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KEEP ON Backing the of Archives 1-1-44 -BUY WITH WA Department FORTY-FOURTH YEAR -No. 3. HEREFORD BULL OF GEO. WHITTINGTON SELLS FOR $6,750 Fancy Price Was Paid In U. S.

War! Bonds; Also Resold For $210.00 For Red Cross Fund The Registered Hereford Bull Calf, Domingo Morgan owned and bred by J. G. Whittington, of the Clear Springs, community, which he donated to the recent County War Bond Drive, we; tioned off in the War Bond Drive Auction and sold to Mr. Nolan Huddleston, of Tatum-Embry-Huddleston Company, Montgomery, for the handsome sum of $6,750. Mr.

Huddleston being the highest bidder and purchaser of this sum in War to secure the calf. This bull brought the highest sum of any animal offered. The next highest being $5,000 in War Bonds for a Hereford Heifer donated by Mr. Nolan Huddleston and purchased by Mr. R.

F. Hudson, publisher of the Montgomery Advertiser. On March 9th, Mr. Huddleston donated this bull for sale at the Hereford Round-Up Sale, to be sold for the benefit of the Red Cross Fund and he brought $210.00, thus further doing his bit for our boys on the fighting fronts. Mr.

Whittington is to be commended upon his high degree public spirit and patrotism in making this fine contribution to the war effort. He has been breeding Registered Herefords of the Domino and Anxiety strains for the past four years and has built one of the finest herds of Herefords in this part of the country. Mrs. E. B.

Stafford Dies March Seventh Mrs. E. B. Stafford, age 39, died at her home in East Florala March 7th, 1944. She was the daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. John O. Campbell of Samson, and was married to E. B. Stafford twenty-three years ago.

She was a member of the Baptist Church. Funeral services were held at Eight-Mile Church, with Rev. Parks Redwine, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Florala, officiating. Pall-bearers were Ebbie Nobles, Oscar Nobles, O. Nobles, W.

J. Batson, George Casey and J. D. Cuthrell. Survivors besides the husband, are children: Wilbur Stafford, United States Navy; Warren Stafford, U.

S. Navy; Frances Stafford, Iris ord, Mavelene Stafford, C. B. Stafford, Jr. Parents, Mr.

and Mrs. John B. Campbell, Samson; sisters, Mrs. Ruby King, Crestview; Mrs. W.

J. Churchwell, Crestview. IT HAPPENED IN FLORALA This is how we keep the Red Cross at his side? The family was called around the bedside mother was breathing her last. After the first shock was over, which always comes to a family when death takes away a member, thoughts turn to the son in the Army whom we shall call John. A telegram was sent to John at his Camp many miles away.

Anxiously word was awaited from John, but with the passing of the hours no message came from him. The local Red Cross was asked to help contact John. It was now late at night. The Florala Telegraph office was closed. A telegram was telephoned to Pensacola and sent to the Field Director at John's Camp.

An answer was received almost immediately from the Field Director that John was transferred two days before, but had been notified of his mother's death by the Red Cross at his new station. After two days of travel John was home on emergency furlough. It happened in Florala! We must keep the Red Cross at his side. Funeral Services Held For Infant Son Of Lt. And Mrs.

Kinsaul Funeral services were held for the infant son of Lieut. and Mrs. lace Kinsaul Wednesday morning at 10 o'clock at the Evans' Funeral Home, Rev. L. W.

Carleton, officiating. Lieut. and Mrs. Kinsaul's son had been given the name William Richard and died just fifteen hours after birth in a Pensacola hospital. Burial was made in the Greenwood cemetery.

Evans in charge. The many friends of Lieut. and Mrs. Kinsaul sympathize deeply with them in their great loss. The FORTY-FOURTH YEAR FLORALA, BAN IS PLACED ON PLEASURE USE OF TRUCKS IN COUNTY Operators Violating Fuel Regulations Will Face Regular Road Checks On Alabama Highways The Montgomery Office of Defense Transportation today warned the forest products industry in the Southeastern area that it is takling immediate action to end the wasteful and unnecessary use of gasoline by lumber trucks, many of which are being used for pleasure driving.

