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UNITED STATES WAR
BONDS-STAMPS
SI.OO A YEAR IN ADVANCE
VOLUME XXVI.
SCRAP DRIVE TO BE RENEWED
WITH SCHOOLS CO OPERATING
Need Is Desperate
To Keep Production
Lines Moving
ENTIRE COUNTY IS ASKED TO
HELP; PLANS TO BE MADE
NEXT WEEK.
Plans for a renewed scrap salvage
drive in Donalsonville and Seminole
county, with the full cooperation of
the schools, the churches and local
civic organizations took shape this
week when the local Lions Club voted
to put their efforts to the drive to
make it a success.
Donald M. Nelson, chairman of the
War Production Board, has appealed
to the newspapers of America to save
a critical situation in the matter of
scrap, and Editor Ellison Dunn call
ed upon the Lions Tuesday to assist
in planning the drive and making it a
success.
The effort to supply scrap metal
•which is essential for the production
of steel has fallen down. The situa
tion is more than critical—it is des
perate. In the emergency, the gov
ernment has called on American news
papers to marshal their forces in an
effort to secure from every community
in America a pile of scrap equivalent
to one hundred pounds of scrap—iron,
copper, etc. —for each man, woman
and child living in that community.
This means that some 400 tons, or
800,000 pounds for Seminole county’s
8,000 people, is the goal. This no
doubt is a remote possibility as it is
generally believed that no such large
.amount exists in the county> but the
people of the county can at least make
- awf.abt?■ that whirl ti.t'y have.
While the Lions Club is expected to
direct the drive, local schools will be
asked to enroll all pupils in the effort.
Pupils will be asked to collect all
scrap at their homes and notify their
teachers, giving the locality of their
homes so that the committee can send
the scrap trucks for it, where they
will be paid for it. Collection of the
scrap by trucks will probably not be
gin until all children have had an op
portunity to collect the scrap around
their homes and advised the teachers.
This will prevent the truck from hav
ing to make several trips in the same
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much to do, every short cut which
reduces detail work in the process
es of business should be taken.
Paying your bills by checks sav
es lots of work. No receipt is re
quired, because your canceled check
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BREAKS LEG IN ACCIDENT
ON MONDAY AFTERNOON
Rupert Sheffield, eldest son of Mr.
and Mrs. A. D. Sheffield, associated
with his father in the management
of their horse and mule business here,
sustained a compound fracture of the
leg Monday afternoon when a saddle
horse he was riding became fright
ened, ran away and threw him.
He was brought to a local hospital
where he was given medical attention.
His condition, though painful, is not
considered serious.
Parity-Plus Needed
By U. S. Farmers
WAGE INCREASES THREATEN
REDUCED FARM PRODUCTS
PRODUCTION.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 16—Edward
A. O’Neal, president of the American
Farm Bureau Federation, told Sena
tors today that unless farm price ceil
ings were set at parity-plus, to allow
for increased labor costs, food pro
duction would suffer from a wartime
labor shortage.
Testifying before the Senate Bank
ing Committee on anti-inflation legis
lation asked by President Roosevelt,
O’Neal said:
“We believe that rising labor costs
must be taken into consideration be
cause if they are not considered it
will be simply impossible for farmers
to compete with other employers in
the labor market for the help they
must have to maintain production.
“Some farmers have this year al
lowed part of their crops to remain
[ unharvested because they could not
pay wages high enough to attract the
necessary labor.
1 “It is our suggestion now that farm
price ceilings be set at parity (and at
comparable parity for commodities
for which no parity figures are avail
able), plus an appropriate amount to
compensate the producer for all farm
wage increases since the base period,
or at a price in effect at any recent
date, whichever is higher.
The measure under consideration
by the committee would authorize
the President to stabilize prices and
wages “so far as practicable’ at the
levels prevailing August 15. Price
ceilings for agricultural commodities
; could not be established at less than
i parity, or the highest market price
1 prevailing between January Ist, and
i September 15, 1942. Under present
law, such ceilings may not be estab
lished under 110 per cent of parity.
(Parity is a level calculated to give
farmers purchasing power in term*
of non-farm goods and services equiv
alent to that of a past favorable per
iod, in most cases 1909-14).
