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About The Dade County times. (Trenton, Ga.) 1908-1965 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 7, 1944)
Devoted to The Best Interests of Dade County and Georgia. NUMBER 31.—VOLUME 44. Georgia’s Revised Constitution Now Is Taking Shape The commission appointed by Governor Arnall to revise the state's 67-year-old constitution has adjourned until about the middle of September, but in its four days of intensely busy ses¬ sions it achieved a great deal toward modernizing Georgia's basic law. One provision adopted would prohibit the state from going into debt .Urged by Arnall and State Auditor B. E. Thrasher, Jr., this stipulation would make it illegal for any State official to pay out money or contract any obligation not approved by the State Budget Commission and for which money was not al¬ ready available. Another action was for aboli¬ tion of the exemption of new in¬ dustries from local taxation for five years. A clause was insert¬ ed that present contracts would not be affected during their life¬ time. Rewritten were present pro¬ vision for allowing a $2,000 ex¬ emption for real property to provide that no exemption be allowed on real estate unless actually and entirely occupied for residential purposes. Levy of poll tax would be rendered optional and limited to one dollar a year and ruled out was the section requiring such proceeds to go exclusively for educational purposes, under another provision approved. Another would limit pensions to Confederate widows to those who remain unmarried. The commission took action also to streamline judicial pro¬ cedure so that the six members v of the Court of Appeals would sit as a body instead of being divided into two courts of three each. Another provision would bar tax exemptions for trusts estab¬ lished for charitable purposes from which donors continued to receive income. School superintendents would appointed by school boards in¬ stead of elected, and nearly two thousand rural school dis¬ tricts abolished to eliminate ov¬ erhead expense and place schools on a county-wide basis under another section. Acting on request of the Geor¬ gia Education Association, the commission increased the max¬ imum county tax levy for school purposes from ten to fifteen mills, and stipulated that the school tax must not be less than five mills nor more than fifteen. The constitution now provides for a five-mill county and five-mill district tax, but the revised document would abolish school districts and the creation of an additional inde¬ pendent schools system. Small Registered Packages May Be Sent Overseas Small articles of intrinsic val¬ ue may now be sent by regis¬ tered mail to servicemen and women at APO addresses out¬ side the continental United State, Major Robert H. McCor¬ mack, Fourth Service Command assistant postal officer, an¬ nounced today. New postal in¬ structions also require that reg¬ istered articles weigh no more than eight ounces and that they be specifically requested , by the addressees. Valuable ' or important papers may also be sent overseas by registered mail. The registration service is in¬ tended principally to fountain cover watches, eye glasses, readi¬ pens, and other items not ly available overseas. Requests from addressees are required to keep the volume of registra¬ tions within limits imposed by the available overseas postal personnel. Men overseas are being asked to hold their re¬ quests for registered mailings to a minimum. TRENTON. GEORGIA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1944. Red Cross Will Handle Requests For Soldiers’ Return ATLANTA, Ga. — Many War Department agencies have been receiving requests for ov¬ erseas soldiers to be returned to this country due to an ill¬ ness in the family or for some reason which might justify an emergency furlough if the mili¬ tary personnel .were in the Unit¬ ed States. Previously the pro¬ cedure has been for the sub¬ stance of the correspondence to be transmitted to the theater of operations and request a report as to the action taken by the theater commander. There have also been thous¬ ands of requests for informa¬ tion regarding the physical con¬ dition of soldiers overseas, and many of these messages have been relayed by radio and let¬ ter to the theater commander for a report. Major General Frederick E. Uhl, Commanding General of the Fourth Service Command, states that the procedure for such cases has been changed and that thereafter requests for the return of individuals will be made directly through the local chapter of the American Red Cross. All the facts in the case should be presented to the Red Cross. The local chapter will investigate the case and make its recommendations through normal Red Cross channels to the appropriate commander for consideration. General Uhl also stated that War Department agencies will not request theater command¬ ers to report on the physical condition of individuals