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FOR VICTORY
UNITED STATES DEFENSE
BONDS • STAMPS
SI.OO A YEAR IN ADVANCE
VOLUME XXVI.
States Schools
Face Collapse,
Amall Warns
Attorney General Ellis Arnall, in a J
campaign speech for governor over
WSB last Saturday night, warned the
citizens of Georgia that the only way
to avert a complete collapse of the
state’s university system is to defeat
Talmadge in the coming election.
Arnall enumerated the long list of ■
accrediting associations which had al
ready dropped Georgia from their:
lists, and pointed out that if Talmadge !
were reelected, students who are now ,
still undecided would begin leaving the '
state’s colleges and universities in a I
paralyzing number.
Reminding voters that Talmadge is
relying heavily on the “negro” issue to
save him from defeat in September.
Arnall predicted that the governor
would find that Georgians were not
fools, and that they would not be
hoodwinked by his campaign cry of
“Nigger, Nigger”.
“We know that no one except a de
magogue is going to talk about put
tinging the negroes in white schools,”
Arnall said. “It is absurd and complete
ly ridiculous, for Georgia’s state con
stitution forbids it.”
Talmadge has also been using the
war as a “blind”, Arnall claimed.
“The governor has undertaken to
hide his misdeeds behind his ‘lip ser
vice’ to the President, behind a con
venient cloak of patriotism. Yet in my
last address I called attention to the
.fact that Talmadge has shown him
self to be opposed to the kind of de
mocracy for which our nation is fight
ing.”
Arnall pledged himself, with the
support of the friends of education, to
see to it .that no governor in the fu
ture should be able to use Georgia’s
vdursißmud system for. juditigalJMir
poses.
“My first offical act as governor of
Georgia,” he promised, “will be to in
augurate and set in motion a program
designed to free our state institutions
from political influence, domination
and control.”
Miss Eula Dickenson has returned
to her home here after spending sev
eral weeks in Fordum, Tenn.
Mr. and Mrs. Hugh D. Broome and
Hugh D. Jr., of Albany, spent the
week-end here with Dr. and Mrs. Jno.
I. Spooner.
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Fire Damages Entire
Block In Colquitt
Business District
COLQUITT, Ga. May 19—A $50,000 .
fire, worst here in 22 years, gutted
nearly an entire block of the business
district starting at 1:30 a. m. today,
and although brought under control ’
many hours later in the morning, still
was smoldering in places early this
i afternoon under the watchful eyes of
• firemen from two cities, Colquitt and,
i Bainbridge.
Apparently starting in the rear of l
I the Colquitt Radio Shop, located un-'
jder the second-story Wilko Hotel An- j
' nex which runs half-way down the !
I block, the conflagration soon shot up- ■
j ward to the hotel rooms, spreading ;
panic among the occupants, all of i
I whom escaped in scanty night clothing ■
and few of whom sustained slight in
juries.
The block, which houses the Wilko
Hotel, the annex, the mayor’s office,
the offices of two doctors, the Col
quitt Radio Shop, two huge buildings
of the Colquitt Motor Company, the
Colquitt Theater, the Dozier Drug
I Company and the Citizens Bank, soon
i became a roaring inferno which the
local fire department could not control
with a 70-foot hose which continually
broke under the pressure.
Help Summoned.
Aid was summoned from the Bain
bridge and Blakely fire departments,
but by the time these units arrived,
the wind had switched and kept the
flames from leaping from one struc
ture to another and perhaps eventual
ly consuming the entire business dis
trict.
As it was, the damage, the majority
of which was not protected by insur
ance, was listed as follows.
Clothes and other belongings of
persons in the Wilko Hotel annex;
many men, women and children es
caped with nothing more than the
night clothes they were wearing.
Equipment of the offices of Drs.
W. C. Hays and W. H. Houston.
Equipment of the mayor’s office and
radio shop.
Eighteen automobiles and trucks
nine new', of the Colquitt Motor Com
pany.
Water damage to the theater.