The Senate Agriculture Committee
called a special meeting to hear a
group of state Agriculture commis
i sioners from the Southern states ex
[ press their sentiments toward the
pending price control bill and its pro
bable effect on farm prices.
At the sama time, representatives
! of both farmers and organized Ipfopr
I were on hand to give their views to
i the Senate Banking committee, which
is conducting a formal hearing on a
' resolution that would empower the
i President to stabilize prices at parity
or the highest market price thus far
1 in 1942.
Senator Thomas (D., Okla.) said
he pnerstood the Cotton Belt group
would offer two resolutions to the ag
riculture committee, One would op
pose any blanket granting pf powers
to the president by Congress, The
other would ask that suitable wage
controls be linked with any control
of farm prices.
‘They don’t want the farmer to be
sacrificed for labor,” Thomas said.
Members of the farm bloc in Con
\ gress have proposed that the cost of
hired hands be included in the compu
, tatjon of parity in farm prices, which
means the equivalent of an index fig
ure that represents a favorable past
purchasing power, Farm labor posts
are disregarded in the present parity
estimates.
Wages would be considered In the
future under a farm bloc stabilization
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OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE COUNTY OF SEMINOLE AND THE CITY OF DONALSONVILLE, GEORGIA
We Can’t Equal Their Sacrifices, but We Might Try
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IFALL THEResr Of’US SACRIFICED EVERYTHING TO BUY MORE. SONOS'
WE COULDN’T THE
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—Bv Dnrlina u - s Treasury Department Copyright. 1942. New York Tribun* Inc.
OPA Warns About
Shortage Os Tires
PICKUP TRUCK OWNERS MUST
STOP “LUXURY” USE
OF VEHICLES.
The Local positioning Board has been
requested to solemnly warn Seminole
County automobile drivers to treat
their “priceless" thin-worn tires with
careful attention if they don’t want
to be riding on the rims soon. The au
tomobile tire picture is practically
hopeless. There is no out-look for in
creased allotment of tires; and, if any
thing, the allotment will be reduced.
Drivers wjll of necessity have to cur
tail excessive speed to aid in over
coming the critical rubber shortage.
When a motorist is reported to the
Rationing Board to be a fast driver
(exceeding 35 miles per hour) then
the Board is instructed to refuse the
application for tires unless the ap
plicant can furnish proof beyond a
doubt that he is a careful driver.
The Local Board is instructed to
give tire preference to trucks in the
service directly connected to the War
effort, Applications for tires are put
in three categories;
1. Those most essential to the na
tional war effort.
2. Those secondarily connected to
the war effort.
3. Those most important to the
community.
Instructions were given to the Local
Rationing Board to supply the needs
for tires according to the category of
the applicant. However, it is clearly
understood that the quota is so small
’that it will take care of only part of
the essential vehicles.
Pickup Trucks
The Local Rationing Board was in-
■ structed to advise drivers of pickup
trucks to be doubly careful in the pro-
■ tection of their tires, to drive at a
i minimum speed and not overload the
trucks. Pickup truck drivers must
show the trucks are doing essential
driving and must prove that the truck
is not used for “luxury” driving. The
truck must be used to haul and is not
to be used as a passenger vehicle.
IS PROMOTED.
Word has been received here that
Douglas B. Perry, son of M. D. Perry,
of Iron City, who is serving in the
finance department of the U. S. Army,
at Sheppard Field, Texas, has recent
ly been elevated to the grade of Mas
ter Sergeant, finance department.
Sergeant Perry was tran ferred to
Sheppard Field in May following his
graduation from the Army Finance
School at Fort Benjamin Harrison in
Indiana;
Sergeant Perry and his wife, the
former Miss Lillian Riley, are living
at 1708 Woodrow Street, Wichita Falls
Texas.
DONALSONVILLE NEWS FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18TH, 1942.
Arnall Carried 89
Counties In Primary
TOTAL UNIT VOTE IS 261 OR 55
MORE THAN NEEDED FOR
ELECTION.
General Ellis Arnall re
ceived 174,756 popular votes and car
ried 89 counties with 261 unit votes,
55 more than the required majority,
to win the Democratic gubernatorial
nomination in last Wednesday’s pri
mary, the official consolidation showed
when tabuplation was completed.
