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OVER THE TOP «FOR VICTORY with 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 STATE BANK BSE- roREAa, 2) 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 ||a BUY WAR BONDS JLWARI 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 (Turn To No. 2 On Last Page) 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. fell Saturday Only Roy Rogers, In “ROMANCE ON THE RANGE" Monday and Tuesday Ann Sheridan and Dennis Morgan, In “WINGS FOR THE EAGLE” - - ' Wednesday Only Craig Stevens - Irene Manning, In ’ “SPY SHIP” _ . Thursday and Friday Charlie Chaplin, In “THE GOLD RUSH” •■■■aaaaaaaaaaaaaaeaaaac MIDGET THEATRE Lupe Velez - Leon Krrol and Charles (Buddy) Rogers, In The Mexican Spitfire Sees A Ches NUMBER 37.