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About The Dade County times. (Trenton, Ga.) 1908-1965 | View Entire Issue (June 29, 1944)
Devoted to The Best Interests of Dade County and NUMBER 23.—VOLUME 44. U.S. Sea, Air Power Blasting the THE WORLD HAS NEVER WITNESSED WAR MAKING TO EQUAL PRESENT EFFORT OF THE UNITED STATES. The sweep and scope of the wars in which this na¬ tion is engaged represent the most stupendous mar¬ tial enterprise in the history of the world. Not only have we thrown immense forces into action against Germany but we are pushing a relentless offensive a- The statement does not of our effort which began with miraculous production, was fur¬ thered by long lines of trans¬ port oer distant seas and now culminates in decisive punches delivered many thousands of miles from their continental or¬ igin. Sober calculation presents the accomplishment of seemingly impossible tasks. What has been done in the production of war material has not been equalled in the world before. No nation has ever mastered the difficulties of distance by such marvels of transportation and the con¬ struction of base facilities. We doubt if any other country has exceeded us in the mobilization and training of fighting men. This splendid record, however, is not enough to win the war. It must be topped by fighting skill, requiring intelligence and courage on the part of soldiers, sailors and airmen. Everywhere our fighting men have demon¬ strated and, consequently, they have what it takes everywhere, the war goes .well with our side. GEAMANY TO BE CRUSHED TO DEATH While the capture of Cher¬ bourg represents only a phase of our preparation for a more vigorous application of force to western Europe the plight of Germany, now a besieged nation, utterly surrounded by powerful combatant forces, emphasizes the amazing success that has crowned Allied arms. From Norway to Spain, on the Atlantic, 3,500 miles, the Nazis are on the defensive. From Spain to Russia, including the Med¬ iterranean fronts, the foe is reeling along the entire 2,000 miles. The eastern front, where the Red army prepares to strike is another precarious 2,000 miles. The Arctic sea, from Russia a- bove the Scandinavian countries, is dominated by our sea and air forces. This is a long battle-line, nearly 10,000 miles of front, which the Germans must hold or suffer defeat. It is crumbling already in Italy, in the Balkans, in Russia and, now, even in France. While Germany has ex¬ erted her full strength in com¬ bat thq United Nations are just beginning to bring up their re¬ serves. At bay on land, helpless at sea and battered unmercifully from the air the “master race’’ bit¬ terly fights to delay its inevit- able doom. Hitler and his as¬ sociates know that the stage is being set for the largest and most powerful attack ever de¬ livered against one country. It will come from three sides, east, west and south and, possibly, from the north as well. It will drop from the skies. Facing this peril, the Reich, blockaded at sea, cannot secure vitally need¬ ed raw materials. JAPAN ALMOST HELPLESS IN DEFENSE ThScontribution of the United StateSTo the war in Europe can¬ not be measured solely by the number of fighting men in Italy and in France. Our airmen range the continent and our weapons and supplies strengthen all Al¬ lied armies. Our Navy, too, adds power to the concentrated fury that surrounds the Nazis. Even so, the nation is carry¬ ing on a powerful offensive in the distant waters of the Pacific, where Japan, like Germany, finds her front gradually contracting and threatening to strangle the so-called greater co-prosperity sphere of the arrogant Asiatics. Distance in the Pacific war is the full magnitude tremendous. Our ships, planes and men are in action from the Kurilies to the Marshalls, 3.200 miles apart; the are battering the long souhern line that stretches 5,200 miles westward from the Marshalls to Sumatra; they are on the 2,000 stretch of the Indian ocean and Burma fronts and they assist the Chin¬ ese in the 2,000 mile battle line that splits that country. The attack upon Saipan, 1500 miles from Tokyo, demonstrates the striking power of our fleet. Capture of the island air-bases presents our B-29 bombers with an opportunity, in time, to de¬ liver multiplied bomb loads upon Japanese industries. The ser¬ ious nature of the threat, in¬ volved in the Saipan operation, is seen in the stirring of the Japanese fleet which, for the first time in two years, ventures ino range of our fleet-based planes. Back of the present position of our Navy in its war against Ja¬ pan is a long oceanic line of sup¬ ply, over which men and supplies have been pouring for many months. As islands were captur¬ ed, construction crews created necessary fleet facilities, so that ships and aircraft could operate against the enemy. At home new warships were rushed to com¬ pletion ahead of schedule and today the Pacific ocean is rapidly coming under American control. DEVASTATING INSTRUMENT OF DESTRUCTION This week, in reviewing the war, we have not space to list the details of advance in Italy, in France, and the Pacific. We ing on December 20, 1943. This recent shot gives promise of more and waves of B-29's speeding express to Tokyo. Bombing