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VOLUME XXVII.
Driving Ban Covers!
Many Activities
Tlie War Price and Rationing Board
here has the folowing announcement
with reference to use of automobiles
under the ban on pleasure driving and
non-essential use of cars:
1. Driving necessary to meet re
ligious obligations is permissible.
This will include driving to attend re
ligious services in a church, prayer
or- devotional meetings, or attend
meetings which provide religious in
struction and which are held under
the auspices of organized religious
groups.
2. The use of car for school teach
ers to ride to school where they are
in walking distance of the school
grounds is not permissible. Cars
should only be used for transporta
tion when such transportation is es
sential and necessary and there is no
adequate alternate means.
3. Persons who drive their car to
town and park it in front of the post
office, depot, courthouse, hospital,
clubhouse, or on streets next to the
business building of the town, and
then walking to the picture show or
other places of amusement is a direct
violation of the ban on pleasure driv
ing and is not permissible.
4. Attending private homes, bridge
•and club parties is purely for pleas
ure purposes and is not permissible.
6. Visits to the seriously ill by
■persons who are not members of the
family is permissible if no adequate
alternate means of transportation
are available and such visits are nec
essary for the adequate care and
comfort of the invalid.
RETURNS FROM BATTLE FRONT
Chief Radioman Jeff Spooner, of
the U. S. Navy, is at home for a few
days with his wife and many friends.
He saw service in the occupation of
Guadalcanal by the American forces
-remaining on the Island for several
•weeks before being injured and re
turned to the States to recuperate.
NEW BANKING
HOURS
Effective this date the under
signed bank will be open for
business during ithe following
hours.
9:30 A. M. To 12:00
1 P. M. To 2:30 P. M.
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Cleaning, Pressing And Dyeing
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Bnnalsmtmlb Nruw
Extends Deadline
The deadline for purchasing 1943
automobile licenses was extended to
March 1 by Governor Arnall Monday
after the senate adopted a house reso
lution to this effect.
House members abandoned their
own measure which would have set
the deadline up to February 15.
Arnall had notified the legislature
he did not propose to alter the normal
limit of January 30 because he felt
such proposals should be acted upon
by lawmakers when they are in ses
sion.
In Donalsonville there was a rush
Monday by numerous auto and truck
owners to secure their tags, the banks
and post office being rushed with ap
lications for money orders remitting
for the tags.
Fertilizer Analyses
Limited This Year
(By W. C. RUSHING, County Agent)
The War Production Board has lim
ited the number of fertilizer formu
las to be mixed and sold to farmers
in 1943. Some farmers may be un
able to obtain formulas that they
have been accustomed to using in the
past. In some instances formulas
should be changed with due consider
ation to fertilizer requirements of
various crops to maintain yield and
• increase them if possible during the
war period.
The War Production Board will al
■low only the following grades of
mixed fertilizer to be sold in Georgia
in 194: 0-14-10; 2-12-6; -3-8-5; 3-9-6;
•3-9-9; 3-12-6; 4-2-10. These analysis
I were probably worked out from ex
' perimental work conducted by the Ex
periment Station in Georgia.
AH the fertilizer farmers are able
to buy should be used wisely and to
the best advantage of feis form op
eration to receive maxjmppi produp?
tion. In the past there has not been
any great effort to conserve and
utilize to the fulest extent our many
sources of nitrogen on the farm, such
as manure and legume cover crops,
i If we would pay more attention to
| the farm sources of nitrogea there
j would be less need for commercial
fertilizer, and commercial nitrogen.
• The commercial fertilizer does not
I build up land and keep it in a high
productive stage without a heavy ap
: plication every year, because there is
not any organic material in commer
cial fertilizer, Heavy rain will leech
out food material of fer
tilizer, where manure and lagump
will help to absorb rain, main
tain and bWild up the productivity of
the land.
Since the number (ts fertilizer ana
lysis are limited the Coastal Plains
! Experiment Station at Tifton has
’ suggested analysis to be used in fer-
• tilizing the various crops. These
I suggestions as recommended are not
:in all instances the same as in the
■ past-
Cotton; ThP re should be applied,
at the time of pisr4jng, four to six I
I hundred pounds of If) order
to receive maximum yield per apre
the cotton should have a top drossing
of 100 pounds of nitrate of soda or
sulphate of ammonia. If yon follow
winter or summer legumes with cot
, ton Os ptaßf on good land, the top
dressing W’ ll not be pes
sary. A 3-9-6 gap instead of
the 3-9-9 at the rate of fWF ejx
hundred pounds and top dressed Wltii•
150 pounds of 10-0-10, except where
I cotton follows a legume crop.
