DEVOTED, TO THE HEALTH, HAPPINESS AND PROSPERITY OF THE HOMES, SCHOOLS AND CHURCHES OFALAMO AND WHEELER COUNTY-
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IN NORMANDY
HEADQUARTERS, European The
ater of Operations.—Supervising the
operations of all United States Armj
Transportation Corps railway units
to operate on the continent from
France, the Second Military Railway-
Service, commanded by Brigadier
General Clarence L. Burpee, 3010
Jolly road, Jacksonville. Fla., has
been active in Normandy since the
end of June.
The advanced section of the organ
ization landed first, and after estab
lishing headquarters immediately be
gan reconnaisance activities. The re
connaissance group included General
Burpee. .....
The party moved about in jeeps,
including a special rail reconnais
sance jeep, the tires of which had
been removed, enabling it to run on
its rims.
Damage to the French rail system
caused by bombings of the Allied Air
Forces and by tlje destructiveness of
German rearguard actions was quite
extensive. Regions that hadn’t been
ruined by demolitions and bombings
* were heavily mined, and had to be
cleared by army engineers.
In its search along the American
beachhead, the reconnaissance party
found large quantities of serviceable
equipment. Locomotives from sev
eral different countries have been
discovered, including several World
War I models. Box cars in good con
dition have also been captured, plus
tons of coal which is urgently needed
for the steam locomotives.
French civilian railroad men re
turned to Cherbourg after the
American occupation of the town and
reported for work in the yards and
roundhouse. They told of German
plans to sabotage engines by running
them, with full steam up, along a
track that sloped into the channel wa
ters. The impact of the cold water
would cause the steaming engines to
explode. However, bombings by the
Allied Air Corps that destroyed the
track leading to the water foiled the
Nazi plan.
One member of headquarters, Mas
ter Sergeant Kenneth A. Trayes, 10
Island avenue, Rumford, R. 1., lived
in a caboose that had been converted
into a rolling working office for Gen
eral Burpee for more than a week.
During his wait in the English port
he was visited by Major General
Frank S. Ross, chief of transporta
tion in this theater, who good-natur
edly threatened to seize the caboose
from General Burpee.
Another member, Captain Curtis
D. Buford, 3611 Fulton street. N. W.,
Washington, D. C., is the son of a
vice president of the American As
sociation of Railroads, C. H. Burford.
Some Georgians in the headquar
ters of the Second Military Railway
Service are listed below:
T/4 Robert W. Tuten, Jr., Alamo.
Pvt. Robert R. Craft Jr., Atlanta.
T/4 Ansel E. Hitt, Augusta.
Pvt. William H. McLendon, 112
Sycamore street, Cedartown.
S/Sgt. Chester L. Minter Jr., East
man. „
Pvt. Robert Crenshaw, 236 Carling
avenue, Macon.
Pvt. George F. Robert, Rout^ 2,
Marietta.
S/Sgt. Robert W. Sheffield, 1307
60th street, Sast, Savannah.
TWO PRIVATE SIT
NEXT TO PRESIDENT
AN ADVANCED ALEUTIAN IS
LAND BASE, Aug. 3.—(Delayed)—
(UP)—Pfc. Ferdinand Rutscher, of
Irvington, N. J., and Pfc. William
Goff, a red-haired marine from
Batesville, Ark., were the happiest—
and most envied —men in the Aleu
tian Islands today. .
Rutscher and Goff, two of 200 sol
diers, sailors and marines chosen to
lunch with President Roosevelt dur
ing his visit here, won the right to
sit on the left and right of the chief
executive, with an army general and
a navy captain at their sides.
They sat at the head table in a
quonset-type mess hall, named “The
Bayside Restaurant,” with President
Roosevelt in the center.
The other 198 servicemen, selected
to represent various units, filled the
other tables.
HAGER GROUP RULED
REPUBLICAN ORGANIZATION
The “White Republican” group
headed "by Clint W. Hager was ruled
by Secretary of State John B. Wilson
to be the regular Republican organ
ization in Georgia and having the
right to file the Republican candidate
list for electors in the November
general election.
By this ruling, following a pub
lic hearing at the State Capitol, the
group headed by Wilson Williams,
Republican national commiteeman,
which had been given the recognition
of the Republican national commit
tee and the credentials committee of
the Republican national convention,
was eliminated from the ballot. A
court appeal would be made, accord
ing to Chairman W. R. Tucker, of the
Williams faction.
