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The South't Standard Newspaper THE CONSTITUTION, ATLANTA, WEDNESDAY, DEC. 2, 1942. Page Eleven ft- i If Jap Transports Deserted in Battle, Wolfert Reveals (This is the third and last in a series of three articles on the rout of the Japanese naval forces in the Solomons on November 13-15.) By IRA WOLFERT, Tot North American Newspaper Alliance. FROM A BASE IN THE GUADALCANAL SECTOR, Nov. 15 (Delayed) When the Jap warships ran from the scene of battle, to leave their transports wide open to the rain of our bombs, it caused our command to think that the Japs were up to some ruse.

It seemed inexplicable to our kind of fighters to leave their own men to be massacred help i 4- V. ft 15. fan 4 China to Mould Far East, Says Dr. D.F. Stamps Baptist Missionary 'To Speak Tonight at Druid Hills.

By LOUIE D. NEWTON, Pastor Druid Hills Baptist Church. "China will mould the Far East of the post-war world," declared Dr. Drew F. Stamps, Southern Baptist missionary in China for the past two decades, stationed at Chinkiag, Hwanghsien and Yang-chow, and now back in the United States, having returned jn the repatriate S.

S. Gripsholm in the early autumn. Dr. and Mrs. Stamps are now in Atlanta, the guests of the Druid Hills Baptist church.

They will speak at a meeting at Druid Hills tonight at 8 o'clock, and Dr. Stamps will preach at the 11 o'clock worship service Sunday morning. His sermon will be broadcast over radio station WGST. I was plying Dr. Stamps with questions about the China of to Our flyers were sickened at the Caddy Indicted On Black Rock Murder Count 'Blabber' Russell's Trial Is Scheduled for December 16.

The Fulton county grand jury yesterday indicted John Thomas "Bubber" RusselL zoot-suited Negro caddy and amateur golfer and ex-convict, on the charge of murdering George H. A. Thomas, operator of the Black Rock Country Club, on November 23. Just after the indictment, ths solicitor general's office announced that Russell would be placed on trial in Fulton superior court before Judge Virlyn B. Moore na December 16.

Russell was arrested within 24 hours after the sportsman was reported missing from the clubhouse on the Campbellton road, and Fulton county police reported he confessed to the crime. Thomas' body was found on the golf links by the superintendent of the club grounds, R. H. Harris. He hat! been shot to death witii his own revolver.

The Negro admitted, according to the police, that he went to Thomas, who had befriended him many times, to get $20. Thomas let him in the clubhouse, and Russell told the police that he struck him in the face, forced him to open the safe and give him i'-s contents, and then took him out on the golf links, where he shot him. Puerto Rican Leader To Defend Tu swell MIAMI, Dec. 1. (JPy Uris Munoz Marin, leader of the majority party and president of the senate in Puerto Rico, arrived by clipper today on the way to Washington to defend the island's governor, Rexford G.

TugwelL from charges made in congress recently by his critics. Tugwell has been under fire in the United States senate, which plans a committee investigation of economic conditions in Puerto Rico. Russell High To Present 'Pearl Harbor' Program The Diversified Co-operative Training class at Russell school in East Point will present a "Bombing of Pearl Harbor" program at the weekly school assembly Monday morning. Bonds or stamps will be the admission fee, and recor iing of President Roosevelt's speech of December 8, 1941, and movies of the Pearl Harbor bombing will featured. CHIPS AND CHARM These Fulton High school lassies, Betty Hughey (left) and June" Parker (right), have cornered the Girl Reserve Committee chairman, Mrs.

Boiling Jones (center), and sold her the first bag of potato chips in the Girl Reserves' campaign. Proceeds will go to the organization's newspaper and individual clubs. tel.1 Hartle Temporary Chief Of U. S. Army in Britain 1 LONDON, Dec.

Major General Russell P. Hartle is temporarily in command of the United States Army in the United kingdom during the absence of Lieutenant General Dwight D. Eisenhower, American Army headquarters for the European theater announced today. Eisenhower is in active command of the Allied expedition in North Africa. Prior to this temporary assignment to the United Kingdom command Hartle was commanding general of United States troops in Northern Ireland.

He has been in the European theater of operations for several months. WOMEN RAILROADERS. NEW YORK, Dec. I. (A) The Long Island raidroad today had 28 women working as engine cleaners for the first time in the carrier's history.

They work at the Morris Park yards near Ja maica, Th. Y. They vary widely in age and experience and one who has five children still manages to cook dinner and do her housework every night. centered largely in educational and evangelistic effort. He has served as a professor in the Baptist seminary at Hwanghsien, and has preached in many provinces throughout the vast country.

