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UNITED STATES WAR
BONDS-STAMPS
SI.OO A YEAR IN ADVANCE
VOLUME XXVI.
Seminole Farmer
Is Shot And Killed
“ROWDY” GIBSON DIES INSTANT
LY FROM SHOT GUN
WOUND.
Climaxing bad feeling which has
existed between them for some time,
B. G. (Rowdy) Gibson, 32—year-old
farmer was shot and instantly killed
Wednesday afternoon about 4 o’clock
by W. T. Williams, also a farmer, of
this county.
According to Sheriff C. L. Chandler
•who investigated immediately after
the killing, Williams, Gibson and Wil
liam Daniels had been to Albany, and
all three were said to be drinking
when they reurned home. An argu
ment started between Williams and
Gibson, the latter threatening to kill
Williams.
Gibson, who carried a loaded shot
gun in his car, is said to have picked
up the gun as they reached home to
shoot Williams, but Daniels, sensing
trouble, unloaded the gun before Gib
son got it and threw the shell in some
heavy undergrowth nearby.
Finding that his gun was unloaded,
Gibson laid it down and started into
Williams home, Williams having al
ready entered the house and secured
his gun. Despite repeated warnings
by Williams for Gibson not to come
in the house, Gibson kept coming and
Williams fired point blank at his head,
killing him (Gibson) instantly. A
piece of his skull was found ten feet
away from the body of the dead man.
Williams immediately came to town
aiwl surrendered to the sheriff.
Gibson, according ° Chand
ler, had a reputation of being quite
a trouble-maker. He was also said to
be under a Federal probation sentence
for white slavery, having been sen
tenced at Thomasville three years ago
to serve four years for the offense on
probation.
Gibson was at one time married
but has been separated from his wife
for some time, it is said.
GARDEN CLUB OPEN MEETING
NEXT TUESDAY.—
Mrs. J. J. Cummings, president of
the Donalsonville Garden Club, an
nounces that the Club wil hold an open
meeting next Tuesday afternoon at the
Community Club House. Each mem
ber is privileged to bring a guest with
them to the meeting.
The guest speaker for the meeting
will be Mr. Roy Bowden, head of the
Horticulture department of the State
College of Agriculture at Athens.
Buy War Bonds REGULARL i
A Check Is
A Valid Receipt
In these days when there is so
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
at the bank is a valid receipt.
Payment by check establish an
infallible record by which errors
may be traced and rectified.
For many reasons you should
have a checking account, and this
Bank is a good place to put it.
COMMERCIAL
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Snnalfinttntlk News
Close Saturday
Entries In City Primary Must Quali
fy By Saturday Noon.
Saturday of this week will mark the
deadline or closing for entries in the
Ciy Primary to be held on October
21st. The terms of Mayor M. M. Min
ter and Aidermen R. M. Holman and
B. B. Clarke expire January Ist, and
the primary has been called by the
City Democratic Exeutive Committee
for the purpose of nominating their
successors.
Entrance fees are $lO for mayor
and $5 for aidermen. Candidates
must qualify with Clerk T. E. Roberts
not later than 12 o’clock noon next
Saturday to enter the race.
The committee also wishes to warn
new residents of the city who have not
as yet registered to vote in a city
election that they must register at
once. The time limit for registering
to be eligible to vote in the city pri
mary expires Saturday, October 17th
at 6 o’clock p. m.
Registrants must go to the city
clerk’s office and register in their own
handwriting. Some have the impres
sion that they are qualified because
of their registration with the county.
To vote in ciy primaries voters must
also register with the city.
A referendum on Sunday shows
will be held with the city primary on
Wednesday, October 21st.
Bainbridge Base Is
Seeking More Men
MECHANICS, RADIO MEN WANT.
ED FOR SERVICE AT
BASIC FIELD.
BAINBRIDGE, Ga., Oct. 7—Still
open for mechanics and radiomen is
the opportunity to enlist in the Army
Air Forces Basic Flying School / at
Bainbridge. The Air Forces recruiting
officer here is Major W. F. Shipman
and his latest information is that me
chanics and radiomen can enlist for
the Bainbridge Post until November 1.
In order to qualify for enlistment
in the Air Forces at Bainbridge, one
has to be between the ages of 18 and
55 and must have had experience as
an airplane mechanic, appliance ser
viceman, armorer or gunsmith, auto
mobile mechanic, bench assember, bi
cycle repairman, electrician, farm me
chanic, instrument maker or repair
man, jeweler, locksmith, maintenance
mechanic, radio mechanic, radio opera
tor sheet metal worker, telegrapher,
watch or clockmaker or repairman ,or
welder. Summed up, those who can
qualify are those who are mechanical
ly minded.