of Japan by Superfortresses Boosts Spirits of Bell Plant The great day that was com¬ ing arrived last Thursday, June 15, when B-29 superfortresses made a mess of the Yawata steel mills, backbone of Japan’s in¬ dustrial power. Tons and tons of bombs dropped from the mighty B-29s made the difference be¬ tween the once humming “Pitts¬ burg of Japan” and a high-pilled flaming wreck symbolic of the Rising Sun’s funeral pyre. News of the bombing operation was no more of a surprise to the slit-eyes han it was to Bell workers, 82 per cent of them Georgians, who had worked hard and long at getting the Flying Fortress’ big brother into the air ljanes of the war. After one spontaneous outburst, however, workers took the good news in their stride. Rather than cele¬ brating, they evidenced a grim Published Weekly — Since 1901. TRENTON. GEORGIA, JUNE 29, 1944. 5 ederal Agencies Asked To Curtail on-Essential Travel If the federal government would set an example in holding to ja minimum traveling by its employes, the general public un¬ doubtedly would be more dis¬ posed to think twice before tak¬ ing a non-essential trip. And if government agencies will com¬ ply with the request of the reg¬ ional Office of Defense Trans¬ portation this could all brought about. The ODT has called upon all government agencies to their traveling, forecasting 1944 may be “the biggest con¬ vention year in recent The ODT has sent to the government agencies, along with its appeal, a program which gests these steps: 1. Greater use of mail, tele¬ phone and telegraph to help duce the necessity of travel; In case where travel is necess¬ ary, a reduction in the of persons sent on such trips; discouragement of travel on in¬ tercity public carriers during nual leaves. ODT’s letter further that “it is now necessary, in the interest of war transporation needs, that government refuse to participate in any con- ventipn which will not demon¬ strably contribute to the short¬ ening of the war.” Mr. E. R. Brandon is ill at his home here. want our readers to appreciate the war effort that the nation is making, its successful tri¬ umph over difficulties and the terrific power that is being ap¬ plied to our enemies. The year 1944 finds the Unit¬ ed States wielding the most de¬ vastating instrument of destruc¬ tion that the art of warfare ever witnessesd. It is being used in the defense of this country, after we were attacked by a combination of vicious and un¬ scrupulous enemies and it is slowly destroying the power these evil nations to inflict tyranny upon us and the nations of the earth. in the that “their” planes had blasting the Japs in their bailiwick. Production buckled right back down to business of getting more to where they can do the good. In a message to the men women of the Bell Bomber Robert P. Patterson, Under- retary of War, said in part, hardest battles lie ahead. need your unfaltering help support in sending more more planes against the until final victory is ours.” It can now be revealed the sky giant known as the Bell-built at Marietta, has a span of 141.2 feet ly half a city block); that towering dorsal fin is as tall as three-story house; that its J. C. (Buck) Pace Appointed County Forest Fire Ranger Given Official Badge of Office; To Have Office in Courthouse J. C. (BUCK) PACE, of Trenton, has been named Dade County forest fire ranger and at the meeting of the Board of Directors at the court house here Sat¬ urday afternoon was given the official badge of office. Mr. Pace will take office 1st). Lions Club Installs New Officers Night at Rising Fawn T. S. Rfcnfroe, popular of the local Georgia Power Com¬ pany office here, was as president of the Dade Lions Club at a meeting held Rising Fawn Tuesday night the coming year. The other officers of the are: 1st vice president, Tate; 3rd vice president, J. Bobo; secretary and Bice; 2nd* vice president, H. L. C. Adams; Lion Tamer, F. Wyatt; Tail Twister, Fred erson. Directors: J. M. W. F. Morrison, A. L. Dyer, E. Ellis. Lion J. M. Carroll, the ing president, praised the members for their cooperation during his term office. Under the able of Lion Carroll, several of benefit to the community undertaken. Lion Renfroe acepted the of¬ fice and called for the same it of cooperation from the that has been given the presidents. He stated that he is going do all in his power to uphold splendid record that has made by Lion Carroll. Renfroe is an energetic ness man. His courtesy arid tention to business details sure the club of a capable Prof. J. Nelson Roach was visitor at the club meeting. Roach is the new principal the Dade County High It is the duty and the of the Lions Club to work the leaders of the youth of County. Prof. Roach whs ex¬ tended a hearty welcome to Lions Club and to Dade Tommy Gray of Fort thorpe, Ga., spent with his parents here. Board of Education Elects Teachers For 1944-1945 Term At a recent meeting of Dade County Board of held here at the court house, following teachers were for the 1944-1945 school DADE HIGH—J. Nelson Principal; Mrs. J. L. Fricks, J. M. Carroll, Mrs. L. M. This leaves two places, the Home Ec Department, to filled in the high school. ELEMENTARY DEPT. — Jimmie B. Carroll, Mrs. Ellis, Mrs. Thelma Bell, Azilee W. Moore, Mrs. Rubye