The fire was first discovered by
Raymond Kimbrell, radio shop owner
who lives with his family in the annex.
By the time the smoke and flames
had aroused him, he and his wife and
children barely had time to escape
after spreading the,alarm with their
shots.
Hilton Jones of Blakely and Colquitt
owner of the motor company, said in
surance covered his stock and fixtur
es of his plant. As far as could be de
termined, this was the only insurance
protection of the fire.
Commenting on the defective hose
which delayed local efforts to stem
the blaze, the Mayor said to day that
i new hose had been ordered weeks ago,
but that through national defense
priorities, etc., had been unobtainable
to date.
The Bainbridge fire department re
| mained on the scene throughout the
, day, sending in a new morning shift,
Ito prevent the embers from spreading
and causing further damage,
Colquitt’s fire alarm is a loud
sounding of a horn, and even at the
fire, hundreds of citizens clad lightly
in night clothes answered the sum
mons and helped fight the fury of
the flames.
The Colquitt business section is laid
off in a square; the side which burn
ed was the estern portion, laid out in
a north-south direction.
Sale Os Lumber
Frozen Says Jones
Jones Lumber Company, local con
cern, announced this week that sale
of all lumber had been frozen and that
they could not fill any orders except
for the army or navy defense pro
jects.
People who are planning to use any
lumber in repairs or. for new con
struction should get the facts before
making their plans, it is pointed out.
BUY DEFENSE BONDS
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE COUNTY OF SEMINOLE AND THE CITY OF DONALSONVILLE, GEORGIA
The White House reported the Na
tion’s vast cargo ship construction
program is on schedule and “the
i American people can be assured that
the shipyards will do the job assigned
to them.’ The statement said ship
yards delivered 120 new vessels in the
I first 130 days of this year, 20 per
| cent more than were built in all of
■ 1941, and the production peak has not
i yet been reached.
! American shipyards are building
I merchant vessels faster than ever be-
■ fore in the history of the world, the
! White House said. Cargo ships are
i being built in less than one-half the
time originally allotted. “The progress
made thus far is easing our shipping
problem, but there will be a shortage
of ships until sinkings throughout the
world are brought under better con
trol and the shipbuilding program
gets into full production,” the state
ment said.
Army-Navy War Review
A joint Army-Navy communique re
viewed the progress of the war to
' date. The communique said that dur
ing a period of preparation for offen
sive action, a “number of successful
thrusts” at the Japanese had worked
a “lasting effect upon the strategic
’ situation.” Among such strokes it
’ listed the naval raids on the Gilbert
and Marshall Islands, Wake Island,
Marcus Island, and the bombing of
| Japan itself. It included also the de-
I struction of Japanese ships in the
battles of the Coral Sea and Macas
sar Straights, the accomplishments
of American submarines in the far
Pacific and the numerous raids by
: ; Amercian planes based on Aunta-alm.
: ■ The joint communique also reported
‘ j that during the first three weeks of
! the war, about 600,000 American
! troops moved to battle stations, many
• • of them overseas. Unified command is
i now in effect in every theatre of war.
* ; The defense of the Philippines, the
| communique said, “demonstrated the
I I comparative weakness of the Japanese
’; as an individual fighter,” a factor
I which “alone forebades disaster for
tho enemy Japanese in the future
when the battle is met on terms ap
proaching equality.”
• j Cost of Living
1 The Office of Price Administration
' said the general ceiling on retail pric
! is, now in effect, is expected to cut
the cost of living by 1 1-2 percent. The
j Labor Department reported that by
- mid-April families of wage earners
’ and lower-salaried workers had to
’ spend $147 to buy the same things for
’ which they spent $1 before August
‘ 1939.
Price Administrator Henderson
' said the American standard of living
I will be reduced to the depression-bot-
- tom level by the end of 1943. Civilian
’ purchasing power will be about three
: times the 1932 figure while available
: consumer goods will decrease 24 per
cent during 1942. To aid the anti-in-
’ flation program, representatives of
‘ the 550,000 shipyard workers in the
’ nation’s private shipyards agreed to
• relinquish approximately SBO million
in wage increases, the WPB reported.