Mrs. Stamps has done evangelistic work and taught in several of the Bible schools. Dr. Stamps is the author of a number of books. They have one son living, George, now a student at Wake Forest College and just on.

the eve of entering the air service with the armed forces. They have two children buried in China, Margaret, 5, and Winston, 9. Both children are buried at Chinkiang. Asked what he thought of the Christian missionary enterprise after the war, Dr. Stamps declared: "It seems to me that the opportunity for Christian work after the war will be greater than before the war." Plans Made To Increase.

Australia's Food Supply CANBERRA, Australia, Dec. 1. (JP) A major increase in Australia's food production wrs mapped today by Australian and United States officials after notice that all ships from the United States now must carry munitions and other war supplies. Food will not be shipped, and Australia now must feed all troops in this war area. Supply Minister John Beasley, who is also the head of the min istry of shipping, was working out the problem in conjunction with United States officials.

STAMP PADS Clearprint Instant Dryinr CARITIIERS-WALLACE-COURTEXAY 17 Houston St. WA. 9109 a TO PREACH HERE Dr. Drew F. Stamps, Baptist missionary to China, who will speak tonight at the Druid Hills Baptist church.

State Spurs Effort To Cut Bus Mileasro Schools Soon Must Show Proof of Conservation To Get Supplies. Efforts of Georgia counties to eliminate unnecessary school bus mileage ana inaugurate other conservation methods were spurred by announcement from the Office of Defense Transportation that gasoline, tires and spare parts for school buses will be provided after February "only upon the submission of demonstrated proof that the conservation policies have been carried out," Dr. M. D. Collins, state school superintendent, said yesterday.

Dr. Collins said the ODT had ruled that the use of school buses for sports events, such as basketball games, will not be authorized this winter. Warnings that school systems and private owners would have to conserve their school bus equipment came seve -al weeks ago, and the educators began immediately to put their house in order by naming a full-time supervisor of transportation, Claude PurcelL Miles Eliminated. "Walton county already has eliminated 168 miles a day in its school bus routes, demonstrating what can be done when strict is put into practice," said J. I.

Allman, assistant state superintendent. J. Mason Williams, Walton county school superintendent, reported to the State Department of Education that the 168 mile- of driving a day had been cut off a 'thout seriously curtailing the local educational program. This conservation move will mean a saving of approximately $3,600 a year to the Walton county system, which owns its school buses. "We have every reason to believe that similar revisions in school bus routes can be made in every county in Georgia," Dr Collins said.

12-Point Policy. The 12-point policy demanded by Guy Kelcey, regional director of ODT local transport division, follows: 1. Elimination of unnecessary mileage, including side trips, so that the maximum number of pu pils can be carrjed with the mini mum number of bus miles. 2. Transportation will be provided only for students, teachers or other school employes who would have to walk more than two miles to school, or more than a mile and a half to the school bus main route.

3. Pupils shall be required to use available public transportation facilities where such would per mit a reduction in school bus miles. 4. Existing boundary lines, of school administrative units, such as districts or counties, shall not be allowed to prevent the maxi mum reduction in the number of buses and bus miles. Pupils must attend the nearest school having space and facilities in the appro priate grade level, regardless of county lines.

5. Bus stops for receiving or discharging pupils will be spaced from one-eighth to one-quarter mile apart, except for physically-handicapped children. 6. School authorities will cooperate in arranging staggered school hours where the effectiveness of existing transportation facilities can be increased by such a move, or where a specific transportation problem calls for a change in school hours. 7.

Existing contracts will be renegotiated when necessary to facilitate reorganization of school bus routes. 8. Use of school buses for school transportation will be limited to the transportation of pupils, teachers and other school employes between their homes and the schools. 9. School officials and bus operators will co-operate in arranging for the use of school buses in essential worker transportation.

10. Every practicable means of maintaining buses in good operating condition will be effected, in accordance with a program adopted by the National Council of Chief State School Officers, and the ODT's conservation program. 11. Careful selection, adequate training and supervision of drivers will be effected, since the driver is an important factor in bus conservation. 12.

Each local school administrative unit will co-operate with adjoining units and state and federal authorities to make a comprehensive survey of school transportation, prepare route maps of counties, and reorganize routes for maximum efficiency. "XT i V7 Girl Reserves Sell Chips To Raise Funds Returns To Be Used for Newspaper and Club Activities. More than 600 'teen age girls in Fulton and DeKalb counties yesterday set out on foot and by bicycle on a door-to-door endeavor to get their neighbors and friends to buy potato chips. It is the Girl Reserve's first potato chip sale, an enterprise to raise funds for the support of the organization's newspaper, "The Girl Reserve Gleam," and for club activities. Two students of North Fulton High, Betty Hughey and June Parker, sold the first bag of potato chips to Mrs.

