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About The Dade County times. (Trenton, Ga.) 1908-1965 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 26, 1944)
h|v n & Cfmnil fine Devoted to The Best Interests of Dade County and Georgia. NUMBER 37.—VOLUME 44. ODT Urges Early Mailing of Christmas Gifts This Year "Shop Early—Send all Christ¬ mas gifts by December 1st!" That reminder came yester¬ day from the Atlanta District Office of Defense Transporta¬ tion to officially herald the op¬ ening of the Christmas season. It's a pleasure season this year, ODT admitted, made necessary by wartime condi¬ tions. However, ODT asserted, the simple facts are that transporta¬ tion facilities are already so overburneded that the only way to insure delivery of gift par¬ cels this year is to get them to the post office or express com¬ pany by December 1. After that, the government cannot guarantee delivery in time for the holiday. Briefly the reasons for the early deadline are listed by ODT as these: 1944 gift shop¬ ping is expected to top that of 1943 by 25 percent. Gifts will travel greater distances due to wartime population dislocat¬ ions. Nationwide transportation and local delivery of Christmas packages, when added to the heavy holiday furlough travel, with all transportation facilities already overburdened by war conditions, creates a major problem. The only solution ti that prob¬ lem, says ODT, is cooperation by the public in meeting the December 1 deadline. In Washington, Director J. Monroe Joshnson, of ODT, sum¬ med the situation up as follows: "Christmas gifts as tokens of good will, affection and esteem are particularly important Christmas, in a war-torn world. This perhaps, they they will mean more than ever before. Howev¬ er, in an Invasion Year, the transportation and delivery of Christmas packages creates a nationwide home front problem. "War-essential transportation needs must be met first. Na¬ tion-wide transportation facili¬ ties and local delivery services are already heavily burdened. The problem can be solved on¬ ly by public recognition of our mutual responsibility to da all in our power to avert peak de¬ mands on transportation and delivery services in the weeks just prior to the holiday. "Your government urges you to purchase and send your gifts during November, before December 1st." Red Cross Officers Elected For Dcde County Chapter At an election held Sunday afternoon at the courthouse, Douglas Morrison was elected Chairman; Mrs. S. J. Hale, vice- chairman; Mrs. R. S. Townsend, treasurer, and Mrs. Frank Mor¬ rison, secretary. Dade County's quota in the 1944 War Fund was $1800.00, and $2,293.98 was raised. Of this amount the Dade County Chapter was allowed by the National American Red Cross in Washington to retain for its use $757.01. A balance of $605.- 47 was reported now on hand in the local Dade County Chap¬ ter treasury, to be turned over to the new treasurer. CARD OF THANKS We wish to thank our friends and neighbors for their kind expressions of sympathy shown us in the loss of our son and brother, Lt. Charles J. Wool- bright, who was killed in action in France. We appreciate them more than you will ever know. Mrs. and Mrs. Robert Wool- bright Robert Wool- Mr. and Mrs. bright, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Price. FOR SALE—Mare and Mule and Farming Tools. See Charlie Gold, after 5 p. m., at New Eng¬ land, Ga. TRENTON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1944. Gestapo’s pT Incredible Cruelties Told oy n Frenchwoman . , Who v;] ouivived o • • 1 (EDITOR'S NOTE—The following article by suscitated and left locked up until 4:30 in Helen Kirkpatrick, was clipped from a Knoxville afternoon. newspaper being by a reader of The Times, and is At 5 o'clock a new man appeared, published at their request). acled her wrists and led her to a car. She By HELEN KIRKPATRICK told to keep her eyes shut, but managed Chicago Daily News Foreign Service identify the street as Rue De la Pompe to be a Gestapo branch.) PARIS, Oct. 14.