His opponent, Governor Talmadge,
i won 128,394 popular votes and was
victorious in 69 counties with 149 unit
. votes. Each candidate received one
j unit vote from Evans county, where
; they tied with 507 popular votes each.
The official figures announced by
: James S. Peters, chairman of the state
‘ Democratic executive committee, co
; incided with the returns put out by the
; Associated Press early Thursday, in
i sofar as the all-important county unit
votes are concerned.
In the popular vote the, AP gave
Arnall 174,198, an error of three
tenths of one per cent, and Talmadge
' 127,448, an error of eight-tenths ol‘
< one per cept,
The official returns gave Senator
Richard B. Russell a clean sweep of
I the state’s 159 counties with all of the
1 410 unit votes in his campaign for
1 renomination and 232,084 popular
votes. His opponent, Will D. Upshaw,
prohibitionist and former fifth dis
trict congressman, received 55,845
popular votes.
In the race to succeed Arnall as At
torney General, T. Grady Head. of
Ringgold, former state revenue toni
missjoner, carried 13b counties with
- 346 unit votes. His popular vote was
; 170,708. House Speaker Randall
Evans, Jr., of Thomson, received 116,-
i 222 popular votes and carried 29
counties with 64 unit votes.
Results of other state-wide races
I in which there were contests are:
Comptroller General lncumbent
Homer C. Parker, 194,890 popular
votes, 145 counties, 370 unit vp.fes; E.
B. Dykes, of Vjenna. 84,625 popular
votes, 14 counties, JO unit voles.
Prison and Parole Cummission —In-
cumbent Vivian L. Stanley, 201,250
popular votes, 159 counties, 410 unit
I votes; Mary D. Goudelock, 79,032
’ popular votes, no counties and no unit
! votes.
Associate Justice of the Supreme
i Court —Incumbent Samuel C. Atkin
son. 178,186 popular votes. 142 coun
ties, 374 unit votes; J. M. Bartow
Bloodworth, Atlanta attorney, 102,116
popular votes, 17 couptjgs, 36 unit
votes.
Joe Brunson, medical student at
Oglethorpe University, is visiting his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Brunson,
j this week.
A WEEK OF WAR
FROM THE OFFICE OF GOVERNMENT REPORTS
All motorists in the non-rationed
areas of the county were asked by
Price Administrator Henderson to ob
serve the same rules in using their
cars that are enforced in the rationed
Eastern Area, as a means of conserv
ing rubber tires until a National ra
tioning plan can be put into effect.
He said it will be several weeks be
fore coupon books can be printed to
carry out the Nation-wide gas ration
ing recommended by the Baruch Rub
ber Committee. Unless the Nation’s
27,000,000 motorists cut their driving
“to the bone,” Mr. Henderson said,
“we’re likely to coast right into Hit
ler’s lap.”
The White House issued a chart pre
pared by the Society of Automotive
Engineers showing that the normal
life of a tire is doubled when the av
erage driving speed is reduced from
40 to 20 miles an hour, or from 50 to
30 miles an hour. The President said
he thought the chart should be
brought to the attention of the Coun
try as a persuasive argument for
slow driving.
The Baruch Rubber Committee re
commended that motorists be curtail
ed to a general average of 5,000 miles
a year. The Committee also recom
mended a National speed limit of 35
i miles an hour and compulsory periodic
tire inspection. Complete reorganiza
tion of government agencies concern
ed with the rubber program and ap
pointment of a rubber administrator
with full responsibility for conserva
tion and synthetic production pro
grams were also recommended,
| Additional rubber must be releas
ed to fully maintain essential civi
lian driving, reclaiming operations
must be stepped up, and to increase
synthetic production, the Committee
recommended immediate expansion of
plant capacity for Buna-s, Butadiene,
Neoprene, and alcohol, and elimination
of any further substitution in plans
for synthetic production. The Presi
dent told his press conference virtual- ’
i ly all of the Committee’s reoommenda
tions except gasoline rationing will
be put into effect immediately.
The War Front
Gen. MacArthur’s Australian Head
quarters reported allied forces have
kept the Japanese thrust toward
Port Moresby bottled in the tower
ing Owen Stanley Mountains while al-!