The new bill makes it possible for
the monthly income of enlisted men to
be as follows: Master Sergeant, $138;
Technical or First Sergeant, sll4.
Staff Sergeant, $36; Sergeant, S7B;
Corporal, $66; Private first class, $54,
and Private SSO. The pay is increased
50 per cent if member of an air crew
and men with dependants are allowed
family allowances.
Also the Army pays your expenses,
free clothing, free quarters, free food,
free medical care, and free-on-the-job
training.
The Air Forces enlistment campaign
gives one the opportunity to choose a
favorite branch of the service and be
stationed at home. And the mechanics
and radiomen can fight with their
skill and tools —the way in which they
can be the most useful in winning the
war.
Those interested should call by the
local draft board and obtain a gate
pass to the Air Base as it will be re
quired on entering the Field.
Chas. W. Long and William H. Rob
erts, Donalsonville; Fred A. Campbell
Longview, Texas; - William T. Ward
and Roscoe L. Hughes, Bainbridge and
Charles C. Nalls, Walter C. Sims, Jr.,
Brinson, all of whom qualified as air
plane mechanics. Charlie F. Mathis,
Damascus, and Franklin C. White,
Cairo, enlisted as airplane armorers,
and Lawrence W. Cox, Attapulgus, as
an airplane welder.
MAJOR JENKINS IS VISITOR
Major (Dr.) H. B. Jenkins, of the
U. S. Army Medical Corps, located at
Augusta, is spending a few days here
this week as the guest of friends. He
reports that Dr. H. B. Baxley’ is now
at an undisclosed Foreign Duty Sta
tion, but that he hears from him fre
quently and that he is in good health.
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE COUNTY OF SEMINOLE AND THE CITY OF DONALSONVILLE, GEORGIA
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BUY WAR BONDS
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FROM THE OFFICE OF GOVERNMENT REPORTS
Following passage by Congress of
the second price control act, President
Roosevelt ordered ceilings placed over
wages, salaries, profits, farm prices
and rents, and appointed supreme
court Justice James F. Byrnes as Di
rector of Economic stabilization with
the job of developing a National
Economic Policy.
Justice Byrnes resigned from the
Couit to accept the new position. He
will have authority over all govern
ment agencies in the economic field
and will be assisted by a fourteen-man
economic stabilization board com
posed of eight agency heads and six
private citizens.
Maximum Prices And Rents
Immediately following the Presi
dent’s executive order, Price Admin
istrator Henderson imposed emer
gency 60-day price ceilings on vir
tually all exempt food items, bring
ing 90 percent of the family food
budget under rigid control.
Previously only 60 percent was con
trolled. Under control for the first
time are butter, cheese, evaporated
and condensed milk, eggs, poultry,
flour, dry onions, potatoes, fresh and
canned fruits and juices, dry edible
beans, cornmeal and mutton. Food re
tailers, wholesalers, manufacturers
and processors are affected. Each
dealer’s price is frozen at the highest
level he charged in the five days
September ( 28 to October 2, inclusive.
The permanent ceilings later may en
tail some price reductions, Mr. Hen
derson said.
Administrator Henderson also com
pleted new orders freezing all uncon
trolled urban and rural rents at levels
of last March 1. He announced the
Office of Price Administration would
amend existing regulations to pre
vent eviction of tenants resulting from
sales of rental property, a practice
which he said in many cases has be
come a device to avoid the effect of
rent control. Previously rent control
was limited to approximately 400 de
signated defense rental areas.
Stabilization Os Wages
The President’s order had the ef
fect of freezing all wage rates for the
time being until the Naional M ar La
bor has a chapce to act in individual
cases. Wage rates may not be chang
ed —up or down —without the approval
of the NWLB. The Board may adjust
wages “to correct maladjustments or
inequalities, to eliminate substandards
of living, to correct gross inequities,
or to aid in the effective prosecution of
the war.”
Salaries in excess of $5,000 a year
may not be increased without tne ap
proval of stabilization Director Byrnes
unless an Individual has been assigned
to more difficult or more responsible
work. Director Byrnes was given
power to place a $25,000 limit on sal
aries after taxes but with due allow
ance for life insurance premiums and
fixed obligations previously incur
red.