—Of 75,000 Partisans esti¬ "You have been gently treated, mated to have been shot by the Germans, Where you are going now is known as there is no possibility of knowing how many Hell," he told her. were tortured before death or died as a result There, in an ordinary room, she was of methods no civilized persons would believe to her knees, beaten; told to stand up; flug are used today. gain to her knees. This, interspersed with Your correspondent has spent four days tions, lasted about 15 minutes. Then she with the French police, visiting various Gestapo a voice she later identified as that of Dr. headquarters in Paris, interviewing French —known to the police actually to be personnel forced to serve in these places and Gestapo Expert Bergen. He told her four talking with doctors and victims. tioners: "I will give you that woman for Twenty Vincennes policemen told the hour." This was about 5:20. story of 48 hours of torture they had endured HUNG FROM BAR, BEATEN and led us to the mass graves they had had to dig and later bury their colleagues in. For Her hands were then tied together ail who disbelieve in the medieval barbarism wire and she was hung to a parallel bar of the Germans, a visit to these men and a your correspondent saw when she visited study of their faces would remove the last room). She was left there for 15 minutes, traces of doubt. Manuel alternately beat her and pulled Not a day passes here but small or large legs to create greater pressure on her arm items appear in the newspapers—an entire ets. Manuel employed other arts best left to village in the center of France wiped out—400 imagination—they included among the Dutchmen shot in cold blood—a town burned frequent and sharp kicks in the stomach. with its inhabitants fired in heir own homes. ing that the man was enraged because These are cold facts, perhaps, lost in the neither answered his questions nor midst of five years of carnage. Yet these acts signs of pain, she began crying out where seems almost merciful compared with the ex¬ blows hurt the least. another quisite and refined tortures the Gestapo used At this point he turned to man and still uses on its vicims to extract informa¬ remarked as a scienist might: "It is tion. They all seem to differ in their reactions TYPICAL HORROR TALE pain." This correspondent, like many, feels that Failing to extract any information they Americans who have not seen or known such moved her shoes and burned the soles of barbarism should be given its precise details feet with candles, placed a revolver in as gathered first hand. This, the story of Mme. mouth and plunted lighted cigarettes up Lewullis, I feel to be typical. Her medical rec¬ nostrils. Still getting no resuls, hey let ord, which I saw before I talked with her, in¬ down, manacled her wrists to her ankles, dicated that she had understated rather than strung her up again, this time in a overstated. position, and administered the same I found his brave French woman in a small kicks and other refinements. apartment in the Grenelle quarter in Paris, and DRIVEN TO SUICIDE ATTEMPTS at the request of a high French officer, she told calmly and simply the story of her arrest She stayed in this position for two and "interrogation." Sha is a large, solidly- and 55 minutes, after which she was biult woman in her late thirties or early forties downstairs into Bergen's apartment, still —of obviously great physical and moral stam- acled. She was placed on her knees nia. her bed, where he was eating Now she moves slowly and with difficulty, ing bits of food to two dogs lying on the her broad shoulders seeming broader as both side of the bed. He offered her a glass of were broken and have healed without being nac. She refused. From about 7 to 3 she set. Her right arm and left leg are semi-para¬ mained in this position, was beaten across lyzed, and deep brown stains on both wrists neck and kicked. Bergen then suggested show how deeply the steel wire of the perse¬ she had only had five of the nine cutors' manacles cut into the flesh. She shuffles she had better have a rest. slightly as she walks. The burned soles of her Finally, at 3 a. m. she was taken into eet are healing nicely, but still look like under¬ hall, flung on a blanket, still manacled, and done beef. to sleep. She spent from the nuntil 7 a. m. Mme Lewullis had been extremely active ing to commit suicide. She managed finally in the underground from 1939. Her duties had get one wrist to her mouth with the mention taken her throughout Southern France. Then, chewing a vein, only o find that her jaw at the beginning of last year, she had been or¬ been so battered by the beating that she dered to Paris. not have enough strength. Here, through one of the underground At 7 she was pulled out and taken to workers, she was betrayed to the Gestapo. She de Saussaies. She estimated that it took was arrested last July 14 at 9 a. m. at a ren¬ an hour to get her up to he fourh floor as dezvous she had made with the woman who fained every few minutes. There they gave betrayed her. coffee and tried to revive her. But she