
Norman, Okla.—to train 10,000 men
every six months. The training center
for negro enlisted men will’be at the
Naval Training Center, Great Lakes,
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California “Dimout” . „
The OCD ordered a the
California coast from the. Oregorrbor
der to Santa Maria, California', for—
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SAVINGS PROGRAM
—Courtesy United Feature Syndicate,
Faculty Complete
For Next Term
At Local School
C. B. Rickman, principal of the Don
alsonville High School, announced this
week that teachers for the 1942-43
session had been selected by the board
of trustees and that the faculty was
virtually complete, although some
changes are expected due to war con
ditions.
Very few changes have been made
in the faculty that closed the term
here last week.
The complete list is as follows:
Elementary School
Miss Louise Lane, Mrs. M. T. Sim
mons, Mrs. J. D. Rabon, Mrs. Mary N.
Kirkland, Mrs. Phil Yarbrough, Miss
Nell Wheeler, Miss Vesta Minter, Miss
Mollie King, Miss Maude Bragg, Miss
Merle Reed, Mrs. Mercian Minter,
Miss Doris Drake, Miss Irene Adams,
Miss Donnelle Aspinwall, Mrs. Curtis
Roberts.
High School
Mrs. J. B. Thomas, Miss Adele Min
ter, Miss Clyde Ward, Miss Henrietta
Carson, M. P. Stein, Miss Martha Car
ter, Mrs. J. I. Hickson, E. C. Davis,
C. B. Rickman.
Springfield School
Destroyed By Fire
BLAKELY, Ga., May 11.—The
Springfield school located 15 miles
south of Blakely was destroyed by fire
Sunday afternoon at 3 o’clock. Origin
of the fire was unknown. The school
building and the fixtures were a total
loss, Superintendent of Schools B. R.
B. Davis said. The loss was estimated
at SB,OOO. The Springfield school was
a wooden building and was compara
tively new, having been rebuilt after
being destroyed by fire in 1935,
This is the second Early county
school building to be destroyed by fire
within a year. Lightning struck the
Blakely building last June destroying
it by fire. About a year previous to
this fire the Union school building, a
few miles north of Blakely burned.
Is Visitor Here
Attorney J. H. Smithwick, of Moul
trie, candidate for congressman from
the second Congressional District,
was a visitor here Tuesday in the in
terest of his campaign. Mr. Smith
wick is opposing Congressman E. E.
Cox for re-election in the primary to
be held in September.
Mr. Smith wick was a former re
presentative in the National Congress
from the adjoinpi* district in Florida,
although be states that he is a native
of Georgia and has spent most of his
life in Georgia.
He states that his formal announce
ment will come at an early date.
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MAKE EVERY PAY DAY
|f bond day
Fl, JOIN THE PAY-ROLL SAVINGS PLAN
SINGLE COPIES 5 CENTS
Fire Alarm Sounds
Three Times In
Two Days Here
A siege of fire alarms, three in two
days, has been sounded in Donalson
ville this week, the first coming Sun
day afternoon when a Georgia Stages
Bus arriving here was fount) to be
afire around the carburetor. The fire
was quickly extinguished without da
mage. •* . ,/
The second alarm was sounded Sun
day night whan al»n. at-the hmne of
Mrs. R. F. Kinley was destroys by
fire and a quantity of corn was lost.
The barn was ablaze all over when
discovered and no effort to save the
building was made.
Monday night brought the third
alarm when the peanut shelling plant
of Red Chandler just east of the city
limits was damaged only slightly by
a fire which originated in some empty
sacks was discovered.
DANCE !
Announcing the last of a series of
Spring Dances, at the Club House,
Tuesday Night, May 19th, 10 p. m.
Wartime. Admission 65c, Students 25",
Ladies Free.
OLIVE
THEATRE
Saturday Only
Bill Elliott, In
HANDS ACROSS THE ROCKIES’
Monday and Tuesday
Walter Pidgeon - Maureen O’Hara
In
“How Green Was My Valley”
Wednesday Only
Jinx Falkenburg and Buddy
Rogers, In
“SING FOR YOUR SUPPER”
Thursday and Friday
Jane Withers, In
“YOUNG AMERICA”
Midget Theatre
Saturday Only
J. Edward Bromberg - Osa Massen
In
“THE DEVIL PAYS OFF”
NUMBER 16.