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THE |A1 ICR BOX ♦ ♦ ♦ County •• State / the OtriW- BOY day evening at 8:30 we > s Surely Ho ly Ground. no •ould have been more 1 jr the double wedding which united in mar brter 'S5H han tlier "Hi"” on L album • bridesmaids • . t of Honor . . . best men iers and we did not see ore after our own Mr. ad Mr. Wick placed the blonde and brunette sis he hands of their sweet i be made man and wife ®usiq rendered by Mrs. fuck, the soft glow of of slender white tapers eritable garden of palms urns of snow white glads . white asters . . . the our own lovely Turner I,. And Gosh! there we a mere Office Boy try lie [lovelier it all in ... never have brides in their wedding gowns and veils of long, long ago ... as hived thru those sacred [ of long, long ago ... as led with them the sacred , but as happy as each fas we somehow always i feeling in their hearts pang like the point of a t giving up our sons and s... the earnest prayer iete happiness, peace and tiding ... a perfect home J I do, the joy of gaining two Iv sons on the one hand liters on the other. Then D looked at the smiling (he two happy couples we ! help but turn back, at |tion which followed the land look at the other two , . Dr. and Mrs. t seemed too perfect ... Mr. and Mrs. Porter arc [nued on Page Seven) |ge I Is Made iail Dispatch Miter E. L. Stephenson k announced a change in ,or ,h * Sur effort to conserve tires the truck will leave Cov i 10o’clock and will arrive la at noon. The difference P ar >d new schedules |>r e time for making the be included in the sacks P l 10 A, M. must be de h the post office not later 5 A. M., Mr. Stephenson (Coicmmtou A Fighting Navy Family i iff- ff MS 5 1 II ; §§p:§ , m x-' f A : If | 11 ! • l>:.If w HltfE m r- OTP i»l ; *. VV V- \ w ¥ : | ill! £ m 1 ' 1 •kl 11 i–c. – ■'■m I fililil OKli m W'A \ m j £ a., at«*j ■■I II ' 1: > I U tillit WM Ii wmmm : : ; ;I; f • ,_b.i Wm ¥ m m M i ii : I*; l holmes M, ot Covlnglon, 1, one of fightin, men kl f 412 Monticello St., served 32 months in Cor g Ban »>« and Spanish-Amer.ean War and now sons the after the pulton uw' r,\ 5 Navy. He is congratulating his 71 on a from the Aviation Machinist’s Mat CL School at H'al ernon. Air Station as a Third Aviation Class Machimst’s Petty Office. Mate - at ’ is a Thhd Class Pensacola, Ha. trt ,*dd Ni James is a Warrant Officer at »vy Photograph.). 78 Georgia Th« Covington Star, JEst" 1874 . Enterprise, E s t. 1864. r- v MONDAY ❖ WILL OPEN NEXT MORNING ❖ ❖ ❖ ❖ ♦ ❖ ❖ ❖ ❖ ❖ Mrs. Branch Speaks - Tonight - For China - Relief REGISTER FRIDAY AT GYMNASIUM Units In County System Will Start Classes On Monday Morning; EAO Opens September 22. Schools in Newton County will open next Monday morning, of ficials said this week, with gisteration to begin tomorrow morning at 9 A. M. C. E. Hawkins, superintendent of the City School system, said that registration would be held in the School gymnaisum at nine o’clock. Beginning Monday morning the schools will open at 8:45 A. M. Opening exercises will be held Monday morning with Rev. J. Foster Young, pastor of the thodist Church and A. Dennis, NEWS publisher, as the j principal speakers, j Mr. Hawkins said that a physi j eal education program had been i planned for every child in the j school this year. Not much em phasis will be placed on basket ball he added. A new course, a j class in Current Events, will also j be available to Juniors and Seniors he continued. New teachers in the City School | (Continued on Page Seven) *%■! Bibo I- IT Employees I To T | a* r UlU > InffPR^P 1 (i£Li vUI * Uj IIILILIUL And Week| V Bonus In addition to a big increase in \ pay on all jobs, all employees | within the Bibb mill yards who I do a full week’s work will receive a two doUar bonus in their pay check e ff ec tive last Monday. This * ,he 1 A general advance in wages in addition to the two dollar bonus I will go into effect at the samel time, that will vary according to j the type of work the employee is, doing but will average about sev en and one-half per cent, announcing a com-1 pany official said in the fourth wage advance in the mills of the Bibb since April, , 1941, bringing the total advance (Continued on Page Five) Due to current war conditions is