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iday. August 27, 1942
arrived safely in England
Gee, we can hardly believe these
boys whom we have always known
and gone to school with be
those faraway can in
countries . . . Carter
is enjoying a 14 day fur .
I before being inducted into
1 le Arrn y We remember
1 ® wizard Carter • • • what
use to be on those
| ln verbs and how Rosie would
! r u ‘ at red hair of his trying
10 work thos e Algebra problems,
how Bache would almost
I ^ down lh e >oof m our Senior
^ _ foot he w «uiId How come Elbert to school
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1 « us a P lec e of candy to help
; him ln Clvil Gov,t and how Hollen
^, <mld ar S ue With Miss Hooper in
j 5,1 ^ literature How Duna
. . .
' was a classm ate for the whole
I 11
J ears - We started to school to
| gether that very first day down in
the Primer and finished together
I that night we received our dip
! lomas from high school . . . Now
| these boys have all grown up and
j always are on land, sea, and air, but it's
j these little things they did
| that keep comes and to our mind. May God
I you help you, friends and
classmates ’ T,n Pan AJJ en,
l „ Er e rVf? , D e T e Laverne Cowan
i and w Clifford n’* Oates expect
i to be
| in the Army soon . . Harold
.
j I Rollins is working on a defense
project in Baltimore. In a letter he
says “Grady Barnes, J. B. Pat
terson and William Jeffaries and
j his from wife me.” live right “Miss up the street
| . . . Annie” stop
j Home ped by and presented us with our
Nursing certificate from the
! Red Cross t'other day and it js
very pretty, printed in red and
white . . . “Tot” Goodman has
been visiting in town for a couple
of weeks . . . Obie Moore’s gilest
orterdale
rattle
Bv MART ‘ ANE
folks. The fleet’s in~and
those sailors look swell in
pretty white uniforms!
Pete. Ray, Gene.
Is Virgil—all our pals.
ereenv, 1 like she's
lale feels just
the Navy and she is well
g Word from Lut
mtfa Lyberry . he will be
says
* tell the cops
s ooa and to
', orne and stay there
cause he’s going to be
| •,,'upn lie gets home to see
he isn't going to know
* ! j t Bache Walden was
8 we ek on a furlough from
my .. Latest word from
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of our childhood.
At our mother's knee and in the
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taught that there is a God who
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mankind. Though our faith may
be sorely tried and our hearts
troubled, we were taught to cling j !
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\ WEEK OE THE WAR'
Summarizing Information On The Important Develop
ments Of The War, Made Available By
Official Sources Through
—five O’Clock P. M., Monday, August 24, 1942.—
War Production Chairman Nel
| son tj announced Board is the War Produc
on rerating every pro
i ec t in the war program to se
cure the “maximum impact on the
enemy now.” Combat planes, par
Ocularly bombers, are at the top
of this new list, Mr. Nelson said.
Chairman Nelson reported the
u - s - J ’s now producing munitions
three and a half times the rate in
November 1941, the month before
Pear] Harbor. July production,
he said, was 16 percent above
June production, but 7 percent
short of production forecasts made
at the beginning of July. “The
big job ahead of us right now is to
bring our program into balance
and make sure that we use our
materials and facilities as wisely
as possible,” he said. '‘This means
that we must redouble our efforts,
particularly on the low spots, if
we are t0 ma ke our goals by the
year’s end.’*
Craft production increased 11
percent in July over June out-put,
Mr. Nelson said. Although com
bat plane production rose 6 per
cent, it was not up to expectations.
He also reported: overall ordnance
production in July increased 26
percent over June output, and
was very close to schedules; pro
duction of medium tanks was 35
percent greater than in the pre
vious month and considerably
ahead of schedules; light tanks up
15 percent also were ahead of
schedules; antiaircraft guns ex
ceeded by “A wide margin”; mer
chant ships were up 6 percent and
“nearly on schedule for the
month’; deliveries of major naval
combat vessels were ahead of those
in June and “considerably ahead
of forecasts.”
