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THE COVINGTON NEWS
COVINGTON, GEORGIA
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Official Organ of Newton County and The
City of Covington.
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Hazards af Lend-Leas- Hill
What Associated Press staff writer Richard L. Tur
ner called “a new and, to some, a startling phase in the
argument for helping Great Britain.” recently appeared
while the Senate was debating the lend-lease bill. This new
phase was the admission that the proposed policv into ' es
the risk of war.
The opponents of the lend-lease measure have long
used that as their prime weapon. They have declared
that once the bill becomes law it will be only a matter of
months before we are active participants in the war
against the Axis. At the beginning however the bills
supporters generally pooh-poohed that supposition. 1 nev
said that the measure could not carry us closer to war.
Now their tone has undergone significant change.
For example, Senator Barkley, the majority leader,
! recently said that “the course we chart is not without
risk” Going a long baeUr, step farther, Senator Pepper, one of ]
the meet of all-out aid to Britain, said
"If the action we propose will not save England, we will
save it anyway.’ Frankest of al! was Senator Bailey, an-:
other leader of Democratic forces, who said: “I am hop
ing that intervention may not mean war, but I am ready
if intervention does mean war.”
The President himself said that there were hazards!
in any course that this country might pursue in its foreign
policy. It was obvious that the possibility of war was in his
mind when, in answer to a question at a press conference,
he said that even if we were to engage in naval hostilities
with Japan, there would be no let-up in our sending sup
plies to England. The Administration stand is that, risky
as the Iease-lend bill policy may be, it contains the greatest
assurance of American security with the least risk of war.;
If we went to war, it is apparent that, at the begin
ning, our participation would involve the navy and per-j
haps the air force, not the army. Britain could
use our fighting fleet—the great British navy, which has
sustained heavy losses, is spread out dangerously thin.
must command the North Sea, the Mediterranean, and a
considerable part of the Far and Near East. She must con
vov the merchant ships that bring her supplies from the
New World and Oceania. Her fighting force in the
is inferior to Japan’s. Britain has plenty of men m khaki
today—she hasn’t enough floating gun platforms.
In theory, if we should go to war with Germany, Ja
pan would at once attack us. She might attempt to seize
the Philippines and the lesser Pacific islands which fly the
American flag. And then what might prove one of the
greatest naval wars of all time would begin.
There is still another possibility here. Britain appar
ently fears that Japan is about to embark on new' adven
tures of her own—toward Indo-China, the Netherlands
possessions, or even Singapore, key to the East. Large num
ber* of the famed Australian troops have been sent to the
Singapore garrison. Enough planes have also been sent, it
is reported, to give Britain superiority in the air in that
area—the Japanese air force is not especially large, and
the.sons of Nippon aren’t supposed to be much as pilots,
At the same time, Britain w'ould have a tough job on her
hands resisting a full-dress attack by the Japanese fleet,
Many observers think that if Japan does make her
we will step in — that the buglers on our warships will
sound Battle Stations, and it won’t be for practice.
think we might also help if Japan went after the Crown
colony of Hongkong—a position which is virtually mde
fensihle from land, and can only be protected by sea power.
It should become clear before long that Hitler’s spring
strategy will be — a drive through the Balkans, an attempt
at invasion of England, a Japanese push in the East, or.
perhaps, a combination of all three. In the meantime, this
country is not nearly so far from war as the majority of
its people, judging by polls, hope.
llcfmsi* inti*rnt4uiiwn 1 tut fusing
News of our own defense program is confusing. The
pessimists say that everything has bogged down, and that
chaos rules. The optimists say all is going well. The truth j
seems to lie between. Industry is at last getting geared to
defense production—a tremendous job, for which it had
little experience. And some of the bugs have been ironed
out in the various government defense bureaus.
Production is nothing to write home about, as yet.
However, some of the coolest observers think this situa
tion will undergo real change before long—that, once the
stage is all set, a great flood of materials will pour forth.
Defense officials have been chary of diverting peace
time production—now it seems that we must reduce the
manufacture of some ordinary goods. We can’t build for,
war and maintain normal production at the same time.!
Don’t be surprised if next year the custom of bringing out
new model cars is temporarily abandoned.