Farm Prices And Production
Mr. Roosevelt ordered prices of raw
and processed agricultural commodi
ties “stabilized, so far as practicable,”
at September iu |e¥ e l s and in con
formity with the standards laid down
in the new law. The new price con
trol law provides farm price ceilings
cannot be set below parity er below
the highest market level between Jan
uary 1 and September 15, 1942, which
ever is higher. If such ceilings are too
DONALSONVILLE NEWS FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9TH, 1942.
low to reflect increases in farm labor
and other costs since January 1, 1941,
the President is directed to raise them.
The Legislation calls for a 90 per
cent parity “floor” under cotton, corn,
wheat, rice, tobaco and peanuts, the
floor to be established by means of
loans. The loans may be held down to
85 percent, however, on corn and
wheat used for feeding livestock and
poultry.
Agriculture Secretary Wickard, in
speaking at Tylertown, Miss., said Ag
riculture in wartime must be limited
to “producing only the farm products
which are absolutely essential.” He
said farm production for 1942, nearly
a record, might not be exceeded for
years, and future production might not
be FSl>lcnt for all needs at home and
abroad. “Next year we will need a
farm production even greater than
this years—(but) am not at all sure
that total production will be even as
large.”
The War Front
The Navy announced that U. S.
Army troops, “covered and supported
by units” of the U. S. Navy, have re
cently occupied positions in the An
dreanof group of the Aleutian Islands.
Occupation .was effected without
enemy opposition. This chain of some
24 Islands stretches for 240 miles and
the largest of the Islands is about 275
miles from Japanese-occupied Kiska
and is well adapted for use as an air
base. The Navy said U. S. heavy
bombers and fighter craft are already
operating from air fields in these is
lands.
During a week of heavy fighting in
New Guinea, Gen. MacArthur’s ground
forces drove the enemy back some 40
miles from a point about 32 air miles
from the allied base of Port Moresby
past Efogi Village, last important Ja
panese base on the Southern side of
the Owen Stanley Mountains, Gen. j
MacArthur’s headquarters reported
October 5. American Flying Fortress
es based in Britain attacked an air
plane factory at Meaulte and a Ger
man Airfield at St. Omer October 2,
and returned without losses after'
shooting down 13 enemy fighters.
U. S. Submarines operating in Far,
Pastern waters sank five enemy ships I
and probably sank two more, and;
damaged another. Army, Navy andi
Marine corps fliers from September;
25 to 28 destroyed 42 Japanese Air-'
craft and damaged three others in the
Solomons, without combat loss of any
U. S. Planes, and hit two enemy
cruisers, damaged another ship and
probably sank a large transport. The
Navy reported the 8,378-ton Naval
transport George F. Elliott and the l
spiall transport Gregory were sunk
In the Solomons but most of their per
sonnel was saved. The Navy anaounc
ed October 5 that the 1,526 ton sub
marine Grunion has been overdue in
the Pacific for some time and “must
be presumed to be lost.” The normal
complement of the vessel would be
C 5 officers and men. The torpedo
sinking of four more United Nations
Merchantmen was announced.
War Production And Small Business.
aq 8,754-mfie
tour of the Nation —kept secret as a
special wartime safeguard—President
Roosevelt raid the War Production
program Is going, on the whole, ex
tremely well, allowing for a normal
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To Sponsor Show
Carnival Coming Here Next Week
To Benefit Livestock Show.
Sponsored by the local Lions Club,
the Southern Exposition Shows will
come to Donalsonville all next week,
and will be located on the regular
show grounds opposite the Seminole
Hotel.
The shows come here as an annual
event under the auspices of the Lions
Club, which receives a share of the
proceeds for use in payment of prizes
in the annual Seminole Couny Live
stock show, which will be held next
spring.
The owner of he show states that
the attraction will be much smaller
this year due to tire and gasoline ra
tioning, though it carries five rides,
10 concessions and other attractions.
No shows will be carried this year,
ho free act and there will be no gate
admission charge.
Minutes Os Board
Co. Commissioners
IN REGULAR SESSION, TUESDAY
OCTOBER SIXTH,
1942.
The Board of Commissioners of
Roads and Revenues of Seminole
County met in regular session Tues
day, October 6th, with members pres
ent as follows: L. R. Robinson, chair
man, H. O. Cummings, E. J. Greene,
R. L. Johnson and D. H. Miller,
Minutes of September meeting were
read and approved,
Bills were audited and paid when
found in order,
On motion and second, it was unani
mously carried that N. P. Maloom be
paid SSO per month as chairman of
the Seminole county rationing board.