tire quotas must be reduced in order that the ! Country as a whole may be kept within the year’s quota of rubber ( allotted by the War Production i Board. Local War Price and Rationing Boards ha^e a tremendous job con- i fronting them in that they must allow certificates for tires only to those vehicles most essential to the war effort and to the community. Tire a0use and neglect can not , . lt ou even from these most 0,1 I’-itioning Board has full an thoritv to* deny tires to an appli his tires by overloading and ex „ Mr A * n vehicles can and must use numb er of recapped ; i tia! o unc tions of the t,re9 V-„ ‘community to war effort 1P and (1 are • be maint ained. Every appheant (Cont inued on Page Seven) COVINGTON, GEORGIA Beware. Japs, Here Comes The Marines SjpBWW.WfflWU».>ATR<nj^.w.'j<| r - - .....Y' ’■I;': ., ■ r : iiifiii® • • a > • . ' V ' Y: He '* 5 'js '/r V gi :–* „ | K' ' .............j.,1.. , H 4 ..... . , , - M ■m r 1 •:■••••: 'l * V.V. M g U, I * ■ Jif : S3 m a HI K $?$S If f. # % ' ' I : v# i V ; •• .... r w J : is I w:x ■■■ • ' ><s<f si? . , Si ...... . : mm ■ A: ft- '-MJi This is a Jap’s slant-eye view of how the fighting U. S. Marines look during an invasion. Heavily armed and thirsting for battle, these Marines leap from their landing boat and charge upon the enemy. Scenes such as this took place in the Solomon Islands during the first Allied offensive of the war, and will be re-enacted in future offensives in the Pacific. (Official USMC Photo.) Future Farmers Close Meeting At Jackson Lake Camp Warren Luckey, of Harlem, has been named president of the Geor gia Future Farmers organization for the coming year, T. G. Walters, executive secretary, announced this week. He was elected to succeed Joseph Hood, of Com merce. The new president, selected at the close of the annual FFA con vention at Jackson Lake, was awarded the vocational medal for the most outstanding agricultural for l941-’42. He also received several other honors, including a (Continued on Page Seven) Prof. Lee Harwell T DptflAff MAfirlay For Army Service Professor C. Lee Harwell, since .1936 head of the history depart ment at Emory Junior College, will report for active Army duty at Fort McPherson Monday morning. After preliminary training at Fort McPherson, Professor Harwell will become a candidate for officers schooL Professor Harwell is a graduate Emory University In Atlanta, He is a member of the Alpha Tau omega social fraternity and Phi Beta Kappa. During the absence of Professor Harwell his wife will reside with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Sanders, in Covington. Severe Cut In Tire Quota Predicted FORMS FOR SOLDIER'S VICTORY MAIL ARE NOW AVAILABLE AT POST OFFICE Letters Are Photographed With Micro Film The V-Mail Service, inaugurated cn June 15, 1942, by the Post Of fice Is now past the experimental stage, with each week showing large increases in the number of letters mailed to American soldr iers overseas, E. L. postmaster, said this week. The War Department has in creased its facilities to handle promptly the volume expected in the future. Facilities for photographing and reproducing V-Mail to and from • the United States and the British Isles, Australia, India, Hawaii and other points are now in operation, A similar service is being planned for Iceland and other points where the volume may warrant. Pointing i wuu out that V-Mail pro of . vides a safe means commumca tion with members of our Armed Forces, Mr. Stephenson gave as surance that the film (upon which the communications are reproduc _____________— Agricultural News By County Agent The first 1942 cotton was ginned and sold in the county Tuesday. Not just one bale but four bales went to market. Homer Holifield brought the first bale to Coving ton, and J. H. Dalton and Charlie Knight, on the Perry farm, car ried three bales to Mansfield. Mr. Holifield’s cotton was gin ned at Nixon and Porter Gin. The bale weighed 562 pounds, graded Middling and was bought by T. H. Barnes at 20 cents. This is the fourth consecutive year that Mr. Holifield has had the first bale (Continued on Page Seven) School Heads'Ready For New Year jMK * ' : ' ‘F ' Hi ill v v l 1 w - •i i j Cvy-.i ii : ; asmmtmM « »««« : PBHB— IP, % \ , ; ^ .WAS ^1 ....... ^ HjigjM tltjllf ^ -v jjjj I : C „ , Fira^ett^ qimprintendent of the Covington Public ' Superintendent' Schools «. K , and E. L. i cqu , Oett) • of the Newton c t y School Sy^.