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UNITED STATES WAR
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SI.OO A YEAR IN ADVANCE
VOLUME XXVI.
Arnall, Russell, Cox
Winners In Primary
Unit Vote For Arnall Stands at 233 to 91
For Governor Talmadge With
Returns Incomplete.
SEMINOLE GIVES NICE MAJORI
TIES TO WINNERS IN
MOST RACES.
After trailing his opponent in early
returns from Wednesday’s Guberna
torial primary, Attorney General Ellis
Arnall developed strength as county
site and city returns came in and, ac
cording to radio reports Thursday, had
established a commanding lead to as
sure his nomination for governor.
Incomplete and unofficial returns
credited Arnall with canying 91
counties and 233 unit votes, while
tiovernor Talmadge carried 42 coun
ties for a total unit vote of 91. In
popular votes Arnall was credited
with IGO,OOO to Governor Talmadge’s
130,000. The returns are not yet com
plete but are said to be sufficiently
reliable to assure Attorney General
Arnall the nomination, only 20G unit
votes being necessary to elect.
One county tied in popular vote, the
two unit votes being divided between
the two candidates.
In the race for U. S. Senator, Rich
ard •£>. Russell, incumbent, command
ed such a wide lead over his opponent
W. D. Upshaw, that Senator Russell
is assured the nomination. Late re
ports indicated that Upshaw had not
carried a county.
Congressman E. E. Cox, opposed
for re-election by J. H. Smithwick, of
Moultrie, was reported leading by a
majority of more than 2 to 1. One
county was carried by Smithwick, it
is said, this being his home county of
Colquitt.
Seminole county gave Attorney
'General Ellis Arnall an overwhelming
majority, the final tabulation in Semi
nole showing 758 votes for Arnall and
333 votes for Governor Talmadge.
Mr. Arnall carried four of the five
precincts in the county, all by sub
stantial majorities.
Senator Russell was also given an
■even greater majority in Seminole,
rolling up a total of 867 votes to 118
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OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE COUNT Y OF SEMINOLE AND THE CITY OF DONALSONVILLE, GEORGIA
for his opponent, W. D. Upshaw.
Reprsentative John L. Drake was
nominated for the General Assembly
without opposition.
All executive committeemen were
! re-elected in Seminole, one district,
Rock Pond, naming E. A. Trawick
to fill the vacancy on the board there.
J. E. Johnson, of the Donalsonville
district, G. L. Earnest, of Spring
I Creek district, W. C. Atkinson, of
I Steam Mill and J. M. Cross, of Iron
City, were those members of the com
mittee re-elected.
The Seminole County vote sor 1 all
officials having opposition, was as fol
lows:
For U. S. Senator:
Richard B. Russell 867
Will D. Upshaw 118
For Governor:
Ellis Arnall 758
Eugene Talmadge 333
For Comptroller-General:
E. B. Dykes 403
Homer C. Parker 575
For Attorney General:
Randall Evans, Jr. 395
T. Grady Head —» 617
For Prison and Parole Commission:
I Mary D. Goudelock 346
Vivian L. Stanley 635
For Associate Justice Supreme Court:
J Samuel C. Atkinson 534
J. M. Bartow Bloodworth 439
For Congressman:
E. E. Cox 791
IJ. H. Smithwick 201
Huge Crop Seen In
Cotton Forecast
CROP ESTIMATE IS PLACED AT
14,028,000 BALES FOR
YEAR 1942.
WASHINGTON, Sept. B—The agri
, culture department today forecast this
year’s cotton crop at 14,028,000 bales,
iof 500 pounds gross weight, based on
the con dition of the crop September
1, which was 79 percent of a normal,
Indications a month ago were for a
crop of 13,744,000 bales last year and
I the ten-year (1931-1940)) production
averaged 13,109,000 bales.
The condition of the crop on Sep
tember 1 compared with 65 per cent
of a normal a year ago, and a ten
| year September 1 average condition
of 63.
The indicated yield of line cotton is
i 289.3 pounds to the acre, compared
with 266.7 pounds indicated a month
i ago, 231.9 pounds produced last year,
and a ten year average yield of 215.00
pounds.