During recent weeks, the ODT office have said, been numerous lumber used on the highways pleasure driving both on week-days and holidays. "The gasoline allotted these trucks is for the moving of lumber and pulpwood," ODT District Manager at Montgomery declared. "The use of the gasoline for any other purpose, particularly for pleasure driving, is in defiance of the conditions of the certificate of war necessity under which the trucks are permitted to operate." Because of the many abuses, the ODT announced it would inaugurate regular road checks of lumber operations and other industries. Violators will face reduction of their gasoline allotments or complete revocation of their certificates of war necessity, without which the vehicles cannot be operated. In addition to spot checks by its own representatives, the ODT is asking the U.

S. Forestry Service to have forestry men report violations in which lumber trucks are used for any purpose not authorized by the certificates of war necessity. "With the entire southeast faced with a critical gasoline shortage, conservation of available gasoline is absolutely essential," Mr. Rast pointed out. "It is the job of the ODT to allocate on lie basis essentiality gasoline for the operation of trucks.

"There is just barely enough gasoline now available for essential operations. "Using truck gasoline for pleasure driving means that a weapon of war is being wasted. For, frankly, there is just not enough truck gasoline available for pleasure driving. The quanities allotted for essential operations must be used as zealously as a soldier uses his ammunition." If inclement weather or other circumstances prevents regular operation of trucks, surplus gasoline tickets should be returned at the expiration of each operation quarter, Mr. Rats said.

Seniors Crowned As King And Queen Of Paxton High School The Senior candidates for 1 the King and Queen won the contest held at Paxton, Wednesday, March 8, at the Red Cross Rally. Horace Franklin and Edna Earle Nobles, seniors, were crowned as King and Queen. The other candidates were: Connie Tucker and Nellie -11th grade; Carnie Nobles and Elise McReynolds, 10th grade; Jesse Paul and Annie Sue Davis, 9th grade. Edna Earle and Horace with a majority of 700 votes. Another attraction of the Red Cross Rally held last Wednesday evening was the Rhythm Band led by by Principal C.

C. Parrish, with drum. The other players and instruments were as follows: Christine McCurley, bells. Effie Adams, bells. Anna Mae Gomillion, bells.

Ethelyne Adams, tambourine. Montrell Chandler, tambourine. Velma Grace Jowers, sticks. Doris Jean Miller, sticks. Junita Adams, cymbols.

Armilla Nance, cymbals. Alyne Geohagan, bells. Gladys Nall, piano. Songs played were, "The Cassions Go Rolling Along" and "I've Got the Rhythm In My Nursery Rhyme." Anther item of interest of the evening was the Prettiest Baby Contest. The contestants were: Bobby Adams -Son of Mr.

and Mrs. Dan Adams. Sandra Jane Summerlinof Mr. and Mrs. Wilson Summerlin.

Joyce Ann Howell Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Milford Howell. Frances Nell Jordan--Daughter of Mr. and Frank Jordan.

Mary Ann Braswell-Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Woodrow Braswell. Frances Nell Jordan was the winner of the contest. In all, the Seniors did their part in raising this district's Red Cross quota, wheh was eight hundred dollars.

Quinton Stafford of New York, was called home this week due to the death of his mother, Mrs. E. B. Stafford. News AT HOME- Sen.

Hill Raps Selfish Interests Of Opponents In Far Flung Address WASHINGTON, D. March 15. -A charge that "huge sums of monley" are being spent in Alabama from the "swollen war profits" of "gluttonous" and "selfish" forces to defeat him for election to a second full term in the United States Senate, was made here by Senator Lister Hill in his opening campaign speech, broadcast to Alabamians over 16 of the state's 17 radio stations. Senator Hill asserted that these: are the same kind of groups that 'destroyed all hope for peace" after World War I and that they are to make "history repeat itself" by electing from Alabama "their lawyer or special spokesman" to replace him in the Senate. "These selfish groups hire men to rush over the state with false and misleading propaganda," the Senator declared, and "these hirelings evidently have taken a page from Hitler's book and believe that the bigger and more preposterous the story they tell, the more likely it is to be believd." He said that in this they mistake the people of Alabama.