^^'hooishee nextMontay n0 ed everything in | readiness for the opening of schools nere next Monday. t THURSDAY, AUGUST 27,1942. Allied Planes In Pacific Smash Ai Japanese Convoy The battle of the Solomons ap parently was raging with increas ed fury and in a widening area yesterday as the Japanese rushed reinforcements for a huge armada seeking to recapture Americaji held shore bases. Locked in thunderous sea and air engagements which may pos sibly determine naval supremacy of the Pacific, American froots inflicted severe damage on en emy warships and planes in the southeastern group of the Solo mons, while about 450 miles west Allied planes from General Mac (Continued on Page Seven) Major M.N. Pharr Reported Missing In Pacific Action Major Marion N. Pharr, who has distinguished himself in the United States flying service since his en listment six years ago, has been reported as missing in action somewhere in the Pacific since August 7, according to information received from the War Depart-1 ment Sunday by his wife, who now is in Roanoke, Va. Mrs. Pharr in formed relatives here of the mes- edl are given the most expeditious dispatch available. Because of the small space taken up by the rolls of film, they often can be carried or. ferry planes or bombers, Every pound of weight which caot be saved on air transports overseas, said Mr. Stephenson, means "that an equivalent amount of weight can be allotted vital mili tar y material, In recognition of this, and in an effort to insure delivery of mail to as many men as possible at overseas destinations when space 1P limited, tne Mar and Navy - parttaents have directed that V Mai l be given priority in dispatch over a11 other classes - including mail — when transportation facilities under control of those departments . r are used, V-Mail letter sheets have been distributed at all post offices; and have been provided all military and naval personnel at overseas points through Army and Navy post offices and military channels. They are available at the Coving ton Post Office. Private firms and Individuals have also been permitted by the Post Office Department to re produce the letter sheets. The sheets also will be available soon to all stores selling stationery. V-Mail Service provides for the use p a t rons 0 f a special letter sheet from which is a combination letter and envelope of uniform size and design. The patron writes his message, completes the name and address of the addressee and the return card in the space pru vided, folds, seals, and mails the letter in the usual manner. Pat runs are warned that only the in j ner or letter side of V-Mail le 1 iers are photographed, and should be j careful to show the complete ad (Continued on Page SevenY Major Pharr is a newphew of Dr. and Mrs. R. J. Sams, of this City and the son of the late L. J. Pharr, prominent Rockdale County j physician. Having been promoted from cap j (Continued on Page Seven) | j Newfon Boy Now in Aircraft Plant A Newton County boy, Samuel ! Cole of Mansfield, has enlisted in ....................... on the home front receiving several months of training and work experience at the War Pro duction Training Project operated by the National Youth Administra tion at West Georgia College in Carrollton. Trained in the machine shop at the West Georgia Resident Center, Young Cole is now employed as ■ a machinist by the Glenn L. Mar tin Aircraft Company in Balti more, Md„ designers of the famous Mars Flying boat. He is the son , Mansfield. C ° 6 ‘ S T f h th , ° few months by the National Youth ^.jUs- n d sound work habits which qua ' ied h m b f. Wv ' ing shops on a full , * time Productior basis, actuary produc.ng valuable l » articles while in training. 