I The salary became effective as of Au
gust Ist and is bo cease at the dis-,
cretion of the board.
Dr. Whitman of the State Health
Department and Miss Ethel Cowart,
county nurse, appeared before the
board with reference to the work in
this county.
Sheriff C. L. Chandler asked for an
increase in jail board for prisoners,
prices having advanced to such an
extent that he stated he was losing
money. It was unanimously’ voted to
increase the rate of pay to 75c per day
while the conditions are such as they
are today.
The oath of office was administered
to H. O. Cummings as commissioner
from the Steam Mill district by Or
dinary G. B. Garwood. Mr. Cummings
subscribed to the oath and became a
member of the board.
Mr. Miller requested use of the
Courthouse for the Tri-Statc Singing
Convention on the Third Sunday in
October which was granted.
It was ordered that the bill of the
Seminole County Public Welfare De
partment be presented to the county
Attorney for approval before the day
of meeting by the board and if ap
proved by him, payment would be
made.
There being no further business, the
board adjourned subject U» call.
L. R. RBINSON, Chairman,
E. B. HAY, Clerk.
2,122 Bales Ginned
Announcement from the local Coun
ty Agent’s office this week is to the
effect that 2,122 bales of 1942 cotton
had been ginned up to this week Up
to the same period last year the total
was 3,399 bales, a reduction of ap
proximately 1277 bales jn the yield
this year.
Indications are that the ginnings are
virtually at a standstill in the county,
and very few more bales are expected:
to be brought in, the crop being ex
ceedingly short of the avearge yield
and the quality of much of it this,
year is said to be very poor.
Attend Convention
—, —
Seminole County delegates to the
(State Democratic Convention held on
Wednesday were L. R. Robinson, C. D.
Thomas, L. L. Canington and Repre
sentative Jno. L. Drake.
The delegates left Wednesday morn
ing to represent the county which was
carried by Governor-Elect Ellis Arnall
by a substantial majority.
B. 10% OF INCOME
1 IS OUR QUOTA
JSi Bl W BvHBS
SINGLE COPIES 5 CENTS
Keen Interest Seen
In Scrap Drive Here
TONS OF OLD METAL ARE BEING
COLLECTED TO AID IN
WAR 'EFFORT.
Gathering momentum as each day
i passes the “scrap” drive in Seminole
i county is meeting a hearty response
■ from the people of the town and over
' the county. Several thousand pounds
I of scrap had already been collected up
1 to Thursday noon, and the big drive
| for Thursday afternoon has as yet to
! be reported.
■ School children have entered into
the drive with real enthusiasm as a
part of a National Junior Army which
launched the great attack Monday.
They are collecting the things of
which tanks and ships are made rus-
ty pipe, broken bed springs, air guns,
broken toys, pots, pans, plows, in
fact everything metal, except tin cans,
all of which will aid in the war effort.
Business men have, this week, left
off their business and visited homes
over the town and searched for scrap,
collecting it and placing it on the side
walk where city trucks could get it.
Ellison Dunn, chairman of the com
mittee, states that the response has
been most gratifying, and on behalf
of the Lions Club expresses to the peo
ple of the town and county sin
cere appreciation for the liberal gift
of scrap made by many. “If you have
any doubt as to the true patriotism of
the people of Seminole county, the re
sults of their efforts this week will
dispel them. Everyone joined in the
collecting wholeheartedly and it cart
be truthfully said that Seminole coun
tians are doing their part”, Dunn, said.
Meanwhile, it was pointed out by
the chairman that the drive does not
end with this week. The need for
scrap is very desperate and the flow
to the mills must show an increase.
While the i U:is week ba; br
favorable results, there remains right:
here in Seminole county thousands of
pounds of worthless machinery and
other things, all containing precious
metals needed so badly by our govern
ment for guns, tanks, ammunition,
and even rubber for gas masks. Those
having old abandoned cars should rec
port them that they might be brought
in.
“Let’s continue to do our part by
keeping the scrap rolling in. Hun
dreds of lives of our own boys are at
stake in the battle for the liberty we
all enjoy. They are fighting for us,
and the least we can do is to give them
the instruments to fight with,” the
chairman said.
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Monday and Tuesday
Ann Sheridan and Dennis
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“WINGS FOR THE EAGLE”
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Charlie Chaplin, In
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