"You are too fair and too intelligent to be fooled by propagandists hired to destroy the reputation of the people's elected officials," he added. "The pecple of Alabama can distinguish between that which is true and that which is false." The Senator sail that "the skill and knowledge a mana has gained by experience belong to his country" and he pointed to his experience of 20 years in Congress and the important assignments which have beea given him in the Senate, such as Demo. cratic Whip, making him second in authority to that of Democratic leadmembership on the Military Affairs Committee and other important committee memberships. In asking the people of Alabama to give him a second term "in accordlance with the Democratic custom and tradition, Senator Hill asserted: "These selfish and reactionary groups, with their scheming leaders and busy underlings over the State of Alabama, do not want me reelected. They are against me because they know that I have served all the epople of Alabama and NOT and will NOT be the special representative of their selfish interests." PATRIOTIC COUNTY PRAISED BY F.

S. A. AID IN WORLD WAR Alabama Leads Three Other Dixie States In Furnishing Regional Employees To U. S. Armed Forces Farm Security Administration employes of Covington county are proud of the number of employees who are enrolled in the armed services from the county and throughout the region, Samuel T.

Windham, County FSA' Supervisor, declared yesterday. A total of four men from Covington county who were employed by are now in the service. Vacancies have been filled by women and older men throughout the State and nation in line with the national policy established by President Roosevelt and Se retary of Agriculture Wickard. Only two deferments have been granted among all FSA employees in four states of Alabama, Florida, Georgia and South Carolina, and these were to employes attached to the national office. A total of 538 or more than one-third of the FSA employes from the four states are in the armed forces, including twenty-one women.

FSA employees of Covington county who are in the armed services are: William R. Cash, former Assistant RR Supervisor; John C. Holmes, former County RR Supervisor; Benjamin M. Stone, former Assistant RR Supervisor; and Ulay K. Wise, former Assistant RR Supervisor.

The number in the armed services by states follows: ALABAMA-150 men, four women, plus 124 men and 11 women from the regional office in Montgomery. Florida-39 men, and woman. Georgia-136 men, three women. South Carolina-68 men, two women. MR.

AND MRS. HAIGLER VISIT PARENTS Mr. and Mrs. Joe Melborn Haigler have returned to Bainbridge, after having visited his parents for the past week. Mrs.

Haigler was before her marriage Miss Fila Ramirez de Arellano, of Maguez, Puerto Rico and Washington, D. C. Mr. Haigler is Chief Petty Officer with Navy and was stationed in the West Indies for two years, having been transferred back to the States in November. He is now awaiting new assignment.

-SELL, THURSDAY ALABAMA AND WEST FLORIDA THURSDAY, MARCH 16, 1944. A list of the names of Covington County's men and women in the Armed Forces is now being prepared to go on the Memorial Board on the Court House grounds in Andalusia. If anyone having relatives or friends in the service who were not DRAFTED by ONE OF THE DRAFT BOARDS OF COVINGTON COUNTY will please turn in his or her name to Mr. M. E.

Cannon or Mr. Jas. M. Prestwood, Andalusia, or any other member of the Junior Chamber of Commerce. It will be greatly appreciated.

Every effort is being made to compile a complete list of the names of the members of the Armed Forces whose home i is in Covington to be placed on this Memorial Board but the full cooperation of the public will be necessary to accomplish this. In reporting please give complete name first, middle and last SO that a check can be made against the list that has already been compiled and thereby avoid any duplication of names. Do this today! Paxton Sophomore Class To Present Play Of Season Tomorrow PUBLISHED SERVING SOUTH COVINGTON COUNTY, Attention! "Aunt Samanthy Rules The Roost," presented by the Sophomore Class of Paxton High School, will be an event at Paxton tomorrow. A hilarious, screaming and funny play in three acts. "Aunt Samanthy a man-hating eccentric old maid.

who owns a chicken farm, frightens all the young men away from her charming neices Serena and Sophie. Serena is gradually growing just like her aunt, but Sophie rebels and starts something. She writes love messages on eggs and ships them While Polly, the hired girl, buys love powders for Buddy Barkins, the grocery boy. She puts them in lemonade for him and "Aunt Samanthy" gets it instead. Come and see what happens then! Remember the date and place--at Paxton High School, Friday, March 17.