Gen. MacArthur’s headquarters
in Australia reported allied fight
er pilots using new battle tactics
shot down at least 13 Japanese
planes, and probably 15 or more,
out of an enemy fleet of 47 which
attacked Darwin. No allied planes
were iost. The Navy reported the
Marines’ hold on at least three of
the Solomon Islands is now well
established. When 700 Japanese
counter-attacked on one of the
Islands 670 were killed and the
other 30 taken prisoners, Pacific
from Atlanta has been attracting
ouite a bit of attention . . . Those
beautiful masculine voices heard at
Fellowship meeting on Sunday
nights belong to Moore, Vining,
Payne and Statham . . . Our sym
pathy goes out to the family of
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Edwards in the
loss of Mrs. Edward’s mother,
Mrs. Farrow . . « Ca«rter Moody
was honored with a farewell party
up at the Burch’s Friday night
. . .
J. B. Burch will be ordained a
minister at the Sunday revival
services at the Baptist church.
Folks will be missing Miss Bar
bara Davis who is leaving us Sun
day . . . Opal K. was too tired to
move her chair in the drugstore
t’other night, but when Buck sug
gested going dancing her fatigue
vanished! . . . Did Pop Gates give
out of gas? . . . How does Neal
Wheeler get to work with his eyes
shut? . . . Did Ralph Capes buy
out the telephone company Wed
nesday night ? . . . What hap
pned to those notes Tom Bailey
was going to send us ? . . . Thanx
to George Pittman for the swell
guest column last week . . . Fred
Daniel looks handsome in his
Junior Guardsman uniform . . .
(Or is that what you call it? The
uniform we mean) . . . Christine
Rye has been ill . . . W r hy was
Allen Harper late for work Thurs
day ? . . . Why did Freddie Tan
ner have egg yolk all over his
shirt front Sat. ? Junior Bow
den has percxided his hair a mean
1 ed! . . . Whom did Mary Adams
hypnotize and who took her home
from work one night when she
had to rest and stayed until 2;30?
. . Pat Patterson was home over
.
the week end. Pat is working in
Rockmart . . . Mr. and Mrs. Jack
Wheeler are visiting in Detroit . . .
Mildred Yancey leaves the first of
September to enter Emory Hos
pital for training . . . George Pitt
man will l^egin his Junior year at
Piedmont, Sept. 12 , . Bill Stat
ham and Blackie Jefferies staged
a. fine bowling exhibition at the
Covington bowling alley Friday
night. (What was the score,
boys?) Mr. J. T. Mills, from Bir
mingham, Ala., visited his mother,
Mrs. Lizzie Mills and sister, Mrs.
John Day, last week * . . Pop Gates
Sr., will probably look twice next
time before he thinks we are
Melba . • • EVESDIiOPPING
EVILS Henry Lee Vining at
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the drugstore counter (to Kirk):
“What kind of ice-cream do you
have ?”
Kirk, “Chocolate, Vanilla,
strawberry, Peach, Butter Pecan,
cheery, etc.”
Henry Lee, “I’ll take a Pepsi
I cola!'” ’
We'll say so long on that one,
folks.
See you next week.
Flash Lane,
Fleet Commander Nimitz report
ed. The Marine losses were 28
killed and 72 wounded. Admiral
NWiitz also announced a force of
Marines made a successful land- ,
ing on Makin Island, killed 80
Japanese, wrecked various in- |
stallations and then withdrew.
U ,S. Army Headquarters, Eu
ropean Theater, announced ar-;
rival in Britain of the largest 14 S. j
convoy of the war, with more men ;
and material for the American j
Air Forces which had already be
gun precision bombing by daylight
of Nazi-occupied Europe. U. S.
flying fortresses bombed the Nazi
transportation system at Amiens j
and Abbeville. In a battle over
the North Sea, four flying fortress
es shot down three German fight- I
ers and damaged nine others, j
while all the U. S. planes returned
safely. A U. S. ranger battalion j j
joined with Canadian and British
forces in a nine-hour raid on |
Dieppe, France. The Navy re- j
ported U. S. submarines in the I
Aleutians and in the far East sank I
a cruiser or destroyer and dam
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aged another cargo ship. The i
torpedoing of seven more Uaitecl
Nations Merchantmen by enemy
submarines was announced.