1 THIS PAPER IS COVINGTON’S INDEX TO CIVIC PRIDE AND PROSPERITY 5c SINGLE COPY KIWANIANS TO HEAR SPEAKER AT MEET TODAY Mrs. Branch Well-Known To Civic Organizations As Forceful, Dynamic Speaker, Today at noon the Covington Kiwanis Club will climax its sum mer meetings and feature an ad dress by Mrs. J. R. B. Branch, of ; Macon on “China As I Know It.” Mrs. Branch, wife of a noted surgeon, was for twenty-five years a resident of China. Before she left she witnessed some of the j bombings and atrocities which al most daily occur in that blood stained, ancient country. The stories she tells are most vivid to her because she was an eye wit ness of them. Her graphic descrip tions of conditions and needs in China are fair and overpowering. TO OPEN FOR i CONTRIBUTIONS Lecture Tonight At Methodist Church Will Describe Warfare In Far East. Mrs. J. R. B. Branch, for 25 years a resident of China, will speak here tonight at the Metho dist Church at 8;30 o’clock, on the eve of a County-wide campaign to secure funds for the United China Relief organization. Tomorrow morning a group of local citizens will start an inten sified drive to secure contributions for the relief fund. The goal for Newton County was announced as ?800. Mrs. Branch, for many years' an outstanding leader in the Amer ican colony in Shanghai, is th« wife of a well known surgeon. Foi a number of years he was connect ed with the National Medical School in Shanghai and it was dur«» ing that time that Mrs. Branch se« cured her first hand information that makes her 'addresses extre* mely interesting. Mrs. Branch was in Shanghai when Japanese planes and troop* | bombed that City, thus her ac counts on warfare in the far east j is authentic as well as inlorma tive. With America's entry into the war Dr. and Mrs. Branch returned to the United States and are now making their home in Macon, Since her return, Mrs. Branch has been in great demand as a speaker and has spoken before numerous organizations in this Country. She has also written many articles for publication in newspapers and ma gazines. Prior to her talk tonight at th* (Continued on Page Seven) Officers Named For EAO Societies At a meeting this week of the Phi Gamma Literary Society of Emory Junior College, Harvey Estes, of Gay, was named presid ent; James Sanders, of Covington, vice president; and Harris Pierce, of Covington, secretary-treasurer. Few Literary Society officer* are Charles Richards, of Greens toro, president; Warren Swain, of Baxley, vice president; and Gor don Hanson, of Savannah, secre tary-treasurer. Fred Smith, of Cedartown, is program chairman for Phi Gamma and Jack Holland, of Lawrence ville, is program chairman for Few. Kivvanian Belmont Dennis, edit or of the News, was in Atlanta one week ago and heard Mrs Branch speak to the Atlanta Kiw anis Club. The address as he heard it was so pointedly appropriate and so vivid in its pieturization of the whole war picture that he wrote an editorial for the News in which he stated that it was “one of the most interesting and force ful indictments of apathy in the (Continued on Page Seven) Oxford Mother Is i I ( Anxiously Wailing ■ For Son's Return When the Gripsholm , landed In j New York last night, one of the happiest and most arfxious people in Atlanta was Mrs. Alice Turner, retired dormitory matron at Em ory University, who was nervously awaiting a call from her son, Wil liam T. Turner, second secretary to the Tokyo embassy until Pearl Harbor, who was on that ship. Mrs. Turner, who completed 19 years’ service at Emory last year, now lives at Emory-at-Oxford, but this week she’s visiting the home of Dr. Nat G. Long, pastor of the Glenn Memorial church in Atlanta. She and her husband, Dr. William T. Turner, were missionaries to Japan until her husband's deatfi 30 years ago. Her son was born in Japan. But he graduated from Emory in 1931. Since that time, Turner, an ex pert in foreign languages, has been a member of the United States diplomatic corps. First, he went (Continued on Page Seven) A Cartoonist At Work m ".'•I: at ’ T "S 1 ■ i Mr m f i| m W j •:V fY. ' ; flliil | ft A m , 1 V 1 ii # * iil r % # II w * IP ‘ I 1; j I *■' . •I'vi I; : W-' A- m ' ■ ran m - Sm i • m ' r. A ■ I: 1 ... i Above is Mitchell Wright in a characteristic pose at his drawing board as it appeared recently in the Augusta Chronicle as he mad* his bow as editorial page cartoonist. His cartoons also appear in the Macon Daily News and the Atlanta Constitution carries a comic strip b> him in the Sunday colored comics. He is the son of Dr. and rs W. C. Wright of this city. » 0 NUMBER 35