Boiling Jones, chairman of the Girl Reserve committee. From now to December 10, the girls will work before and after school taking orders for the chips, which will be delivered later. The two girls selling the most potato chips will have their expenses paid at Camp Highland next summer, and the club, with the best per member record, will receive a silver loving cup. When placing your Want Ad in The Constitution inquire about the attractive Want Ads. aaaasssi lessly.

But it was not a ruse. House Group OkaysModificd Tariff Measure Denies F. D. Request To Override Alien Barriers. WASHINGTON, Dec.

1. A modified wartime measure, granting President Roosevelt power to suspend tariff regulations, but omitting the authority he asked to override immigration barriers, emerged today from a House Ways and Means sub-committee. In quick answer to White House pressure for action on the measure this year, the sub-committee turned the compromise over to the full committee, which will consider it tomorrow and decide whether or not to hold public hearings. Other than omission of the section covering entrance of Allies, the redrafted bill differed little from the form in which it was presented previously to the full committee. Just what reception it would draw remained uncertain.

Under its terms, the President would have "discretionary" authority to suspend tariff laws and regulations on the recommendation of any of several war agencies that the suspension was necessary to the prosecution of the war. It retained a three-way check-rein on duration of the emergency powers, providing for their automatic expiration on December 31, 1943, or whichever date comes first. Meanwhile, there arose the possibility that a long-standing controversy over importation of Argentine beef and other "competing" commodities might delay the movement of the legislation through the house and senate before the end of the seventy-seventh congress January 3. The fear of some lawmakers that the new powers could be used tr bring competing products into this country duty free was disclosed by the release of testimony presented last week before an executive session of the full committee. Representative Carlson (Republican, Kansas), a committee member, declared during that session that "we, in the argiculture section, have battled for years and we are still concerned about the importation of competitive commodities, especially meats.

"I do not think it is unfair to say that this administration has for years tried to bring in imports of beef from South America on a lower tariff, and I think they would be very happy if they could bring it in without any tariff." In both the house and senate, there has been a persistent demand for public hearings on the bill. That demand was reiterated today by Representative Reed (Republican, New York), ranking minority member of the sub-committee, who said that "we want to make certain that there is noth ing interpreted as being in the bill which is not actually there. He added that, while tariff legislation always developed controversy, "the public is ready to see that the war is not hampered by any preconceived notions. Court Decisions IUPRIMI COURT OF GEORGIA. Judammli Affirmed.

Alien el v. Davis et and vice vena, from Clarke superior court Judge Pratt. W. G. Cornett, Carlisle Cobb, for plaintiffs.

Rupert A. Brown, Dorsey pa- vis. Shackelford Sc Shackelford, for defendants. Holton v. Mercer et from Bacon superior court judge Dickerson.

H. Cauev. HiRhsmith Ac Highsmith, for plaintiff. C. A.

Williams, T. J. Town send, for drfrndants. Beaieri v. Mabry et al from Sumter superior court Judge Worrlll.

H. J. Barnn, for plaintiff. R. Mnynard R.

O. Jones, fur defendants. Tapley v. Claxton et from Johnson superior court Judge Camp. Rowland Si Rowland, for plaintiff.

C. S. Claxton, for defendants. Nunn v. State: from Laurens superior court Judge Camp.

R. I. Stephens, for plaintiff in error. Ellis G. Arnail, attorney general: J.

Eugene Cook, solicitor general; A. J. HarUey, assistant attorney general, contra. First National Bank of Rome, executor, v. Howell; irom Floyd superior court Judge Porter.

Owens Mad-Sox, for plaintiff in error. Barry Wright, Jack Rogers, contra. Judgments Reversed. Morrison et al. v.

Roberts; from Chat ham superior court Judge Rourke. Abrahams. Bouhan, Atkinson St Lawrence, for p.amtiffs in error. Shelby Myrick, George H. Richter.

for persons at interest. Emanuel Kronstadt, contra. Hoiloway et al. Woods: from Sumter court Judge Harper. R.

L. Le Sueur, for plaintiffs. H. O. Jones, lor defendant.

Volunteer State Life Insurance Com panv of Tennessee v. Oglesby et from Jrnkins superior court Judge Evans. nrnrv Howard. lor piaintuf in error. Milton A.