I lied aircraft swept the seas surround-,
i ing the Island, bombing enemy sup
! ply ships. Gen. MacArthur* announc
!ed September 14 that United Nations
| Bombers attacked three Japanese car
i go ships, apparently bound for New
; Guinea, and American Flying For
i tress bombed a Japanese Cruiser off
; the South Coast of New Britain. Ear
! lier, the Fortresses hit two enemy de
j stroyers in the same area.
I Japanese Bombers continued to at-,
; tack U. S. Forces w the Solomons and
I the enemy has “reinforced and sup
! plied” Japanese troops in the interior
‘ of Guadalcanal where U. S, Marines
are engaged in mopping up operations,
’the Navy reported. The Navy said 20
| mqtc Japanese planes have been shot
■ duw-n in three heavy bombing attacks
• —bringing to at least 143 the num
ber of Jap planes officially reported
shot down since operations began
■ August 7.
U. S. Army Headquarters in Lon
don reported American fly lug for
tresses and medium bombers success
fully bombed the Schiedam Shipyards
at Rotterdam, Railway Yards at Ut
recht, an airframe factory and the St.
Omer Airdrcmm in Nazi-occupied
; France, Damage to intercepting en
i emy planes included 17 lighters de
stroyed, 25 more probably destroyed
and 25 damaged.
Two Fortresses were listed as miss-
■ ing, the first American losses in 12
• straight attacks on Nazi territory in
! Europe. The Navy announced the sink
ing of eight more United Nations Mer
chant vessels by enemy submarines.
War Strategy
The White House announced that
■ during July Army Chief of Staff Mar
shall, Chief of N?va| Operation King
and Special Adviser to the President,
|Upkin», conferred with High Bri
tish Officials in London and at these
conferences certain vital military de-
’ cisions directed toward taking the of
fensive were made. The President, in
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a radio address, said the power of
Germany must be broken on the con
tinent of Europe and “preparations
are being made here and in Britain to
i wards this purpose.” Under Secretary
lof War Patterson, speaking in Mus
kegon, Michigan, said that more than
600,000 men in the Armed Forces are
overseas and this force “will be doub
led and doubled to the limit of our
manpower.” W. Averell Harriman,
Special Lend-Lease Minister to Lon
don, said the Russians “are determin
ed to fight to the finish. . .alone with
I their own resources if need be. But
they will fight on with even more
strength and courage if we give effec
-1 tive aid.”
The Armed Forces
President Roosevelt told his Press
Conference he did not think it would
be necessary to call up 18 and 19-year
olds before the first of next year be
cause Army training facilities at pre
sent are only equal to the number of
men being taken in, but he is discuss
ing with the army wheather enabling
Legislation will be needed soon. Army
ground forces Commander McNair
announced the number of Army Divi
sions in existence or being mobilized
has more than doubled since January
1.
War Secretary Stimson announced
the Air Transport Command will es
tablish an experimental unit of 50
trained women aviators, the Women’s
Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron, to fer
ry smaller army planes from factories
to Airfields.
The weather bureau called for 75
women airplane pilots to take a course
in Meteorology. Mr. Stimson also said
the army expects to call most, and
possibly all, student- reservists who
have reached selective service age to
active duty by the end of the college
term begining in September. The
Coast Guard is forming a fleet of 250
fire-fighting machine boats, most of
them embodying a new design in pro
pulsion and fire-fighting machinery tn
be used in protecting water-front fa
cilities along U. S. Coasts.
Transportation
Office of Defense Transportation
Director Eastman announced “no spec
ial train or bus service, including
charter bus service, to football games
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THEATRE
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Saturday Only
Gene Autry., In
“COW BOY SE REN A DE”
Monday and Tuesday
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., - Ruth
Warrick, in
“CORSICAN BRO IHERS”
W ednesday Only
Lupe Velez - Leon Erroll and
“Buddy” Rogers, In
‘MEXICAN SPITFIRE’S BABY’
Thursday and Friday
Shirley Temple, In
“MISS ANNIE ROONEY”
MIDGET THEATRE
John Wayne - Don “Red” Barry
and Binnie Barnes, In
“IN OLD CALIFORNIA”
NUMBER 31.