After the hearing, Hager’s group
changed the names of six of the can
didates for electors, substituting six
candidates that were on the Inde
pendent Democratic ticket, which had
previously adopted six of the Repub
lican candidates. This made the can
didates of the two groups identical.
WHEELER COUNTY
MEN OFF TO THE
IARMY MONDAY
The following white selectees left
Alamo Monday- morning, August 14,
for Fort McPherson for their physi
cal examination. If they are accepted
they will return back home, to be
called later as they are needed. The
list is as follows:
Otis Harrell, Scotland.
Lamar P. Elkton, Alamo.
William H. Sightier, Stuckey.
William W. Adams, Alamo.
Willie E. Couey, Glenwood.
A. J. Harville, Jr., Glenwood.
James A. Joiner, Alamo.
James L. McMillan, Alamo.
Benjamin O. Sharpton, Alamo.
Robert Moon, Alamo.
James F. Smith, Alamo.
Truit H. Crawford, Alamo.
Reece C. Browning, Alamo.
Hugh E. Harville, Alamo.
Charles H. Peavey, Alamo.
Romas V. Faircloth, Alamo.
Willie Lee Tanner, Alamo.
Terreance V. Brown, Jr., Glenwood.
Dubert E. Carter, Glenwood.
Leon G. Newton, Glenwood.
Fred P. Smith, Alamo.
BUY WAR BONDS NOW
I’ll tell you a story, so listen now:
If you want to stay free, I’ll tell you
how:
Get busy. Buy War Bonds now!
Just eighteen dollars and seven-five
cents
Is a little bit of money- that’s mighty
well spent.,
So spend it. Buy War Bond now!
Let’s keep Old Glory away up high.
She’s hanging there for you and I.
.Salute her. Buv War Bonds now!
I
Just think of our boys away over
there;
They’re fighting for us; they’re doing
their shark.
Let’s help them. Buy War Bonds
now!
When you buy a bond you pay for a
shell.
You heln send Hitler right on to—
(Heaven I hope).
Get busy. Buy War Bonds now!
Our timejs short, our nped is great.
Let’s keen ourselves'from a terrible
fate. I
Get /. Buy War Bonds now!
Now, friends, as vou sit around your
fire tonight,
Just think of our men that are hav
ing to fight.
Let’s help them. Buy War Bonds
now!
God made our country, and Me made
it free.
Jie put up the flag for you and me.
Let’s keep it. Buy War Bonds now!
By MRS. LOUISE DURDEN.
(This poem can be shung to the
tune: “Boogie Woogie Blues.”)
The above poem was sent to The
Eagle this week by Mrs. Louise Dur
den, of Stuckey, and it is dedicated
to Guy O. Stone, Jr., and Jack Twil
lie, who was killed in action in Sep
tember, 1943, in North Africa. TRis
young man came to this county from
the Methodist Orphans’ Home in Ma
con. This is the first thing that The
Eagle has heard of this young man
since last September, when The
Eagle wrote of his death. At that
time The Eagle suggested that some
Methodist church in Wheeler county
hold a memorial service for this
young soldier who died in the battie
for our God-given freedom. Since no
services of that kind have been ren
dered, The Eagle takes great pleas
ure in restoring honors on all young
men who have made the sacrifice of
this young man, who has paid the
price in full for our God-given free
dom.
JOE POPE AGAIN NAMED
TO HEAD UNITED WAR
FUND IN COUNTY
Mr. J. A. Pope, of Alamo, has been
named general chairman for the
United War Fund campaign for
Wheeler County. The campaign
starts on October 9. Mr. Pope was
chairman of last year’s acmpaign for
the above organization.
In commenting upon his reappoint
ment, Mr. H. B. Emrey, state chair
man, United War Fund of Georgia,
said: “Mr. Pope performed an out
standing job of leadership in 1943
and may be counted on to repeat the
performance in Wheeler County this
year.”
The United War Fund of Georgia
conducts the annual war-time cam
paigns for funds to finance the USO,
War Prisoners’ Aid, United Seamen’s
Service and the various allied relief
agencies. In many Georgia counties
this year’s campaign will be combin
ed with the Community Fund drive;
in others the Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts
and other local agencies will raise
their funds also in the joint cam
paign.
Mr. Pope says he will soon per
fect a county-wide organization to
handle the. campaign. The Georgia
organization is affiliated with the Na
tional War Fund and Mr. Pope be
lieves that every person in the coun
ty should be given the opportunity
to assist in the humanitarian aims of
the agencies financed in this one
united drive.