Taken to Gestapo headquarters on Rue des constantly. Apparently they concluded Saussaies, she was questioned as to her acti- she didna't really know anything and took vities.lt was obvious from the questions that to the Hospital de la Pitie, where she the Gesapo knew very little about her. She had for 32 days without medical aid. On the in her handbag two telephone numbers which day Paris was liberated and so was she. she wished to destroy, so asked to go to the I have omitted some details which wash room, knowing she would be searched. Lewullis refused to tell the French officers, A German woman stripped her but while un¬ related to me privately. They are not dressing, Mme. Lewullis managed to swallow which can be put on paper. But they are the bits of paper bearing the numbers. which made me sicker than I have ever Her questioners returned and continued in my life and reminded me of Faulkner the interrogation, interspersed with beating. ture. Failing to get answers, they pt her in a bath¬ This is one case. It was a typical one, as tub one-quarter filled with ice water. The tub can attest from reading countless medical was slowly filled up while Manuel—a sadist, ords and from talking to two prison who was the chief inquisitioner splashed wat¬ This was everyday life for French women in her face constantly, to the point of near¬ men, suspeced of being members of the er ground, who cross-examined by the suffocation. were When she fainted she was seized , . by the . taoo. This is not an imaginary atrocity hair and pushed under the water. This occurred This is only one of .many I have heard eight times in the hour and a half she was Normandy. These are the people we are was then out, re¬ ing today. Local Boy is Member of Heavy Bomber Group Awarded the Distinguished Unit Badge 15TH AAF IN Sgt George W. Lawson, 21, a B-24 engineer-gunner, of ton is a member of a B-24 hea-1 vy' bomber group Distinguish- which has been awarded the ed Unit Badge, the highest unit award 15th AAF Headquart-, ers announced. th^ The Dishngihshed^^Unit award was given ^Ribbon^ tor the precision bombing o e Voslau, ME 109 fighter p.ane the factory. This new factory, oride of Hermann Goenng, had just swung into production, he when it was attacked by 1 5th AAF Despite intense flak and S,;, numerous'enemy led fighters, narticular Tecty group its en- the over the tar- Published Weekly — Since 1901. get, and literally wiped the fac- tory off the face of the earth. Not one building was left un¬ touched. Called by the press "the finest example of precis- ion bombing by Liberators, the destruction was so corn- plete the Nazis never made an attem P‘ to rebu ^ d tbe P lan r? even remove the debns. I he aTck' TyCol at the Mar- ^ M Munn Qf Albany> Calif., w ho was awarc j ec j t be Disting- u[s]yed jp lying cjoss for his derghi r and flying skill, Now commanded , , , by Co1. n , Henry K. Mooney of 4620 St. Charles Ave., New Orleans, La. this group has flown well over 100 missions to bomb strategic enemy military installations SINGING SCHOOL TO AT PINEY GROVE BAPTIST CHURCH SATURDAY NIGHT The singing school which been in progress at the Grove Baptist Church for past two weeks, under the rection of Prof. Grady will close Saturday night, has been announced. Mr. ford says that there will some special singers on the closing night, and vites everyone to attend. from the southern coast France to the Black Sea, as as giving air support to forces in France and Italy, to Soviet and Partisan in the Balkans. Before joining the Air in December, 1942, Sgt. was employed by the nooga Hardware company. brother, Ralph, is with the rines in the Southwest Dade County’s Only Newspaper. j> eor s ,a Jj as Enough Cumber r or Nations Entire War Effort If it should become sary, Georgia alone could nish the nation's lumber requirements for war needs for an entire it was declared by Dean D. Weddell of the Peabody of Forestry, University of gia, who based his on results of a careful of the state. After supplying such needs, Georgia would still eleven billion board feet timber left, he said, and "Every soldier in training this country requires three dred board feet of lumber, even more when overseas. look 2,000 car loads of to rebuild the docks at The parts of one fighter require as much timber as five-room house for their "Of course, other states doing their share and does not have to carry the tire lumber burden of the effort. The point is that is a "millionarie among southern states" when it to timber resources. of its area is in forest land, no other eastern