Tha department placed the acre
age for harvest )hjs year, after de
• termining the abandonment sjpee July
II was 3.0 per cent, at 23,283,000 aerps,.
The acreage in cultivation July 1 was
23,544,000. Harvested acreage last
year was 22,238,000 and in 1940 it
was 23,861,000.
The census bureau reported that
cotton of this vear’s growth ginned
to September 1 totaled 737,886 run
ning bales, counting round as half
.bales and excluding linters, compared
with 505,720 bales a year ago, and
605,764 bales two years ago.
Sergeant's VYiß.iam and Glenn A.
■ Martin of the U. 8. Army Air Corps
i were visitors of their parents Mr, ami
Mrs. G. A. Martin of Iron City this
week.
BORN—To Mr. and Mrs. Albert
Blackburn a 7 1-2 pound son, Thurs
day, September 3rd. He has been giv
en the name Albert Wayne.
DONALSONVILLE NEWS FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER, 11TH, 1942.
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ATTY. GEN. ELLIS ARNALL
School Hours Are
Fixed By Board
NO SATURDAY SESSIONS TO BE
HELD FOR PRESENT, SAYS
SUPT. MALCOM.
The Seminole County Schools, with
the exception of several Negro insti
tution, will open their doors for the
1942**43 term next Monday morning
at 9:45 o’clock, Supt, N. P. Malcom
stated this week.
The hours adopted for opening and
closing the schools was announced
as beginning daily at 9:45 a. m. and
close at 4 p. m. The lunch or noon
recess will be from Ip. m. to 2 p. in.
All hours are war time, he stated.
Pupils will not be required t~ attend
school on Saturdays fur the' present:
Mr, Malcom states, and no plans for
Saturday sessions have as yet been
discussed, he states,
A shortage of teachers still exists
in the schools. Mr. Malcom states. One
teacher in the Iron City and Donal
sonville schools are yet to be secured,
and the F. D. R. school is in need of
four additional teachers. Mr. Mal
com states that he is making every
effort to secure the necessary teach
ers by the opening of school next
week, but he points out that there is
an acute shortage of teachers all over
the state,
In discussing the shortage of teach
ers, Mr, Malcom handed The News
copies of resolutions passed by the lo
cal board at its session last week, in
which it is revealed that the low pay
offered teachers is the reason for such
an acute shortage. Defense projects
and commercial employment are tak
ing many teachers away from the
schools as a result of more attractive
salaries.
The Board of Education, in reso
lutions published elsewhere in this is
sue of The News, urge state apd fed
eral authorities to make provisions to
increase salaries of teachers that the
schools may function with capable
personnel. Higher salaries must he
provided, they state, if accredited in
structors are to be secured. Salaries ■
now being paid are no more than the ■
teachers received several years ago,
it is said.
MATINEE HOURS CHANGED
AT OLIVE THEATRE.
Matinees at the Olive Theatre wdl
begin at 4:15 p. m. on Monday, Wed
nesday and Friday beginning next
week, it is announced.
The change was made necessary in
order to cooperate with the local
school hours, the schools dismissing
in the afternoon at 4 o’clock.
The public should bear in mind the
change of hours.
HEAVY RAIN FELL HERE ON
WEDNESDAY.
Donalsonville and a good portion
of Seminole county experienced one
of the hardest rainfalls of the year
on Wednesday, more than two inches
of rajn falling in less than two hours I
in the afternoon. Thg o Pi c i a ! pain
gage showed 2.33 jnphes,
Only one time this year has the
precipitation exceeded this total in a
twenty-four hour period, this being
in June, when 2.52 inches was regis
tered.
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GOV. EUGENE TALMADGE
Cotton Crop To Be
Short In Seminole
PEANUTS ARE MOVING SLOWLY
THOUGH EXCESS MARKET IS
NOT YET OPEN.
Indications this week were to the
effect that Seminole county would har
vest its smallest crop of cotton this
year since 1923, according to esti
mates by local cotton ginners.