Where cotton follows peanuts it
i rtjay be necessary to top dress with
50 Vv IPO pounds of muriate of pot-'
ash t» rust from cutting the;
yield of cotton, i# Jftgst cases where
peanuts arc harvested tjj.e 5 s • OVr i
in potash.
Peanuts: This is a crop that dees
not require as high percentage of
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OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE COUNTY OF SEMINOLE AND THE CITY OF DONALSONVILLE, GEORGIA
Shortly after the White House an
nouncement of the President’s stop
over in Liberia on his way home from
the Casablanca conferences, an offi
cial commique from Rio De Janeiro
disclosed that the President had also
stopped in Natal for a conference
with President Vargas of Brazil. The
visit to Liberia was made to pay re
spects to President Edwin Barclay,
to review a large detachment of
American Negro troops, and to in
spect the large Firestone rubber
plantation. The conference at Natal
brought together the presidents of
the two largest American Republics,
the United States and Brazil.
Although, according to White House
Secretary Early, the story of the Cas
ablanc Conference is complete, ‘‘so
far as it can be told at the present
time,” subsequent chapters undoubt
edly will be written as events unfold.
Secretary of State Hull told reporters
that even the State Department has
not yet learned all the details on
what was said about the political
situation in North Afriug,
Land-Lease
Testifying before the House For
eign Affairs Committee, Lend-Lease
Administrator Stettinus reaffirmed
the Lend-Lease Principle—.“the prin
ciple of total cooperation among na
tions in the waging of war”—as the
only one on which a war alliance can
successfully be waged. The question,
he said, is not whether we should con
tinue to send supplies to our allies, but
why have we not sent more. Lend-
Lease supplies to China for example,
are getting through in pitifully
small amounts in terms of what
China needs, hot nearly all that we
Wpuld l?ave liked to have supplied.
!’Lpnd-Lpfise,” Mr. Stettinus said,
"is not a loan of money. Nor has it
ever been an act of charity. The
Lend-Lease program of providing
goods and services to Nations resist
ing the Axis aggressors was under
taken for the defense of this poultry.
and has been carried out In the Inter-1
ests of the people of the U nlted
States.” The cumulative value of
United States Lend-Lease aid from
March 11, 1941 (date of inception) to
December 31, 1942, was $8,253,000,000
—79 per cent of this for goods, 21
percent for services. And about 90
percent of the goods—valued at al
billion dolars—has been
shipped.
One of the greatest aphjeyempnt
lof Lend-Lease has been its help in
' making the British Isles an impreg
! [table t#se for ofiepsiye operations.
; A large part of UIP N°fP) Afripap
! campaign was launched from Britain
and so were the campaigns In the
■ Midle East, Italian Africa, Syria, and
■ Madagascar.
A few facts on reciprocal Lend
' Lease—The United Kingdom from
i May to November supplied United
forces in the United Kingdom
with (qthsF than
tian materialsj which Would have
taken 1,200,000 ship tons if shipped
from this country. Australia and
New Zealand, under reciprocal Lend-
Lease, are supplying practically all of
the food consumed by American
armed forces in the South Pacific
including more than 100,000,-
übh food, an d are provid-
ing camps, aiprtgjd*;
and numerous other items [ the
ish Navy furnished two-thirds of the
warships which convoyed the expe
dition to North Africa; also for North
Africa, the British supplied such sub
stantial quantities of military equip
ment as four 1,000 bed field hospitals,
Ihft ambulances, artil-
lery, airfield
nition.
Since the inception of the Soviet aid
program in October, 1941, the United
States has transferred to the Soviet
Union supplies, including food, cost
ing more than $1,250,000,000. Lend-
Lease food shipments to Russia from
now fed expected to exceed by a
considerable margin togd
shipments to ail other parts of the
world combined, including shipments
to the United Kingdom.