So far, there has been no severe price problem—no
need for strict government control. All hope that situa
tion will continue.
Some progress is being made toward rearmament—
but we are still a mighty long distance from our goal.
Newsweek recently surveyed the picture. According to it,
on January 1 we had planes—goai 4,000 army planes—goal is 37,000.
We had 2,590 navy is 16.000. We had 1,000
tanks and combat cars—goal is 6.500. We had 600,000
soldiers—goal is 1,500,000. A good many of the planes, as
army men have testified, are trainers or are obsolete. And;
a large proportion of the soldiers are new conscripts, with
a year to go before they will be versed in the military arts.
So far. of course, the defense program has been large
ly in the tooling and plant expansion stage. And it will re
main in that stage for some time to come, in the opinion of
production men. Most of what we are producing now is
going abroad. There is no expectation of building our own
military establishment to formidable dimensions in less
than a year. The navy program will require five years. 1
(Largest Coverage Any Weekly In the State)
GENEALOGY
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UNITED DAUGHTERS OF
THE CONFEDERACY
BLACKBURN
Note—The name Blackburn has
been mixed and confused as
Blackborn, Blackbourne, Black
bern, and Blackburn—And people
by the names can be found in the
1790 census from S. C. to Penn.
People bearing the name in 1790
were several.
In 1804, according to the Ogle
thorpe co., Ga., land lottery draw
ing for Revolutionary soldiers or
their widows, Polly Blackburn, a
widow, had two draws.
In 1308 according to the Mor
gan co., Ga., deed books, Wm.
from Edward Maynard, Franklin
co ’> Ga > to Charles Loyd, Clarke
^ ^ ^ ^ ^
eo Ga deed bookSi John A
Blackburn, and Ransom Atkins, J.
P. witnessed a deed from Maiies,
(or Miles), Gathright, Jackson co.,
Ga., to Littleberry Shields, Frank
lm ®°-< Ga -
^ Hall co
f Blackburn owned land in the
county.
In 1825, according to the Ga,
general land lottery drawing, Step
hen Blackburn drew one land
m Screven co., Ga
m In J, 825 ’. in ^ ls drawing - '^ oh "
’
In 1825 in thig dra wing , Jesse
Blackburn drew one land lot in
Wilkes co., Ga.
in 1825, in this drawing. Nathan
Blackburn, a Revolutionary soldier.
Jew one land lot in Wilkes co.,
a '
n lg25 jn this drawjng John
Blackborn (or Blackburn), drew
one land in Linco i n co., Ga.
j n 1820 , according ^ the Jones
co., Ga., marriage records, John
L. Blackburn married Miss Mary
Milner. Ceremony by Elijah Moses,
G
,
Nancy Blackburn married John
Hawthorn. Ceremony by M.
Mitchell,
In 1833, according to an old law
book, John Blackbourne, (or
Blackburn), Zebulon Ga., was one
of th ® incorporators of the Western
This .^Broad wa, intended to
Ga Later it was built on
Marthasville, Ga., now called At
lanta. And in 1941 is called the
Central By. of Ga.
Note—This John or possibly his
son was in Jones co., Ga. in 1808.
In 1843, according to the Wil
kinson co., Ga., marriage records,
Thomas Blackbun, (or Blackburn)
married Miss Ellefair Jones. Cere
mony by Wm. Ross J.
In 1790, according to the U. S.
Census of Penn., Thomas and
Thomas Blackburn are listed.
In 1790, according to the U. S.
^ Vs of S. C., Gabriel Black-
' is listed.
In 1790 according to the U. S.
census of’Williamsburg co., S. C.,
G«rbiel Blackborn was living in
the co., without sons but with three
females and one slave,
Note—This county now adjoins
Georgetown co.. ... e ao<
"wM
Black
River sec tion.
Tbe county was surveyed in 1735
and by 1737 much of it had been
settled. Many of the settlers of this
co came b y boat from as far nortb
-
as Pe " n Al tl ^ se ."’ ere
^ „ ' '1941
jn find
many Frt ies.
In 1790, S. Census takers
called the aiv Prince Frederick’s
parish.
The next subject will be
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