Corp. Mack Stewart At Treasure Island Corp. Mack R. Stewart, son of Mrs. Bertie Stewart of 420 South McDonough Street, Montgomery, and grandson of Mr.

and Mrs. Joe Helms, former residents of Florala, is at present stationed at Treasure Island, San Francisco, Calif. He entered the Marine Corps on July 1, 1943, and took his boot training at Farris Island, S. C. He was selected for a specialized training course, and was sent from New River, N.

to Wright's Junior College, Chicago, going from there to Utah State College, Logan, Utah. He was recently promoted from the grade of private first class to that of Corp. a Stewart is enjoying the Marines and thinks it is the finest branch of the service. A graduate of Covington County High School, Florala, Corp. Stewart was a sophomore in civil engineering at A.

P. Auburn, when he went into the Marine Corps. During the summer months, 1 he worked with the Seventh Division of the Alabama 17945 Highway Department. RATION CALENDAR PROCESSED FOODS: Green and (Book 4) expire 1 March 20. Blue A8 through E8 (Book 4) now valid at 10 points each, for use with tokens; all expire May 20.

MEATS and FATS: Brown and (Book 3) expire March 20; Red A8, B8, C8, D8, E8 and F8 (Book 4) now valid at 10 points each, for use with tokens; all expire May 20. SUGAR: Sugar stamp No. 30 (in Book 4) good for five pounds indefinitely. Sugar Stamp No. 31 (Book 4) good for five pounds, becomes valid April 1.

CANNING SUGAR: Sugar Stamp No. 40 good for five pounds of ning sugar until February 28, 1945. SHOES: Stamp No. 18 (Book 1) expires April 30. Airplane Stamp No.

1 (Book 3) valid indefinitely. shoe stamp, yet to be designated will become valid May 1. GASOLINE: A-10 coupons now valid, expire March 21. Mr. and Mrs.

C. E. White of Dadeville, Alabama, visited in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Guy Wilson this week.

S.2-c Foster Howard, who is stationed at Pensacola, spent the week end with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Howard.

AT HOME-. Two Florala Men Recruits At U.S. Naval Training Station New recruits at the U. S. Naval Training Station, Great Lakes, Illinois, are two Florala men.

They are now receiving in seamanship, military drill and naval procedure. Soon they will be given a series of aptitude tests for determining whether they will be assigned to one of the Navy's service schools, or to immediate active duty at sea. Upon completing their recruit training, these men will be home on a nine-day leave. They are: Harold Vinning Carrington, 39, husband of Mrs. Annie Lou Carrington, R.

F. D. No. 1: and Edgar George McAdams, 17, son of Mr. and Mrs.

William Wright McAdams, Route One. Game Wardens Needed In Covington Residents of Covington county who are interested in a position with the State as Game Warden should file application before March 31, Application forms may be obtained by writing the State Personal Department, Montgomery Ala. Though applicants may' not be interested in employment before the opening of the hunting season this fall, application should be made now. Eligible lists will be established and appointments made as the need occurs. Staff Sargent Dixon's Mother Receives His 'Purple Heart' Mrs.

Frank Dixon of Laurel Hill, Florida, Route 2, mother of Staff Sargeant Frank Dixon, is receiving the soldier's Purple Heart awarded posthumously to her son by the famed Field Artillery Tank Destroyer Battalion, who sacrificed his life in defense of his country. The War Department reported his death on February 23 as being killed in January 30th. Staff Sergeant Dixon! survived the African and Sicily "march of, death" and was killed ing the battle of Casino in Italy. Staff Sergeant Dixon had been overseas for twenty months, volunteering his services before Harbor. Mrs.