North African Drive
In the conferences recently held in
North Africa—the Casablanca con
fppence and the military conference
DONALSONVILLE NEWS FRIDAY, FEBRUARY STH, 1943.
> WEEK OF WAR
FROM THE OFFICE OF WAR INFORMATION
at General Eisenhower’s headqaurters
—the highest military authorities of
the United States and Great Britain
conferred on strategy for the Medi
terranean theater, setting the stage
for a final offensive against all Axis
forces remaining in Africa. That the
Axis expect a gigantic Allied push is
evident from the alarms sounded by
the Axis-controlled radio.
Meanwhile, things have been rela
tively quiet. There has been little
change in the ground situation since
Rommel’s retreating army abandoned
Tripoli and ran for the Tunisian fron
tier. The Middle Eastern command
i on Friday, January 29, reported ar
tillery exchanges between the British
eighth army and the Afrika Korps
rear guard near Zuara, 64 mlies west
or Trjpqlj ai|d 32 miles from Tunisia
on the road that leads north to Gabes
and Sfax, and American troops have
made lightning raids in Southern Tu
nisia and have regained positions in
the Ousseltia Valley of Northeastern
Tunisia. But most of the activity in
the battle areas has taken place in
||)<J air, and even that has been pam
pered by bai|
Secretary of War Stimson released
figures on American casualties in Tu
nisia. Thus far, United Stfttps cas
ualties number L 358, including 311
killed, 532 wounded and 815 missing.
Os those missing, 226 have been re
ported prisoners of the Axis.
Aircraft Losses
Mr. Stimson also released figures
on plane-versus-plane losses suffered
by the enemy and the U. S. Air
Forces in all theaters of operation.
Accordnig to the war department, the
t euerffy lost 1,349 planes in 1942, de
i stroyed or probably t ’
j (In; UfiAAE lost ana—a ratio of ap
i proximately four to one. Even figur
■ ing only enemy “positives”—planes
known to have been destroyed—the
ratio is three Axis plapes |o one
America;] plane.
Farm Lsbur
To Arigculturo Secretary Wiekard
has been given the unified responsi
bility of supplying labor for war pro
duction on farms. A War Manpower
Commission directive has brought to
gether in the agriculture department
the responsibility for recruiting and
placing farm labor, the determina
tion of needs and areas of supply, the
transportation of farm workers to
shortage areas, and the determina
tion of war-essential crops cum
m;ss;oi4 will continue to control over-1
all manpower policies and standards,
including those affecting agriculture,
and will continue to be responsibly Fqr
“review and apprewal of ths Agri-!
culture Labor Program.”
In a joint press conference Mr. Mc-
Nutt and Mr. Wiekard said unless
3,500,000 persons are placed on farms
by the time the seasonal peak is reach-!
ed this summer, agriculture in gen- !
oral faces a breakdown, Jq Decem
ber, Psisulis were en-
gaged in farming. But, if production
goals are to be met this year, (his
figure must be increased than
18,000,000.
Pointing out that during the past
l two years Agriculture lost an average
of 1,500,000 workers a year, Mr.
Wickard said the agriculture depart
ment field agencies might arrange for
the closing of schools during weeks
WhP»j tjtbtv wan <* critical tann labor
shortage. He stressed the need tor
farm families to leave subsistence
j farms for farms where full produc
; tion can be obtained, emphasizing
I that the reduction in the number of
' units required for Selective Service
■ Deferment did not mean that the
i standards of production for war goals
Had baen jedutiad likewise.
Federal Subsidy Program
A Federal subsidy program of ap
proximately $100,000,000 to encour
age increased production of war foods
and fibers in 1943, has been announc
ied. According to Mr. Wickard, the
• new payments are more a subs : tjx Jo
■ cdOSUfnefa H raiders., a* they
‘ will permit farmers to increase pro
duction without immediately higher
prices.
Mrs. Frank Raley, Jr. and children,
of Dothan, Ala., spent Sunday here
with relatives.
Is Honored
Mrs. Oscar C. Smith left Wednes
| day for Carrolton where she was
i guest of honor at a luncheon on
j Thursday at the N. Y. A. training
I school.
! Mrs. Smith is local representative
I for the NYA and because of her suc
' ces in securing many youths to enter
the school from this county she was
invited to the luncheon to explain how
she had accomplished such good work
in such a short time. Seminole
county has more students in the train
ing school than any other county in
the state, they advised.