ALAMO, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 18, 1944
The Farmer and War Bond Purchases
by Charles W. Holman, Secretary
The National Cooperative Milk Producers' Federation
A M ERICAN farmers have a
A great deal more at stake in
purchasing War Bonds than sim
ply a patriotic urge to assist in
financing the war so that it may
be prosecuted to an early and vic
torious conclusion. Modern war
demands governmental expendi
tures far in excess of those which
may be met by current revenue
receipts. This means Government
borrowing. If a large part of this
I borrowing Is through commercial
i banks additional inflationary
I spending power is created through
1 the expansion of credit. On the
other hand, if the borrowing is
largely from individuals much of
their excess funds are drained off.
Hence, the pressure on prices re
sulting frbm unusually large funds
bidding for limited amounts of
goods and services is relieved, and
thus inflation retarded.
A tremendously Increased
agricultural production and
some increase in average
prices received above those
paid by farmers have raised
the net income of all United
States farmers from the 1935-
39 average of $4.7 billion to
56.3 billion in 1911, $9.4 billion
in 1942, and an estimated 512.5
billion in 1943. With available
supplies of farm machinery re
placements anti building ma
terials limited, Agriculture has
a fund available for cither
debt retirement, savings read
ily liquidated for future pur
chases of machinery, build
ings, etc., or for present ia
' vestment in land.
A marked decrease in farm
mortgages in recent years indi
cates that much of this fund has
been properly applied to debt re
wement. However activity in'
land sales and a very marked in
crease in land values demon-
WARNING FROM THE STATE
HEALTH DEPARTMENT
Immunization against diphtheria,
whooping cough, smallpox and ty
phoid fever is recommended for chil
dren entering school this September
by the State Health Department. “It
is a msitake for parents to needlessly
subject their children to these dis
eases for which specific immuniza
tions are available,” according to Dr.
T, F. Abercrombie, state health di
rector.
State health figures show that 47
children died from diphtheria in
Georgia last year and 170 from
whooping cough. The majority of
these deaths could have been pre
vented by immunization against these
diseases, Dr. Abercrombie said.
Immunization against diptheria and
whooping cough is recommended by
the Health Department for children
at about six months of age. Chil
dren who were immunized against
diphtheria as babies should be tested
to determine if a supplementary
dose of diphtheria toxoid is necessary
to strengthen immunity before they
enter school, Dr. Abercrombie added.
Any young child who has not had
whooping cough immunization may
be vaccinated against this disease,
the health director explained. In
some instances school children pre
viously immunized are given single
injections of whooping cough vaccine
to continue protection.
Typhoid fever immunization is par
ticularly recommended by the Health
Department for rural children who
may come in contact with carriers of
this disease while attending school.
While no deaths from smallpox
were reported in Georgia last year,
health records show that epidemics of
this disease occur when large groups
of the population remain unvacci
nated.
REVIVAL MEETING
BEGIN AT SHILOH
The annual revival meeting wil
begin at the Shiloh Methodist
Church next Wednesday evening,
August 23rd. Rev. Leland Moore,
of Dublin, the District Superins
tendent, will do the preaching in
assisting the pastor, Rev. R. L.
Harris. It is planned to make
this one of the greatest reviva]
meetings in the history of the
old historic Shiloh Church.
Every one has a special invita
tiou to attend this meeting.
Mondell L. Beach, C. Phm
USN, North Atlantic is spending
a few days here with his wife
and baby.
Pvt. Bu rnbam T. Pope, of Gamp
Rucker, Alabama, bis here on a
ten day furlough visiting bis
mother. Mrs. L. M. Pope and
family
strate that farmers are probably
diverting a large part of this fund
into land purchases. From March
1, 1943, to March 1, 1941, average
land values per acre rose 15 per
cent, with the larger part of the
rise taking place m'the last four
months of the period. The in
crease during this four-month pe
riod was the highest on record,
being 20 per cent greater than the
average monthly rate of increase
for the 1919-20 boom year. Aver
agevalues per acre have increased
mote than one-third in the past 3
yeafs. In the 1916-19 period the
rise was about the same.
It appears that an overcapitali
zation of probably temporarily -
high farm commodity prices is in
Erocess just as in World War I.
arge mortgage debts incurred
now, at high levels of income, will
prove disastrous when botii total
agricultural production and prices
fail. Land values are based on the
net return to land. With the end
of the war in sight and with the
prospect that farm labor and other
costs will require a relatively larg
er return leaving the return to
land less, the logical course for
land values at present would ap
pear to be downward rather than '
upward.