serving overseas. Persons filing such re¬ quests will be advised that the War Department will report ser¬ ious illness and subsequent change in physical condition to the next of kin as a matter of routine procedure immediately upon receipt of such report. It may be assumed that the ab¬ sence of such a report indicates that the individual's condition has not changed materially. General Uhl explained that the reason it is impossible for the War Department to take favorable action on the thous¬ ands of requests for special re¬ ports on individauls overseas, I is the heavy load on available 1 channels of c ommunication s. Bloou Denos's Should Watch Their Diet Diet is important in the form- , ation of hemoglobin which, in turn, is needed in replacing blood losses and in the preven¬ tion of anemia. Three constitu- : ents found in large quantities in milk prefer vital functions in 1 this connection, according to Dr. Julia Holmes of Massachu¬ setts State College. "B" Two of these are vita¬ mins known as riboflavin and pyridoxin, both of which ma¬ terially increase the efficiency with which iron is utilized in the formation of red blood cells. When pyridoxin is absent from the diet, red blood cells are not formed; instead large quanti¬ ties of iron needed for red cell formation are lost in the blood plasma. riboflavin is withheld from If and the diet, anemia results there is a decrease of white cells as v/ell as red ones, add¬ ed Dr. Holmes. Formerly, ribo¬ flavin was thought of mainly as filling growth needs but it is now known that this vitamin is necessary in the prevention of anemia. Casein, the protein of milk, contains important amino acids needed by the body in the manufacturing of blood constituents. It is for these reasons, adds the National Dairy Council, that anyone sub¬ jected to blood loss needs ad¬ ditional quantities of milk. WANTED TO BUY — Good used piano for Methodist Church. Reasonable. Apply box 94, The Dade County Times, j Trenton, Ga. Published Weekly — Since 1901 . Returned Soldiers To Be Reassigned By Redistribution ATLANTA, Go.—Soldiers re¬ turned home from the world battle fronts will advance to new military assignments through two Personnel Redis¬ tribution Stations established in the Fourth Service Com¬ mand. Qualified personnel techni¬ cians will apprise the skills, training, education and exper¬ ience of each soldier in order to place him in a new job mak¬ ing maximum use of his abili¬ ties, this processing to be ac¬ complished slowly and care¬ fully. The Fourth Service Com¬ mand Station will be at Miami Beach, Fla., and Ashville, N. C. Major General Frederick E. Uhl, Commanding General, the Fourth Service Command, to¬ day announced that 34 hotels had been acquired at Miami Beach and five at Asheville, N. C., for conversion into military installations.' He designated Brigadier General James H. Walker to command the Per¬ sonnel Redistribution Station at Miami Beach and Colonel U. N. James to command the Ashe¬ ville station. Operations began at Miami Beach on August 24 and at Asheville on Sept. 5. Both Re¬ distribution Stations will pro¬ cess Army Ground Forces and Army Service Forces personnel including enlisted men and wo¬ men, nurses, officers, and WAC officers who have returned from overseas stations for various reasons. Their abilities will be reevaluated in the light of cur¬ rent needs of the services and reasignments will be made ac¬ cordingly. The two Fourth Service Com¬ mand Stations will serve a large part of the eastern Unit¬ ed States, including some of Texas. Here's how the system oper¬ ates: The soldier is returned to this country. He goes to a Re¬ ception Station and receives there his orders to the Redistri¬ bution Station which will hand¬ le his case. The soldier goes on 21-day furlough, and then pro¬ ceeds to the Redistribution Sta¬ tion. These men and women will be battle casualties qualified for permanent limited duty on¬ ly; other recovered patients re¬ turned from overseas; personnel home on the rotational plan and other casuals returned from overseas for various rea¬ sons. The War Department has granted authority for wives of returnees to accompany their husbands to the Redistribution Station, subject to the avail¬ ability of space. Applications will be made by the returnees for quarters and the Redistri¬ bution Station will report on the availability of quarters for wives before the expiration of the furlough period. lawful wife is The returnee's the only person fro whom ac¬ comodations may be provided, at a rental of $1.25 a day, plus a charge for room and linen service not to exceed 50 cents per person per day. Food for wives of officers and warrant officers will be at an average daily rate of $1.50, while wives of enlisted men will pay the value of the ration furnished. Normally, each returnee whether officer,, warrant officer, enlisted man orfemale person¬ nel, will remain at the Redis¬ tribution Sation a maximum of 14 days. During