Carlton. D. A. Bragg, John C. noiiinssworin, contra.

iwnt of error dimied on main bill of Floyd v. Parish: from Muscogee sun rior court Joseph Ray, Judge pro hac vice, in woruwender for plaintiff. it. m. Arnoia, ror oetendant.

COURT OF APPEALS OF GEORGIA, Judgments Affirmed. Southern Grocery Stores. v. Greer: from Lamar superior court Judge Persons. Hirsch.

Smith, Kilpatrlck Cody, Ct 'OU MAO A NiCK AS LONO AS THIS riLLQW AND HAB pSORE THROAT all UUC LULUS SHOULD OUICKIY StUIVt IT slaughter of the impotent Japs below them, but this was all in a day's work which had to be done. The Japs do not surrender, but have to be killed. The Jap leaders threw their men into a rapidly working blast furnace and insisted that they keep trying to crawl through it and their men kept trying. Not once did they halt their feeble, floundering crawl through the hot coals being poured on them. By nightfall they had succeeded in making 70 miles progress toward us.

All of our air forces in this area joined in what had become pick axe work. The pilots, setting their faces, called themselves the "buzzard brigade" but kept at it as relentlessly as the Japs. Battle's Harvest. All eight of the Japs troop trans ports had been sunk and only four of their medium-size1 cargo vessels remained afloat, and two of these were hit and burning. Our total cost for the day was four planes all shot down the last attack, possibly because, the pilots were exhausted.

In midafternoon of the same day the Japs on Guadalcanal, in formed of the disaster overtaking their reinforcements, managed to haul up a six-inch gun within range of Henderson airport, and made a pathetic effort to interrupt the work of our planes. Of the first 12 Jap shells, nine were duds and three made new bounc ing spots for our roaring jeeps. Two hours later the Japs fired nine more shells. Eight of hese were duds and the other one plowed up a new victory garden for us in the grass. And this was the sole "protection" the emperor could give his three divisions.

Japs' Last Effort. At 11:20 on Saturday night, the 14th, the emperor's divisions came flowing toward us monstrously, like some amputated torso gushing blood almost every inch, and made a last desperate effort to rob Guadalcanal. They sent planes, accompanied by a bombardment by a battleship force, but once again our Navy outwitted the Jap and anticipated his every move. This time we also outgunned him, and the Jap's last effort was his costliest. The Japs camd sweeping down from the west.

Our battleship force tailed them, but let them go around the north side of Savo tsianH while we. lagging a little behind, came around the south side, and caught mem in mm dream maneuver all navai warriors "crossing the 16-Inch Gnns Used This battle was also visible from the beach. It is believed here to be the first naval battle in history in which 16-inch guns were used against vessels. It was even more spectacular and terrible than Friday morning's battle, and again lasted about 30 minutes. In that time I counted 11 ships burning and exploding and sinking, two of them ours, but the Navy believes in erring on the side of caution.

At 11:50 o'clock the surviving Jap ships began steaming westward, firing over their shoulders. Our force gave chase, but the Japs were lost in the darkness shortly after 1 o'clock. But at 5 o'clock on Sunday morning flashes from explosions could be seen from Russell island, 40 miles away, which may have been th- jittery Japs tumbling over one another and firing away. The glares were so vast that they lit up the tired faces of the beach spectators even from that distance. Japs Beach Navy.

The morning's first light found the remains of the Jap sea train beached less than seven miles from where this is being written four cargo vessels. Destroyers had been shelling them and our flyers, still calling themselves the "Buzzard Brigade," had been over them without intermission, strafing and bombing. All four ships were gutted before noon. The ship nearest us, beached by the Poha river, had no superstructure or deck, and the flyers could see into the bowels of it, which was as red as an excavated heart. But the relentless Japs still had gunners standing in the water on the stern, throwing rocks.

The Japs managed to throw off what stores they could onto the beach, but they could not drag them toward the trees. Our flyers keep pounding the Jap corpse, cremating it with Molotov cocktails. The Jap stores are now making a fire a thousand yards long and 200 yards wide on the beach, and we intend to keep that fire burning until there's nothing left to burn. It warms our hearts. ARMY CONSTRUCTION OKAY.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 1. (P) The War Department has approved construction of an Army air forces installation at Memphis, Senator Stewart, Democrat, Tennessee, said today. E. D.

Smith Luclen P. Goodrich, for plaintiff in error. H. J. Kennedy, E.

O. Dobbs, contra. Kimberly Jewelry Company v. Perry: cross-bill of exceptions In case stated next below. Judgments Reversed.

Perry v. Kimberly Jewelry Company; from Fulton civil court Judge Carpenter. iC. D. Stewart, J.