' i Rationing
: j The OPA announced gasoline card
’ i rationing in Oregon and Washington
’■will begin June 1 and continue until
■July 1, when a coupon rationing plan
I will be placed in effect. The WPB re-
I I stricted deliveries of fuel oil and gaso
’' line to the two West Coast states to
1 ! 50 percent of normal deliveries, effec-
i tive immediately for oil and June 1
for gasoline.
Petroleum Coordinator Ickes said
there is no immediate need of curtail
ing deliveries of petroleum products
i elsewhere in the country. The OPA
removed the 50-mile zone west of the
East Coast rationing area where
motorists from the rationed area were
i to have been required to present cards
. i for gasoline.
Local ration boards will be directed
’ to open their records to public inspect
. I ion as soon as practicable, the OPA
■ announced. The agency also said gaso
line dealers will be responsible for
; checking ration cards to determine
j whether they have enough units to
' cover purchases, to see that the de-1
DONALSONVILLE NEWS FRIDAY, MAY 22ND, 1942.
» WEEK OF WAR
FROM THE OFFICE OF GOVERNMENT REPORTS
scription on them apply to the cars
for which they are presented, and to
destroy or mark used ration card
units. Commerce Secretary Jones an
nounced the Reconstruction Finance
Corporation will make $l5O million
available for purchase of tires held by
consumers. The OPA authorized
manufacturers to ship adults bicycles
to distributors and said it will begin
bicycle rationing in about three weeks.
Civilian Supply
The WPB notified stove manufac
turers whose sales for the year ended
June 30, 1941, totaled more than $2
million, as well as those in any of 39
“labor shortage areas,” that they can
not produce domestic cooking and
heating stoves after July 31. Manufac
turers authorized to produce stoves
were limited to certain aproved types
and to monthly iron and steel use of
70 percent of the average they used
in the year ended June 30, 1941. New
installations of air conditioning and
commercial refrigeration equipment
were banned, except for war and es
sential civilian requirements. Anti
freeze production was limited to 50
percent of 1941 output. Manufacture
of colored sheets must cease July 1.
The Office for Eemergency Manage
ment said an average of 3 1-2 percent
of all American motorists are wearing
irreplaceable rubber from their tires
each month. To date about 5 percent
of U. S. automobiles are laid up for
lack of tires, OEM reported. The Of
fice also said 20 million of the 28 mil
lion passenger cars will go off the
roads within 12 to 15 months unless
car 1 pooling can be made effective on
a‘nation scale. The WPB said thi
wholehearted response of the Ameri
can people to the wastepaper salvagi
campaign has brought an unusual sur
plus of the material. The Board asked
continued collection, however, to meet
large requirements for the manufac
ture of paperboard containers.
Eastern Military Area
Eastern Defense Commander Drum
proclaimed all East Coast states from
Maine to Florida to be the Eastern
military area—primarily to enforce
effectively the dimout restrictions to
safeguard shipping. The proclama
tion said the protection of United
Nations commerce from enemy attack
involved the effective control of arti
ficial lighting along the Atlantic and
Gulf Coasts and for a “reasonable
distance inland.”
The Armed Forces
President Roosevelt said American
forces are getting into the World
fight more and more, ami in new plac
es all the time. He said the increasing
ly far flung fight calls for increasing
numbers of transport planes to enable
the Army and Navy to get to the ra-
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it ponton, not “pontoon”, as you do.
Ponton bridges cost all the way
from $15,000 to $700,000. The smaller
bridge using individual metal pontons
is pictured here. The largest ponton
bridge is 1,080 feet long and is made
of rubber instead of aluminum.
One small bridge has a weight
capacity of 25 tons, using about 2,000
individual metal pontons. The small
est is used only to take troops over
smaller streams. But whether our
army uses the smaller or largest
ponton, our engineers need plenty of
them. If you and every American
invests at least 10 per cent of income
in War Bonds every pay day we can
supply our fighting forces with these
essentials to a victorious war.