The training school sent for Mrs.
Smith and will also send her home
after the luncheon and other enter
tainment, it is said.
Prominent Citizen
Claimed By Death
Funeral services fop Mr. A. R.
Befitofi, fax. many years a leading
citizen of Seminole county and South
west Georgia, who passed away early
Thursday morning after a protracted
illness, were held at the local Method
ist Church on Friday afterftoua. His
pastor, the Rev. (?■ L. Nease, con
ducted thg service.
Ball bearers were J. O. O’Neal, L.
G. Hay, A. L. Hay, J. H. Hamm, L.
C. and T. R, Roberts. The
Stewards and trustees of the Meth
odist church formed an honorary es
cort,
Mr, Benton, almost 80 years old, was
born September 20, 1863 and was
next to the oldest of a family of thir
teen children of Mills Benton and
Nannie Alphin Benton. Only six of
i the children lived to be grown.
As a young man he engaged ift the
mercantile, cotton and busi-
ness with his at Sunbury, 3. C.,
under, tfUdC ua»ne of M. Benton
HU mother died in 1886
and two years later he went to Pough
keepsie, N. Y., where he took a busi
ness course at Eastman National
Business College from which school
eh was graduated in 1888, Upon his
graduation he was offered a profess
oishlp but declined the offer to be
come a traveling salesman for a shoe
concern.
In March 1891, he came to Georgia
and accepted a position with the late
G. 11. Dickenson, as bookkeeper at
Steam Mill of this county. He held
this position until January, 1894,
when he came to Donalsonville and
entered the mercantile, cotton and
fertilizer business as maflaguy of the
J. D. Chason afid Other part
ner? this Business were the late
J. D. Chason, of Bainbridge, and the
late Reuben Brunson, of Dolison
ville. A few years later he bought
this business and continued its op
eration under the trade name of A.
R. Benton Company.
In June 1902, this business was de
stroyed by a fire which burned the
entire business section of
ville. After the fira, lie re-entered
the same business as president and
manager of the Benton-Shinglor
Company, which for ten yoare was
one of the largest corpora-
tions in thjs
In January 1914, he and other stock
holders bought the Shingler interest
In this business and continued its op
eration under the corporate name of
Benton Trading Company. This busi
ness closed in December, 1920. Mr.
Benton continued the cotton npd fer
tilizer business under (he trade name
of Bs;4ou Motion Company until his
death on January 28, 1943.
In November, 1896, he married
Miss Annie Lee Simmons, adopted
daughter of his former employer, the
late G. H. Dickenson, of Steam Mill.
She died in 1932 and was buried in
the local Friendship cemetery where
he was buried by her s;d,a Friday.
He U survived by one sister, Mrs.
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Huge Army Is Seen
During Year 1543
War Manpower Commissioner Paul
V. McNutt told the House Mi >tary
Affairs Committee this week that “by
the end of this year 10 out of every
14 of the able-bodied men between 18
and 38 years old will be in the a’■med
services.”
Dependency draft deferment- -even
for men with children—will be wiped
out for countless thousands under a
new order issued by the commisron’s
Selective Service Bureau to take ef
fect April 1.
Designed to impel transfer of draft
eligibles from non-essential to essen
tial work, the order—departing com
pletely from any issued heretofore—
sets up a list of activities and job
occupations which are to be “non
deferable,” regardless of dependents
after April Ist.
Although Selective Service boards
were instructed to start on that date
reconsidering the status of non-defer
rables,” workers in that classification
will be given an, additional 30 days to
find essential positions providing that;
they have registered with the U. S.
Employment service for a job trans
fer.
The list, which WMC chairman
Paul V-. McNutt called “just a begin
ning' ’is a broad hint that dependency
deferments are being narrowed gen
erally to relieve labor shortages in
war industries.
To Broadcast
A “fireside chat" to the people of
Georgia will be given by Governor
EUD Area II Friday night at 10:30
central war time over radio station
WSR, of Atlanta.
The talk will be the first of several
the Governor expects to give the peo
ple on legislative and state govern
ment masters. It will tarry nut his
platform promise to keep the people
advised at all times on state affairs.
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THEATRE;
NUMBER 2.