V. Poole, for plaintiff. I W. F. Brandt, Winfield Payne Jones, for defendant.

I Department of Revenue v. Wardlaw; 1 from Walker superior court Judge Por- ter. Ellis G. Arnall. attorney-general Andrew J.

Tuten. assistant attorney gen- leral: Claude Shaw, for plaintiff. Wright St Willingham. Relci T. Moore, for day and the China of the recent yesterday when they went out there as missionaries, and then I asked him about the China of tomorrow, and he gave the answer with which I began this story, that China will mould the Far East in the post-war period.

Why Japs Invaded. "What does China think of the Unite! States?" I asked him. His penetrating eyes fairly shone as he answered: China believes that the United States is her friend. She has complete confidence in our sincerity in spite of what Japan is doing to break down that confidence. I asked Dr.

Stamps why Japan so treacherously and ruthlessly in vaded China. He replied: "Economic pressure and desire to dominate the Far East." "What, I asked him, "was your first impression of China upon arriving there more than 20 years ago?" "Its vastness and the unlimited opportunity for Christian service which was open to us as mission aries, he said. And then I asked him, as you would expect me to, what is his present impression about China. And he quickly answered: "The contribution which China can and will make to practical Christian living." Know China's Leaders. Since Dr.

and Mrs. Stamps personally know China's great leaders, Generalissimo Chiang Kai- shek and Madam Chiang Kai-shek, I asked them about these famous people, now so deeply cherished and admired in our country. "The generalissimo must be reckoned one of the five great leaders of the world today," said Dis Stamps. "I need not dwell upon his acknowledged political ability, only to emphasize the fact everywhere accepted in China that Chiang Kai-shek is the man of destiny for not only China, but for the vast Orient. And I attribute his true greatness, as he always is careful to do himself, to the fact that he Is an out and out Christian.

"Rarely have I come upon a man of such simple and profound Christian faith and practice. He never tires in declaring that he gratefully receives the Bible as God's revealed will. He believes it. He acts upon its teachings. He begins every day with a season of Bible study, and he faithfully observes a season of prayer every evening.

None who have ever been blessed by hearing Chiang Kai-shek pray can forget the way this great man talks to God. "And he teaches us all a very great truth concerning prayer in the fact that he not only talks to God about the little things and the great things, but he listeens for God to talk to him. Once when the Japanese bombed the generalissimo's house eight times the same day, he spent a portion of that very evening in prayer. He prayed for his people. He prayed for the Allied nations.

He prayed for his enemies." Thrillinr Story. Dr. Stamps recalled the thrilling story of how Madam Chiang Kai-shek flew In an airplane on December 22, 1936, and rescued the generalissimo from a ring of bandits who had captured him. "The generalissimo opened his Bible that morning to the 31st chapter of Jeremiah, and read these words in the 22d verse: 'The Lord hath created a new thing in the earth, a woman shall compass a He wondered what that verse could mean; but before noon that day his wife had effected his release and flew him safely back to the capital city." I first met Drew Stamps at Mercer University in 1910. He was a senior and I was a sophomore.

I was having a difficult time with Greek, and I discovered that this red-headed, freckled-faced senior from Carroll county knew his Greek. I used to tip-toe down the dormitory hall, far into the night, to his room to get him to straighten me out on some Greek idiom. Our friendship has ripened across the years, and I was very grate ful when our church was permit ted to pay the salary of Dr. Stamps as a missionary in China. Many Honors.

But this native son of Carroll county has other honors along with his distinguished achievements in China. After graduation from Mercer University and the Southern Theological Seminary, he was pastor of churches in Wisconsin and Georgia; and when World War I broke out, he went into the service as a chaplain. He served at Camp Hancock and Camp Green, and went overseas in the air service with the rank of first lieutenant, stationed at Romorantin, France. His work as a missionary has HERE COMES THE GROOM Ideal eroominar for your hair, 10c buys a big supply of MOROLINEtonic I "It's good to have you home for Christmas, son" This Christmas is going to be brighter for thousands of mothers because their sons in the service came home for the holidays. Other mothers will be traveling by train to visit their boys in camp.

Soldiers, sailors, marines parents, wives, sweethearts all must use our regular trains for Uncle Sam says, holiday or no holiday, we can't run extra trains or sections for civilian travel. That means crowded trains, at best. So before you plan to travel by train during the holidays, ask yourself this question: "Which is most important, my trip or theirs?" If your answer is "theirs, of and if you postpone your trip, you will know that you have helped someone to say: "It's good to have you home for Christmas, son." SOUTHERN RAILWAY SYSTEM I I 1 lil I I lllll 'uff .41 4.