Foreign Relations
President Roosevelt and Secre- { j
tary of State Hull sent messages
of solidarity to Brazil as that i
Country became the first South
American nation to declare war
on Germany and Italy. The Presi
dent said Wendell L. Willkie will
tour Europe and the Near East as
his special representative in order
to correct the impression in those
places that U. S. Production is not
all it should be. Mr. Willkie will
carry messages from the President
to Foreign Leader:,, including
Premier Stalin. The President j
issued a statement that the per- j
petrators of “Barbaric” acts in
occupied stand in the Countries courts of “will law” have in the to j j
same Countries in which Bar
barism now rages, and answer in
those courts for their crimes.
Army and Navy
The War Department said it I
will inaugurate this Fall a volun
tary pre-induction training pro
gram utilizing existing facilities
of schools and colleges to meet
present and future needs for prop
erly trained personnel in the arm
ed forces. Out of every 100 men
inducted into the army, about 63
are assigned to duties requiring
specialized training, the^ Depart
ment said. The Army said it is
organizing and training port bat
talions (composed mostly of form
er Stevedores) for duty overseas
to insure prompt handling of U.
S. military equipment for forces
stationed throughout th« world.
The Department said checks in
payment of allowances to depend
ents of enlisted men of the army.
| covering the first applications to
be approved, will go out shortly
j after September 1.
The Navy announced recruit
ing of enlisted personnel of the
Women’s Naval Reserve will be
gin September 11, and training
will start October 9 at the Uni
versity of Wisconsin, Indiana Uni
i versity and Oklahoma A. and M
j i college,
Selective Service
Selective Service Director Her- j
1 s hey said draft boards will begin |
calling men with dependents be
j f ore Christmas. He said single
men with “secondary” dependents,
suc h as aged or crippled relatives,
will be called first; married men
whose wives work, next; then men
; with dependent wives; and final
ly men who have wives and chil
dren. He said the reservoir of
1-A men throughout the Country
is “practically exhausted.” Select
j V e Service headquarters said
Class 1-B (men fit for limited
i military service only) will be
eliminated, and beginning Sep
tember 1, all registrants who are
no t totally disqualified will be re
| classified in 1-A, while those not
suited for any military service will
f, e placed n 4-F. In the case of
m en reclassified in 1-A, the army
will determine after induction
j whether they will be assigned to
1 f u ]j or limited service,
Stabilization of Farm Prices
j Secretary of Agriculture Wick
I arc j s aid he would approve a plan
1 0 f livestock ceiling prices which
j “must not permit abnormal prof
r s to anyone in the industry at
( the expense of the producers or
j consumers.” Mr. Wickard also
S aid he now favors repeal of the
provision of the price control act
“that prohibits ceilings on pro
cessed farm products if the ceiling
price reflects a farm price of less
than 110 percent of parity.” He
said farm prices “have reached
parity on an average.” The WPB
j food requirements committee Lend- ask
ed the armed, forces, the
Lease Administration, and the
War Production Board to collab
orate in working out a program
for allocation of all,government
meat purchases as equitably as
possible among federally inspect-
THE COVINGTON NEWS
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FRONT.
om« or war inf OR „at,on
SCORES of trucks and busses
in the southeastern states are al
ready idle—chocked up on wood
en blocks without tires. That’s
solemn news for the home front.
News that our boys have begun
to recapture tropic rubber shores
from Japan is cheering, but rub
ber for civilians is still out of the
picture. Folks who travel are go
i ng to get their toes stepped on
and find many an elbow in their
faces in transportation jams by
September, says ODT. Drivers
are warned to save tires by re
during speeds and making fewer
stops.