Yarbrough. (One place to be ed) . RISING FAWN—F. A. Principal; Mrs. Venetia S. Mrs. R. P. Fricks, Mrs. Blake, Mrs. B. B. Kenimer, Edna Forester, Mrs. J. Z. Miss Irene Forester. NORTH DADE—Principal to elected; Mrs. Mary H. Cole, A. F. Patterson, Mrs. Willie Hughes, Mrs. C. P. Donahue, Nae C. Craig. (Leaving places besides the pricipal to filled). Teachers for the Davis School have not been by the trustees. All other ers to be elected at a later A. L. Dyer Elected Mayor of Trenton Following the resignation W. A. Scruggs, who gave up Mayorship of Trenton some days ago, A. L. Dyer, merchant, lumberman and ness man, was elected in a ed election held here Mr. Dyer was opposed by Lewis McBryar, and final tion gave the former a 26-14 cision. Marion Bice was elected as member of the City Council fill the vacancy made by Case, who is in the Armed Singing At Next Sunday, July John Warren has plans for the annual all singing which is to be held Cloverdale next Sunday. According to John (and he in a position to know), this is be a “powerful” good even better than with a number of quartets, tors, classes, etc., scheduled be on hand. A variety of books, both Zions Call and latest publications of the Baxter Music company, will used, and lovers of real are urged to attend. And, in meantime, “fill up a basket” bring it along. Ice Cream Supper Rising Fawn Fri. The Womans Society of tian Service of the Church at Rising Fawn, will tertain with an Ice Cream per on the lawn of Mr. and L. M. Allison Friday night, 30th. Benefits to be used to song books for the church. Everyone is cordially to come and help out in worthy cause. j tors are 2,200 horepower jobs; ■ that the four-bladed 1 are the largest ever installed ; an airplane; that the ship is | aerodynamically clean that resistance is doubled when ing gear is lowered. The Marietta facility produc¬ ing superfortresses in has correspondingly vast propor¬ tions. If this one plant site be placed down over the com¬ bined areas occupied by the merican aircraft industry on notorious Sunday in 1941, the one would very cover the other. The facility as much paved tarffic ways includes as much materials as would be to build a city the size of Ga. The factory building has more than 60 miles of fluor¬ escent lights. Dade County’s Only Newspaper. PER YEAR. Judge J. M. Carroll, repre¬ senting the Board of Directors, the county government and the newly-organized Dade County Protective Unit, presented the badge of office to Mr. Pace. The new ranger, a native of Dade County, has for many years been a farmer and timber- man. He will patrol the forests of Dade County through¬ out the entire year and will be aided by watchmen who will man lookout points on the crest of Lookout Mountain. Under the set up, the State Forestry Department is putting up 40 per cent of the cost of the service, as against 60 per cent furnished by J. M. Carroll, or¬ dinary. At a meeting held here Saturday afternon it was stated by J. F. Pullen, District Forester, that fire fighting equipment, consisting of rakes, flaps and small pumps are to be furnished by the Department of Forestry. The Tennessee Valley Au¬ thority is cooperating in this movement, and a representative attended the meeting of board of directors here Saturday. The board of directors include Roy Moore, Roy Johnson, J. P. Lambert, A. W. Peck, W. E. Pike, J. V. Richards and J. M. Carroll. The establishment of this fire protection unit in Dade County is the result of an expression of interest shown by community leaders and county officials in organized fire control, and a budget of $3,400, with sixty per cent of the funds to be supplied by the county, has been made available for this purpose. The County Ranger’s head¬ quarters will located in the court house here, and will be connected by telephones, with lines running direct to the look¬ out posts. The principle objectives of this program are: 1. To acquaint the people of Dade County with the work and personnel of the fire protection organization. 2. To help create an "anti¬ forest fire” public attitude. 3. To collect data on the fire situation and on those physical features which influence fire control. The mountain section, as well as the valleys in Dade have al¬ ways needed this protection to guard against raging fires which destroy thousands of feet of cimber, young growth and wild life each year. Certainly this is a wise step on the part of our county and no doubt, such a movement will pay its way many, many times in the prevention of fires. Young Democrats Make Final Plea Going into the final lap in their efforts to get the ballot to all Georgia men and women in the amed forces, the Young Democratic Clubs of Georgia point out that there is still time to get the ballot to a service man, if he is in this country, and for him to return it to his home county. “Particularly is this true,” said Robert N. Fellows, president of the state organization, “since the Wjar Ballot Commission ruled that the registration card and the ballot may be sent in the same envelope, which the Post Office Department handles by air mail and free of postage.” Mrs. E. R. Brandon and son Dennis spent the week-end with her husband, E. R. Brandon, at the Oak Ridge (Tenn.) Project.