this time all individual records will be com¬ pletely reconditioned and per¬ fected, with nothing left for fu¬ ture determination or adjudicat¬ ion. The returnees will be con¬ cerned with this as little as pos- During the remainder of each day, appropriate educational and recreational facilities will be provided, participation be¬ ing optional with the returnees. This is necessary to carry out a War Department instruction i statin gthat the mission of the j Redistribution Station "is to ob- FATHERS RATE FIRST IN LEAVING SERVICE President Roosvelt To Make First Political Speech September 23 WASHINGTON. — President Roosevelt said today he would make his first political speech of the campaign in Washing¬ ton the evening of September 23, before a group which will be organized by Daniel Tobin, president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (AFL). The President told his news conference he did not believe the speech wiuld be very tical, but it would seem so and he might as well so label it in advance. Mr. Roosevelt told reporters he contemplated no nation-wide campaign swing because he had too much to do. He said he had a good idea what he was going to say to the Tobin group ,but would not tell the reporters his subject. Tobin has been chairman of the Democratic Committee's la¬ bor division in previous Roose¬ velt campaigns and the Presi¬ dent said today he hoped Tobin would take that position in this campaign. tain maximum utilization of per¬ sonnel by painstaking ocupa- tional and physical tion, mental and physical er- conditioning, orientation, re¬ indoctrination and appropriate re-assignment, carried on with¬ out haste in an environment characterized by mental and physical relaxation and com¬ fort." Each returnee will be inter¬ viewed with a view to supple¬ menting, correcting or confirm¬ ing the information contained in his qualification card and determning his appropriate military assignment by proper¬ ly evaluating his physical, men¬ tal and military occupational qualifications. Consider ation will be given to the desirability of re-training individuals whose military occupational special¬ ties are no longer in demand or whose physical condition is such as to preclude being used in the specialty for which train¬ ed. An activity considered ex¬ tremely valuable by the War Department will be the inter¬ view by the intelligence officer. Returnees will be invited to vis¬ it the intelligence officer for the purpose of giving him the bene¬ fit of their opinions and their overseas experience with per¬ sonnel policies, equipment, weapons, training and other military activities. "Returnees from the several theaters of operations are ex¬ tremely important to the mili¬ tary service," General Uhl ex¬ plained. "In our Redistribution Stations we will attempt to de¬ termine the best place for each returnee, both for the advantage of the military and for the in¬ dividual. Many of these men will be veterans of arduous campaigns whose contributions to future campaigns will be most valuable." While high standards of military discipline and conduct will be maintained, so far as possible the returnees will be relieved of all paper work and permitted full freedom to enjoy the athletic and recreational fa¬ cilities of the area. Fourth Ser¬ vice Command personnel at each station will handle the ad¬ ministrative and overhead op¬ erations. In short, for 14 days, each soldier will find himself in the status similar to that of a "guest." In view of the months and in many cases years spent on foreign assign¬ ments, and the prospect each returnee faces of such addi¬ tional service until the end of the war, the period at the Re¬ distribution Station will be made as pleasant as humanly possible. Dade County's Only Newspaper. Oversea Veterans Also Given Priority Status for Discharge After Defeat of Nazis WASHINGTON.—The War Department today announced official plans for a partial demobilization of the army after the defeat of Germany, and disclosed fathers and overseas veterans will be the first to return to civilian life. a in the Man Hides Draft Card In Head of Doll; Receives Sentence WASHINGTON. — A draft registrant who hid his draft card in the head of a doll be¬ came the 10,000th American to be sentenced for a Selective Service violation in the World War II. The Federal Bureau of Inves¬ tigation identified the evader as Jules Dallas Pratte, of Bonne Terre, Mo., who on August 9 was sentenced to four years in prison by the United States Dis¬ trict Court at St. Louis. The F. JB. I. said Mr. Pratte left St. Louis in December, 1942, when ordered to report for in¬ duction. He lived for a time in New York, working as a bar¬ tender and skating instructor in Washington, D. C., and then assuming the alias of Juliano Armando Prado, the F. B. I. add¬ ed, left for Mexico. Before entering Mexico, the F. B. I. said, Mr. Pratte hid his identification papers and draft cards inside the hollow head of a small