Europe’s Food Shortage
While our government is buying
millions of pounds of vegetables
to ship our fighting men, short
ages barrass the conquered peo
ple of Europe. In Norway, onions,
picked in a marsh, were sold at
49 ce nts a pound,
Could you feed five people on
two pounds of vegetables a week?
In France, former land of good eat
ing, that’s about all there is to
keep the conquered citizens alive,
Dairy products are so scarce that,
in Germany, they’re using lubri
eating oil for butter.
Large Crops Here
WPB figures show 350,000.000
quarts of food will be canned in
the southeast this year, and farm
ers are producing record amounts
of wheat, corn, cheese, eggs, poul
t ry and cereals. The government
j s paying good prices in the South
f or dehydrated potatoes, onions,
cabbage, beets, carrots and tur
nips. Millions of pounds are need
ed for the army.
OPA now believes there will be
no decrease in the amount of our
sugar rations for at least another
year. Sugar stamp No. 8 is good
for five pounds, but it must last
over a longer period of time.
Work Clothing Pegged
During the last war the mail or
der price of overalls jumped from
g2c to $2.95. A new rise was
threatened last week, but OPA
took steps to see that work cloth
} ng doesn’t skyrocket this time,
Boy Scouts have volunteered to
help control inflation by deliver
ing leaflets which explain price
control to every home in the
country.
Junior Salvage Corps
School children will be organiz
ed into a “Junior Salvage Corps”
to conduct a house-to-house scrap
canvass starting October 5 . . .
Some war relics are being scrap
ped to relieve the acute metal
shortage, but things of true his
toric value should not be sacri
ficed until we clean out all the
back-yard junk.
The ornamental yucca plant is
going to pinch-hit for hemp and
jute fibers which we used to get
from the Far East. It can be used
to make rope, twine, burlap, and
materials used in mattresses and
in upholstery.
Civil Service announces many
job openings connected with the
war effort. The post office can
furnish details.
AGRICULTURE YEARBOOK
The new 1942 Year book of Agri- I
culture, “Keeping Livestock Heal
thy” places emphasis on prevent
ing livestock diseases, including
those caused by infectious organ
isms, insects and other parasites. ;
malnutrition, and other causes.
Secretary of Agriculture Wickard.
in a foreword *-° the book j
’ An y° ne wha kee P 3 livestock
fldentl a J arge y expect or ® ma to 1 profit sca f by alay apply- c ° n ' |
’ ng m i >dera dlsease -control prac
tices his daily farm °P eratlorls -
The book 1S now bein ?' dl ® tnbu ^ e d
by the Government Printing Of- .
fice>
ed packers. The Agricultural
Marketing Administration bought
$137,900,000 worth of foodstuffs
during July for the United Nations
and other requirements, including
80,000 pounds of dehydrated beef.
Rationing
Tire quotas will have to follow
a downward trend the rest of this
year to keep within the amount of
rubber earmarked by the WPB for
the purpose, the Office of Price
Administration said. The Office
asked local rationing boards for
the “strictest possible interpre
tation” of a recent amendment to
tire rationing regulations restrict
ing truck eligibilty to vehicles es
sential to the war effort or public
health and safety.
Oil and Gasoline
W r PB Chairman Nelson appoint
ed under Secretary of War Pat
terson, Petroleum Coordinator
Ickes and Price Administrator
Henderson as a committee to de
termine whether fuel oil should be
rationed in the East Coast Area
this winter. Because of the short
age of fuel oil in the area, Mr.
Ickes prohibited the hauling of
automotive gasoline by rail in 20
middle Western and Southwestern
States in order to divert enough
tank cars to carry 100,000 barrels
of fuel oil daily to the rationed
area. If the withdrawal of these
5,000 to 7,000 tank cars creates a
shortage, rationing should be ex
tended, Mr. Ickes said. i
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