Dixon received a letter from Henry L. Stinson, Secretary of War, who informed her of the Purple Heart Award. In his letter he said, "Little that we can do or say will console you for the death of your loved one. We profoundly appreciate the greatness of your loss, for in a real sense the loss suffered by one of us in this battle for our country is a loss shared by all of us. I want you to know that with the Medal goes my sincerest sympathy, and the hope that time and the victory of our cause will finally lighten the burden of your grief." DRIVE TO MOBILIZE PRICE CONTROL BEGAN MONDAY A drive to mobilize price control forces among retailers and consumers in Covington county was launched Monday, March 13 under the direction of the local war price and rationing board.

The program calls for volunteer price panel representatives to conduct a survey of every food store in this area with the main objective of helping retailers to understand necessary pri control requirements. In the survey, food items will be checked for selling and ceiling prices. A second check, about two weeks later, will be made of all food stores where price violators were discovered on the first check. Later, storekeepers who were found "out of line" during the second survey will be asked to meet with the price panel of the local board and deliberate violators will be referred to the OPA district office for enforcement action. One of the primary jobs of the local board now is to show retailers that complete compliance with price regulations will result in firm control of living costs in this area.

The drive also will serve to protect storekeepers land their customers from black market competition. "At the same time," OPA' officials said, "it will enable the board to bring deliberate violators to. the attention of OPA enforcement officials as a protection for the great majority of honest merchants who abiding by the price control regulations." Mrs. Minnie Shepherd is visiting relatives in Montgomery. BUY WAR BONDS and give the change to fight INFANTILE PARALYSIS SUBSCRIPTION: $1.50 THE YEAR JAPS 'DUG' OUT OF MARSHALLISLANDS BY U.S.

7th DIVISION "It Was Just Like Killing Rats," Declared Col. S. E. Faine; Praises Courage and Efficiency Of Doughboys. The following item will be of much interest in Florala as Col.

Syril E. Faine is well known. His wife is the former Miss Wilfred Price, daughter of Mrs. Julia Price. WASHINGTON.

Doughboys of the Seventh Infantry Division who captured Kwajalein and other islands of the Kwajalein atoll during the invasion of the Marshall Islands literally had to dig the Japanese out of the ground, it was revealed this week by Col. Syril E. Faine, of New Straitsville, Ohio, who arrived i in the United States this week from the Central Pacific. Colonel Faine, an Army ground forces observer who acted as deputy chief of staff of the division during the six-day campaign, said the Japanese defenders of the mid-Pacific coral base had taken refuge in hundreds of shell craters by the time the first waves cf infantry hit the shore on January 31, February 1, Pacific Time). Like Killing Rats "It was just like killing rats," he declared.

"The whole island was rubble, after the preliminary bombling and shelling. The Japs had crawled underground wherever they could, and the infantrymen had to stop at every hole and fire down into it, cr throw grenades into it." Colonel Faine, a staff officer at AGF Headquarters, Washington, praised the methodical and thorough planning that went into the operation, and the teamwork among Army and Navy forces. "The whole attack was coordinated beautifully," he said. "Every man knew exactly where he was supposed to go and exactly what he was supposed to do. Several days before the actual assault, the whole division practiced it at an island on which the outline of our objective had been carefully marked with white tape." The Japs tried hard to hang onto their key bases, Colonel Faine said.

Hundreds of pillboxes, from inches to three feet thick, made of concrete and coconut logs and covered with sand, blocked the infantry's progress. There were also underconcrete shelters five feet thick, with filmsy wooden shacks over them as camouflage. That the Japs were by no means ready to abandon their positions in the Marshalls was indicated by the fact that the Americans found quantities of building concrete and reinforcing iron, presumably intended for use in constructing additional fortifica- tion. Courage Praised Colonel Faine spoke highly of the courage and efficiency of the soldiers of the Seventh Division, who previously earned the distinction, at Attu, of regaining the first United States territory lost to the Japs in this war, and who now hold the added distinction of having seized, with the Fourth Marine Division, the first ground which belonged to Japan at the start of the war. "The infantry moved swiftly and deliberately," he said.

"Every last detail had been planned in advance. The wounded were evacuated as soon as they were collected, and the chaplains had a cemetery finished by the time I left, just after the last Jap had been put out of commission." Rear Admiral Richard K. Turner, U. S. Navy, commanding the amphibious force, and Maj.