Mexican doll. He gave the doll to a woman in Brownsville, Texas, to be for¬ warded to an acquaintance in Washington. The acquaintance became suspicious, turned the doll over to the F. B. I., and the contents of the head were dis¬ covered. A comparison of fingerprints when Mr. Pratt re-entered the United States, posing as a na¬ tive Mexican, led to his arrest in San Francisco on June 23. The F. B. I. said that as of August 1, sentences for draft violations totaled 25,355 years and fines amounted to $963,149. A total of 394,335 cases was closed up to August 1. OPA Cuts September Passenger Tire Quota Ups Truck Tires WASHINGTON. — The Office of Price Administration has cut the September allocation of passenger car tires 350,000 cas-. ings under the August level, but increased the heavy truck and bus tire quota to 102,000 up from 85,0000 for this month. In reducing the passenger tire allotment from 1,950,000 tires to 1,600,000, OPA explain¬ ed that reserve inventories built up last winter for the summer months have been used up.. OPA said that while the low¬ er passenger tire quota will not result in any corresponding cut in eligibility, it does mean a still more difficult job for local rationing boards in deciding who among the many appli¬ cants for new tires are the most essential drivers. All "B" and "C" card motor¬ ists are eligible for new pass¬ enger tires, but the back log of applications now stands at a- bout 1,000,000 tires, the agency stated. In boosting the heavy truck and bus tire quota, OPA stress¬ ed that the critical shortage of these casings will not be en¬ tirely relieved. While the rayon allotment has been hiked to 102,000 heavy tires, the Office of Defense Transportation esti¬ mates that a minimum of 165,- 000 casings are needed each month to maintain essential commercial transportation. $1.50 PER YEAR. report of the high command on the dispersal of the nation's great army of more than 7,000,- 000 men, featured: 1. Fathers and battle veterans will be given priority status for discharge. 2. Millions of fighting men will be speedily transferred for the smashing of Japan. 3. Millions bf tons of fighting equipment—ammunition, land¬ ing barges, tanks, planes and food will have first priority to be transported to the Pacific fronts. 4. Troops suited tb Pacific war¬ fare, no matter where now sta¬ tioned, will remain in service as long as they are essential. 5. Most of the present air force and the service the force will be transferred to Pacific frbnts. 6. American troops will remain in inactive war zones in Europe in order to fulfill such occupa¬ tion as are necessary. 7. Veterans of the Pacific war will benefit by the collapse bf Germany, and those with long service will be replaced by fresh troops from the states of Europe. 8. Demobilization of the WAC will follow the same pattern as that for the fighting forces ex¬ cepting that Wacs whose hus¬ bands have been discharged will be released upon application. The War Department, in the dramatic report, warned of some delay in the return of troops frbm Europe to the United States, because ships will be needed to move “millions of fighting men” to the Pacific for the final assault against Japan. The report also made no esti¬ mate of the number bf soldiers to be discharged when Germany collapses. AAA Conducting Survey of Farms Forty or fifty administrative officers, chief clerks and AAA committeemen from Northwest Georgia, met in the Floyd coun¬ ty Courthouse recently to per¬ fect plans for a survey of five per cent of the farms in each of the ten counties in harmony with the State AAA program. Early in the Spring, every farmer in his respective county, went into his local AAA office and filled out "intention" blanks as to what soil conservation practices he intended to carry out during the year, E. J. Bible, Administrative officer of the Dade County AAA office stated. When this had been com¬ pleted, it was found that more than $6,000,000 in conservation practices had been signed up for, whereas only 4,400,000 had been appropriated for that pur¬ pose, Mr. Bible said. It was therefore necessary to conduct another survey to as¬ certain whether or not the farm¬ ers were going to carry out their original intentions. Mr. Bible said. If so, the Govern¬ ment would be able to pay only 75 per cent of their requests. If not, it would be able to pay 100 cents on the dollar. Instead of making a survey of all the farmers in the state, it was determined that the State AAA office would select 5 per cent of the farmers and the sur¬ vey would be conducted a- mong them, the result to be the decided factor. The survey will be conducted by the AAA Com¬ mitteemen, under the supervis¬ ion of the administrative offic¬ ers, Mr. Bible stated. DEDICATION SERVICE AT RISING FAWN M. E. CHURCH NEXT SUNDAY Sunday evening at 8 o'clock, there will be a service dedicat¬ ing the service flag at the Ris¬ ing Fawn Methodist Church. Everyone is invited to attend.