Therefore, it appears that
sari '.ers weald do well to in
vesi. every available ucllsr,
beyond that needed for debt
retirement, in Ciovernnumt
Boßds. These c; i be held
against the day \.kcn neces
sary farm replacements wilt
be available and when farm
land values will have becoiwo
more stable. In this way the
individual farmer may assist
in hastening the day of return
of his son, ami also have capi
tal available io help finance
him in ventures of his own
choice. U. S. Treasury Department
WHEELER COUNTY HIGH
SCHOOL WILL OPEN ON
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 30
The Wheeler County High School
will 4>gen on Wednesday, .August 30,
with p. fiJII corps of teachers on hand,
according to Prof. C. A. Estes. He
also stated that all of the students
who are expecting to attend at the
opening of the school must have the
typhoid shots and the vaccination for
smallpox, and this must be done be
fore school opens. This precaution is
made only that the children’s health
may be safely guarded.
Every Friday afternoon, from 2 to
5 o’clock, there will be a physician
and a nurse in the county health of
fice to give the shots aiid vaccina
tions that are needed.
Prof. Estes came to the Wheeler
County High School last year and
had a very successful school term.
Ue was re-elected at the close of his
last term for another year, and since
that time he has worked very dili
gently in securing a competent corps
of teachers for this term, and we
predict for him a full co-operation of
the school board, teachers, patrons
and pupils which will warrant us an
other successful school year.
J. LEE COX IN
AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENT
J. Lee Cox, a former resident of
Alamo, was in an automobile acci
dent on last Tuesday of last week.
The accident occurred near the Geor
gia and South Carolina line, near
Augusta, where he and his family
has been residing nearly two years.
His arm had to be taken off above
his elbow. He is in the hospital doing
as well as could be expected.
Dr. Rivers Honored
Friday at Reception
Glenwood, Aug. 16. —Dr. W.
A Rivers, beloved physician of
Glenwood, was honored by a re
ception at bis home here Friday
night, August- 11, the occasion
being the celebration of his 77th
birthday. Dr. Rivers has been
practicing medicine here for
many years and is loved and con
fided in by everyone in the
( county.
, His only son, R. E. Rivers, is
with the revenue department in
Atlanta. lie has two grandsons
in the armed forcas.
Don Gross, of the United
Strtes Navy, is here visiting his
mother, Mrs. J. H. Gross. He
has been transferred from sea
duty to an electrical engineering
Philadelphia Pennsylvania
Miss Jean McDaniel, of the
University Hospital, Augusta, ia
visiting her parents here
THE ALAMO LIONS
CLUB IS SPONSORING
AN HONOR ROLL
The Alamo Lions Club is sponsor
ingan honor i. II Board fur all of the
boys ami girls that are in the armed
force:, of the United States.
Tia people of this county are rally
ing to the support of this worth"
cause. This honor roll is a token of
the appreciation to them and the
splendid w.c’ they are doing for
their country to preserve the great I
liberty and freedom.
The* Lions Club will appreciate am |
cm.tribi.' • Cat any one m Wheel'-!
er c-’ei;,/ rd donate in money o’: I
material to help the Lions Club com- ;
plate th!: honor roll at an early date. I
You can leave your contribution at |
the Peebles Pharmacy, io .•are of T)r. i
I. P. Peebles, or any other member i
of the Lions Club. A complete list of I
the parents, relatives and friends I
will he made and published in The i
Wheoior- County Eagle at a later!
date, so that they might be given full I
credit for the help they give in help I
mg with this worthy and appreciated '
cause. Let’s put this over the top.
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SG I’. HARLOW CLARK
Killed in Action in France
July 18, 1944
HIDDEN TAXES BRING
IN ADDED REVENUE
Fifty thousand dollars in “escape”
.axes have been collected during 1944
by the State Revenue Department,
and it is now in the field to bring in
thousands of dollars from other hid
den taxes dating back for six years.
State Revenue Commissioner J.
Eugene Cook, in a report to Gover
nor Arnall, sets forth also that these
taxes arc due on stocks and bonds 1
'..Kose owners either were ignorant
of the law or neglected to pay the
intangible taxes.
The amount of such taxes was dis
covered by the department through
checking at the source and from cer
tificates from corporations listing
Georgia stockholders.