Gen. Charles H. Corlett, U. S. Army, commanding the Seventh Division, both saluted the American dead at a moving ceremony held on Kwapalein in a in graveyard built among the shattered trunks of coconut palms, Colonel Faine reported.

The Japanese were up to their usual tricks, he disclosed. Although driven steadily back from the moment the first doughboy hit the beach, they tried one abortive counterattack, led by a private first class and punctuated by loud bugle calls. Even after they were hopelessly defeated, they refused to give up. At one point in the action, an American aid station was established close to a pile of three apparently dead Japs. Only two of them, it turned out, were really dead.

The third, at the bottom of the heap, pulled himself up after playing possum for long time and fired one ineffectual shot at an American officer. Other Japs blew themselves up with grenades. Admiral Disguised Self Japanese prisoners stated that their commanding officer, an admiral, had disguised himself as an army just before the end of the battle. His body was never identified. The landing on the Marshalls, Colonel Faine said, was preceded by one (Continued to page 2) RED CROSS DRIVE GETS OFF TO SLOW START THIS WEEK Chairman Hubert Evans Expresses Hope That Campaign Will Get In Full Swing Soon The Red Cross campaign in this area for $3500 in war funds was off to a slow start this week as subcommittees did not become active until Monday against their scheduled starting date of last week.

Chairman Hubert J. Evans said the campaign had not developed as he had hoped it would but that he felt confident it would hit its stride within the next few days. Local campaign leaders are asking that citizens make their donations when first contacted so that those making the canvass will not have to return again and again to complete the job. Chairman Evans feels that citizens in this area had only to be seen and asked to assure genercus gifts for the 1944 war-time campaign of this organization. An extensive program of aid on the battlefields and at home to service men and women and their families has been planned.

Encouraging reports have been made by the committee of Industries. The Franklin-Ferguson Co. and the Gitenstein Brothers have pledged $1,418.50 for the Red Cross War Fund. Credit should be given to the following departments for very satisfactory results that have been made by these patriotic men and women. It is Hoped that citizens of Florala will be as generous as these employees and the Gitensteins in their donations.

Department No. 1 pledged Department No. 2, Trimming Department No. 2, Department No. 3, Department No.

3, Trimming, Department No. 4, Cutting Room No. 1, Cutting Room, No. 2, $60.00. This committee reports that not all the employees have been contactled and there are still chances of additional pledges being made.

Good reports are also being received from Lockhart. If you haven't been contacted by one of the Red Cross committees, please send your contribution to Mr. (Hubert J. Evans, chairman. IT HAPPENED NEAR FLORALA The dector said she had only a short time to Her son, whom (we shall call Tom, was at his post of duty in the Panama Canal Zone as a loyal soldier in the U.

S. Army. The mother wanted to see her son before she died. A member of the family wrote Tom about his mother's condition and her desire to see him. Tom talked to his Commanding Officer who asked the Red Cross Field Director at the camp to obtain a Home Condition Report and Recomhendation from the local Red Cross.

The request was radioed to Washington and forwarded as a telegram to Florala. emergency furlough was recommended. Tom was given a seat on the first plane leaving the Panama Canal Zone and was with his mother within seventy-two hours. DID YOU KNOW? Did you know Cross is asked to deaths in service over 90 percent of emergency furlough quested? that the local Red verify sickness and men's families in the cases when an or leave is re- Clyde Mickler Is Home On Furlough Staff Sergeant Clyde Mickler and wife are at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs.

Troy Mickler for a several weeks' furlough. Staff Sergeant Mickler has been in overseas duty in Africa and Italy since last August, until recently. For part of that time he was confined to an Army hospital. Staff Sergeant Mickler expresses his happiness at being home again and to be able to meet and greet old friends. He was accompanied by his wife of Sweetwater, Texas.

Fires Drain Manpower Stressing the need of prevention of forest fires, the U. S. Forest Service points out that manpower, essential in war industries, training camps and on farms, must be diverted to fight such fires. Mrs. T.

C. Penton and Mrs. Sam Clark spent Friday in Evergreen visiting Mrs. Penton's brother, Mr. Ewell Clark and family..