The low yield is predicted in the
face of the government report on
Tuesday forecasting a crop of 14,028,-
000 bales for the nation.
Up to Thursday noon ginnings in
the county had not passed 1200 bales
and with ginnings slowing down—
many having already ginned their en
*ire crop— rudiratwns are that the to
tal will not exceed 1800 bales, less
than the low year of 1939.
Excessive rainfall during the ma
turing season in July was the main
cause of the drop in the yield, pnd
further rains since the cotton began
opening has caused it to rot in the
bolls which were only partially open.
The grade is poor in practically all
instances, local buyers, state. The
price for middling cotton was around
18 cents Wednesday, but the grades
offered received top prices of ‘l7 1-2
cents, while some graded lower and
the price was as low as 17 cent, it is '
said,
The prjee sagged Tuesday following
the government report, which wa*
larger than the general trade expect
ed, though cotton seed held firm at
around S4O to 47.50 per ton, depending
on the quality. Most cotton seed sold
here are damaged and the average
price received is around S4O per ton.
Peanuts are moving slowly to mar
ket, quota peanuts being the only ones
salable at the present time. The
GF A purchase of excess peanuts will
not begin until about two weeks, it is
said, it requiring sqmptipie ygt for
tho association to complete the set-up
of its program,
BAPTIST CHURCH TO HOLD AN
“HONOR SERVICE" SUNDAY
Next Sunday at 12:00 noon the Don
alsonville Baptist Church will take
its preaching hour in the Dedication
and Honor Services for their soldier
boys now in the armed service of the
U. S. army and navy and other field
of the government fighting forces.
Patriotic songs will be sung by the
the well-organized choir of that
church. The Christian, the U. S. flag,
the service flag, together with the
Bible will be honored in proper form,
by the salute and pledging of (hy-.self
unto them,
Soldiers in uniform will escort the
flags, both U. S. and service flag. An
honor sermon will be delivered by Pas
tor Timmerman together with the
hanging of the service Flag on the
permanent wall of the church as a
permanent fixture of the church in
years to come.
All parents of the boys in service
are urged to attend the service and
be recognized as parents of opr brave
fighting-for-frecdqqi, men.
It is great honor to be the parents
of such men as today ape righting for
Freedom of speech, freedom of reli
gion and freedom of conscience.
Come Everybody To This Most Out
standing Service.
12:00 noon Sunday September 13.
» WEEK OF WAR
FROM THE OFFICE OF GOVERNMENT REPORTS
President Roosevelt asked Congress
I to enact by October 1 Legislation un
i der which he would be “specifically
j authorized to stabilize the cost of
living, including the price of all farm
commodities.” In a special message to
the legislators, the President said
“inaction on youi’ part by that date
will leave me with an inescapable re
sponsibility to the people of this coun
; try to see to it that the war effort
; is no longer imperiled by threat of
! economic chaos. In the event that
; the Congress should fail to act, and
i act adequately, I shall accept the re
| sponsibility, and I will act.”
Mr. Roosevelt said the purpose of
! the Legislation “should be to hold
farm prices at parity, or at levels of
a recent date, whichever is higher.”
He said “at the same time that farm
prices are stabilized, wages can and
will be stabilized also. This I will do.”
i The President recalled that two
points of his original seven-point anti
inflation program required legislation
—” an adequate tax program, and a
law permitting the fixing of price
ceilings on farm products at parity
prices.” He said delay in enacting this
i Legislation “has now reached the
point of danger so our whole economy
.... We cannot hold the actual cost
j of food and clothing down to approxi
i mately the present level beyond Octo
ber 1. But no one can give any assur
ances that the cost of living can be,
held down after that date. . .” He re-i
newed his request of last April for an I
individual net income limitation of
$25,000.
The War Front
After ten straight raids without a
loss, two U. S. Flying forti'ess bomb
ers were reported as missing Septem
ber 7 following the greatest Ameri-
I can aerial attack of the war on Nazi
: Occupied France. Three squadrons of
i the big bombers attacked the Air
; frame factory at Meaulte, near Albert,
for the second time, while a fourth
squadron bombed the St. Omer Air
field. In the raids the fortresses de
stroyed five enemy fighters and pro-'
bably destroyed 13 more, and damaged j
another 25. The bombers were escort
ed by 400 allied fighters, three of
| which were shot down.