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Cuke Market
Operation Begins
Here This Week
The Cairo Pickle Co., anounced this
week that its receiving station for cu
cumbers was opened on Wednesday
and that the station would be operated
on Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and
Saturday until June Ist, when it will
be operated daily after that date. Un
til June Ist, the station will open at
1:00 P. M., beginning June Ist, from
10:00 A. M. each day.
Mr. John Howard of Iron City will
manage the Donalsonville station and
C. L. Drake will manage the Iron City
station.
With reference to picking cucum
bers, the Pickle Co., advises the farm
ers as follows:
“Proper or improper picking of cu
cumbers can mean the difference of
profit or loss on this crop. As all of
you know, you get the best price for
No. 1 grade of cucumbers, which is
a well formed cucumber not over 1”
in diameter. In fact, you get SIX times
as much for a cucumber under 1” in
diameter as you do for a cucumber be
tween 1 1-2” to 2 ” in diameter, which
is the No. 3 grade.
“Also when you try to pick the No.
1 grade, you will naturally get a large
amount of the No. 2 grade cucumbers,
and No. 2 grade will bring you three
times as much as the 1 1-2” to 2” size.
“By picking close and often, which
will give you a large percentage of
No. 1 and No. 2 grades, you derive the
following benefits:
“1. Selling your cucumbers at the
two higher prices, which are six and
three times higher than the price paid
for the large No. 3 grade.
“2. You prevent your vines from
quickly wearing themselves out pro
ducing large cucumbers. By keeping
the large cucumbers off the vines,
your will bear one to two weeks long
er than when allowed to load them
selves with large cucumbers. Also by
picking small cucumbers, you will not
have but a very small percentage that
will be thrown out because of being
oversize. -
“3. If you pick the small cucumbers,
very close, you will make as many |
pounds per acre as the one who allows
his cucumbers to get large before
picking. Your vines will make a cer
tain amount of cucumbers, and if you ,
keep them from getting large, this
will cause your vines to produce a
much greater number of small cu
cumbers, which results in your selling
actually as many pounds of small cu-'
cumbers as you would if all of them
were large, and you, of course, are get
ting much higher price for your small,
cucumbers.
“4. If you keep your vines from be
coming loaded with large cucumbers,
you also will cause your vines to pro
duce a much large percentage of
straight, formed cucumbers. A heavy
load of large cucumbers on your vin
es will cause many crooks and mis
rbc.ped cucumbers.
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BOND DAY
JOIN THE PAY-ROLL SAVINGS PLAN
SINGLE COPIES 5 CENTS
New Switchboard
Is Installed In
Telephone Office
Installation of a new two-position
switchboard in the local telephone of
fice, which was completed on Monday
of this week, has resulted in a mark
ed improvment in the service. The
new board was installed without ser
ious interruption and two operators
are now employed at the boards dur
ing the peak hours of business.
i The feature Os the new boards is a
new signal system which notifies
the operator when the call is ended if
the parties will ring off. By ringing
off at the end of a call much quicker
service can be rendered to the sub
scribers.
The local exchange building has
been remodeled on the interior and is
now quite attractive.
As a result of the new boards and
the improved service, the exchange is.
one of which the people of the com
munity should justly feel proud and
appreciate.
Mrs. O. C. Rogers visited relatives,
in Atlanta last week.
OLIVE
THEATRE
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Saturday Only
Gene Autry - Smiley Burnette, In
“SIERRA SUE”
Monday and Tuesday
Tyrone Power, In
“SON OF FURY”
Wednesday Only
“Marry the BOSS’S Daughter”
With Robert Preston - Nancy Kelly
Thursday and Friday
Fredric March - Loretta Y’oung, In
“BEDTIME STORY”
Midget Theatre
Saturday Only
Carole Landis and George
Montgomery, In
“CADET GIRL”
NUMBER 17.