MRS. MCNEAL GETS
FIRST BALE COTTON
Mrs, Inez McNeal and sons>
farming on the farm of Sheriff
Sears, between Alamo and Scot
land was the first farmer to
bring the first 1944 cotton to the
gin. The cotton was ginned at
the Car’-01l and Hattaway Elects
ric Gin here. The bale weighed
430 pounds. Mrs. McNeal came
in latter on with the second bale.
The first bale was ginned last
Friday afternoon, and both bales
were stored in the Carroll and
Hattaway Warehouse here.
Ernest Jenkins Home
On 30-Day Furlough
Ernest T. Jenkins, Q. M. l:c
of the United States Navy is
borne visiting his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. R. G. Jenkins and
family on a3O day furlough. He
i ha* had 20 months oversea duty,
but it has been 27 months since
he has visited home. He served
20 months in the Pacific and
some time in the Atlantic
Sample Copy 5c Number 15
Ml EM IS RECIPIENT
«f IHBEE (IRTifICATES
I • tu ,
Hie Eagle gladly e knowledges the
arnval of three u.L ned Certificates
tor services rendered in this war
ciit)rt.
Recently one came direct from
Hou. Henry Morgenthau, Jr. Secre
tary of the United States Treasury
ami it is an attractive card slating
that it was sent in appreciation of
the efforts .if The Eagle in running
I and giving up so many inches during
■ lue bond campaign.
1 Another one is from the Georgia
' ohmteers War Service Council, sav
mag that the ‘citation of Merit as'a
• Own for distinguished. faithful and
patriotic service to community state
and national war effort.” This one is
signed by Governor Ellis Arnall, Di
rector Lon Sullivan, and Elbert Fos
ter, director of war campaign.
, The third one is from the Army
■ervice Force, of Atlanta, and is a
very neat certificate indeed and one
- Very ‘'^Bly appreciated by
I ne Eagle. It is sent “for public
service rendered and it is signed by
M i<>r General F. E. Uhl, of the
I । ted States Army, Atlanta, Head
imrters of the Fourth Service Com
mand.
All of these certificates are in The
1 :gle office and we will be glad for
you to see them at any time.
DEDICATION OF CHURCH
TO BE HELD SEPTEMBER 3
She dedication of the new Brown-
Vlmho.list Church, located on the
U:mm Spring Hill public road, will
>e held on September 3, according
an announcement of Rev. R. L.
'mrp, the pastor. The dedication
crmi .n will bo delivered bv Rev. Le
and Moore, district superintendent.
At the noon hour a basket dinner
'ViII be spread on the church grounds,
'o v. R. L. Harris will be master
। ceremonies, of which the following
■ irogram will be a part:
tweia] music . w. E. Currie
he Church School Mrs. C. M. Jordan
Vh 't I Think of a Country
( hurch” Jeter Hurtz
beautifying Church
(.rounds” Mrs. Johnny Clements
(m-operativc Community”
1 J. H. Walker
■ Ilie revival meeting will start on
. ;; simo day. .September 3. Rev.
j hosier Gilbert, of Davisboro, will
■o the preach irj throughout the fol
owvtg week. *<N. Gilbert is a for
ner resident of Alamo and has many
verm friends here who will no doubt
to and hear him at Browns new
hurch. Everyone has an invitation
if attend.
CARD OF THANKS
We wish to express our deep
ppreciations to our many friends
of Wheeler County for their
>indiie»B, after receiving the
telegram our son and brother,
Paul Nelms was killed in France.'
We recall his favorite poem
which was written by his sister,
Mrk. Guetrude Cravey, of this
county.
PREPARD SOLDIER
Mother I am going to battle
It breaks your heart I know
But if God calls before downing
He will find me ready logo,
Tell my gray haird daddy
1 f I never see him any more
I expect to clasp his hands
Over on that Golden Shore
ind to see ail my friends and
love ones.
After I have gone away
There will be no war in
Heaven,
Meet me there some sweet day
As for you my dearest mother
I am truly satisfied.
I know about all others
You will meet me on the
Other side.
Mr. and Mrs, Tom Nelma
and Family.
A Happy Meeting Held
By Wheeler Soldiers
A happy meeting by three old
friends was held a few days ago
somewhere in the Pacific, was
when Marshall Gillis, Garland
Sumner and Edsel Joiner all
three spent the day together.
The three were friends while
here in Alamo in civilian life.
Coal has been known for over
2,000 years.