Gen. MacArthur’s Australian head
quarters rapiMtod September 7 that
heavy allied bombing planes attacked
a Japanese cargo ship Southeast of
New Guinea which was believed to
have been attempting to supply the
trapped enemy forces in the Milne
Bay Area. Australians were mopping
up the remnants of Japanese forces in |
this area. U. S. Army Air Forces in
China, continuing their offensive,
scored a direct hit l, “ Japanese Mili
tary Headquarters in Nanchang, sank
at least seven Steamers, blasted a Rail
way Station and Warehouse and straf
ed a troop train.
Two Navy Vosaefc. the Destroyer
Blue apd the Auxiliary transport Col
houn, hav® been lost in action in the
South Pacific in the past two wbeks,
the Nary announced. There were few
casualties. The Navy also announced
the sinking of nine more United Na
tions merchant vessels by enemy sub-.|
marines in the Atlantic.
War Aims And Foreign Relations
President Roosevelt, in an address
Broadcast to an International stadent |
■ assembly in Washington and short
waved to other parts of thfc world,
, stated the war is “go(»ig be long
and hard and htt-tW (hut) this time
, we shall know how to make full use
of Victory" to build a better world.
He said the Government will see to
i it that men returning from the fronts
can resume their interrupted careers
and education and that work is pro
vided for those willing and able to
■ work.
Reciprocal Lend-Lease ukl to the
U. S. already cover* a raage as wide
as the requirements and geography of
a Global War, and is being provided
to this Country on the sayo* basis as
we are providing I.vmi-Lease help to
other Countries, the Office of War
Information reported. Such aid is be
ing provided without dollar payment
under the terms of master agreements
with Countries receiving U. S. Lend-
Lease help. Reciprocal Lend-Lease
aid “for American forces abroad. . -
ranges from squadrons of spitfires to
10% OF INCOME
!S 01R QUOTA
WAR BOMBS
SINGLE COPIES 5 CENTS
new fan belts for army trucks—from
building airdromes and Naval bases
to “D” ration chocolate bars and ba
nanas at the soldiers, mess—form con
voy protection for U. S. troopships
awiving in British waters to filling
the gas tanks of U. S. ferry planes at
airports newly laid out in jungles or
deserts,” the OWI said. The President
announced a special U. S. technical
mission will leave for Brazil soon to
assist the Brazilian Government in ex
pansion of its war machine.
Army And Selective Service
Assistant Secretary of War McCoy
said that between February 1 and
August 30 U. S. Army planes destroy
ed 234 Japanese planes in the air, com
pared with American losses of 109.
This record, together with the “fly
ing tigers.” Record of 218 Japanese
planes destroyed as against losses of
84, is due mainly to the performance
of the P. 40 fighters, he said. The
Army said it has developed a system
of technical inspection and mainten
ance supervision of aircraft that is un
doubtedly the finest in the world.
The War Department sent 36,000
dependents, allowance checks totaling
$4,500,000 to relatives and dependents
of enlisted men in the four lower grad
es of the Service. Selective Service
Headquarters instructed State SS
boards to place their calls so that most
men right now will come from local
boards with the most single men ov
men with dependents other than wives
and children.
Navy And Shipbuilding
Navy Secretray Knox said the sub
marine Menace “is not by any means
solved,” but there has been a “steady
deminutitm of ships suTik Off"dur'Tfwh
shores.” A shipbuilding compilation
for Labor Day showed 174 launchings
and 49 Keel layings during the day for
many kinds and sizes of combat and
cargo ships. The Maritime Commis
sion reported 68 Vessels were put into
Service in August and there is “every
indication” the goal of three complet
ed ships a day will be reached in Sep
tember.
Rai toning
The War Production Board released
50,00(1 of the refrigerators which have
been frozen in the hands of dealers
and distributors since February 14 for
sale to tiie general public after find-
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