state has great a volume of saw "However,” Dean warned, "Georgia must drain her lumber without replacing them or would go 'bankrupt' as to estry. "Woodlands can and must handled to assure a crop of timber. The areas which have vitally needed lumber for war can still serve the in the peacetime building if thought is given to the er cutting and care of stands." Pfc. Kenneth Bailey Reported Missing Pfc. Kenneth Bailey, son Mrs. Ruby Bailey of has been reported missing action in France. wounded in August, Pvt. recovered and returned to front. His Purple Heart has been forwarded to mother. Mr. and Mrs. Elbert and family and Harold of Atlanta, spent the end with relatives at New land. Lieutenant Charles J. WooJbright By MRS. W. H. BROCK. All of Trenton was saddened Friday when news 4 came to the family of Lt Charles J. Woolbright of his death in action in France. The notice from the War De¬ partment was sent to his wife, Mrs. Maurine Woolbright in Americus, Ga.. and was relayed to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Woolbright by telephone. Charles was a young man of exceptional personali¬ ty and made rapid advancement after entering the ser¬ vice in 1942 as a private. He attended Officers' Train¬ ing School and received his commissione as second lieutenant. One year later he was promoted to First Lieutenant, and at the time of his death, news had been received by his family that he would be made a Cap¬ tain soon. He spent several months in Trinidad as an instructor and when returning home after this service in the Pacific, he commanded a company of troops back in the States. He visited his parents here in April acompanied by his wife who had been making her home near Americus, and expressed enthusiasm and ambition to go into the European theater of war to aid in the conflict there. Charles is among the very first to bring the sorrow of war home to Trenton, and the sympathy of the entire community goes out to his family here and to his young wife. May they find comfort in previous memories of his bright, sunny nature and splendid young manhood, and the knowledge that he wanted to go to the land where he could be of assistance in bringing this conflict to a close. We feel that he dieda s he lived—courage¬ ously and unafraid. It was a pleasure-to have known him and to talk with him on his last visit here. $1.50 PER YEAR. More IncomeFor Georgians Need, Asserts Gov, Arnall Gov. Ellis Arnall told the teachers of the Eighth Con¬ gressional District at their Way- cross meeting that "we can I have a more fully developed Georgia only by having a rich¬ er Georgia; and to have a rich¬ er Georgia, we must increase the income and the standard of living of every person in Geor¬ gia. All Georgians must be in¬ cluded in this program of de¬ velopment." The governor asserted that the Stc<e Agricultural and Indus¬ trial Development Board is now studying the matter of prompt¬ ing development in Georgia as to education, agriculture, in¬ dustry, health, public works, commerce and government. "If this war is to mean any¬ thing, we here at home must do our work," Arnall declared. "We must do our part for a fin¬ er Georgia and a finer United States. While Georgia is pre¬ dominantly an agricultural state, we need industrial de¬ velopment. That means that in addition to providing the raw materials, we must build pro¬ cessing and manufacturing plants for these raw materials that processing and manufac¬ turing no longer must be con¬ ducted in eleven eastern states. The profit lies in this processing and manufacturing, and it is the profits from such plants right here in Georgia that will help increase the incomes of Georgians. "In addition, in education we must have federal aid. I am not one of those who are sus¬ picious of the federal govern¬ ment. It is our government and I love it. It is our federal gov¬ ernment we are asking to e- qualize educational opportuni¬ ties for all children. "Of all I have bee nable to do as Governor, I am proudest of the part I have had in set¬ ting up a teacher-retirement fund. That fund will assist in making the old age of every¬ one who teaches in Georgia more comfortable and more en¬ joyable. "May we dedicate ourselves to a policy of abundance; more for wages, more for profits, more for everyone. Let's have done with any doctrine of scar¬ city. Let's seek the best and se¬ cure the best for Georgians. Let's produce more, create more, to the end that each day may have more. That is the way to a greater, finer, richer Georgia, in which to rear our children and their children."
