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Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1940-10-31
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Roosevelt. So did the paradoxicaHy
named Springfield Republican. Anti
Tammany LaGuardia and the pro-
Tammany tigers worked for Roose-
welt in N. Y, side by each. It was
all very peculiar.
The earl of AthIone and his wife,
Princess Alice, visited Mr.. Roose-
welt at Hyde Park. They conferred
on aid for England, informally. +"
The earl is dowager Queen Mary's
brother, and an ardent Buchmanite
convert. He is a nice old military
man, and his wife is a nice old fe-
male ditto.
Ralph Hope, British flying officer,
was a nephew Of Neville Chamber
lain. He was killed in an aerial &C.
ton over England. Three weeks
earlier he had been shot down, but
escaped safely. The loss was re-
ported as a heavy personal loss to
the man of Munich.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1940-10-31

With america re-arning to the full,
the aUon.an's touch is used at the Frank.
ford arsenal, Philadelphia, Pa, to feed
these .50-caIibre cartridge cases into
the machine that tapers them. These
cartridges are used in anti-tank guns.
young men that registered, which
topped the forecasts. In reference
to these young men, War Secretary
Stimson declared: "Only God and
Hitler know what will happen to
the United States" The army, it
was stated, plans to train 100000
annually for the next five years,
which is the life-length of the Burke
Wadsworth CONSUMPTION bill recent
ly passed by congress. The B-W
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1940-10-31

Old Marshal Petain was warned
by his fellow politico, Marcel Deaf.
against any attempt to restore the
monarchy in la France. The So
called count Of Paris, Henry vi, is
the candidate, a funny looking little
creature. Petain himself would
make a better king, if any. The
duke of Guise, father of the present
pretender, died in Morocco last
August. So much for him.
AL Smith, Hiram Johnson of Cali
fornia, ex-Candidate John Davis,
and Hitler were variously reported
as working for Willkie. So were for
mer members of Woodrow Wilson's
cabinet, former members of the So
cialist party, the isolationists, and
William Allen Whites committee for
intervention. The New York Daily
News and the st. Louis Post-Dis-
patch, both strongly isolation-rnind-
ed, came out-none the less-for
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1940-10-31
POLITICS.:
Wind Up

AS the politicians all over the ma
ton were busy winding up their
blasts Of campaign oratory, Ameri-
can voters were preparing to go to
the polls to cast what was expected
to be the largest ballot in the ma
tons history. Major candidates
were completing their pleas to the
electorate and latest public opinion
polls indicated a close presidential
race.
On Mr.. r.
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt did
not try to predict the result of the
1910 campaign, which was coming
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1940-10-31

In recognition of his "contributions
at aeronauticaL development and the
production OF many types of aircraft
of high performance" Glenn L. Mar
tin (above), president OF the aircraft
company that bears his name, has been
awarded the Daniel Cuggenheim medal
for 1910. Mr.. Martin, sho,Un in his
Baltimore office ,Uith model of the
first airplane he ever built and in
tohich he learned in 1909, is currently
soorking on too ne,O bombing planes,
said to be the largest aircraft of their
kind in the tUorLd.
Released by Western Newspaper Union.)
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1940-10-31
THE WAR:
aerial

There were rumors and counter
rumors about the total evacuation Of
London, in the face Of Goering's ae-
rial bombardment. Old people over
IS, school children, and active moth
ers were advised to leave as soon as
possible, taking with them all sick
or invalided souls.
About half a million children
more than SO per cent of the school
population-Were out of town, and
500 expectant mothers were depart
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1940-10-31
LEOPOLD:
The Belgic

King Leopold Of Belgium was &C.
cused last June of grave military
treachery in the Flanders campaign.
They said he let the British and
French troops down by making that
initial separate peace. France re-
voked his legion of honor decoration,
and the Leopoldine bust was re-
moved from the Belgium pavilion at
the New York Worlds fair. Then,
months later, people began to reno
vate their opinions about Leopold of
the Belgians. The Petain govern
ment of France restored his legion
Of honor. The marble Leopoldine
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1940-10-31
The BdLks

When it came to the Balkans,
there was increased tension. Ru-
mania was further occupied by the
German invaders. Bulgaria headed
straight for the Axis orbit, while
British citizens began to decamp
from both Bucharest and Sofia.
Jugoslavia, squeezed between Italy,
Germany, Hungary, Bulgaria, and
Italian Albania, signed a new trade
and political pact with Hitler, which
tied up the Jugos1avs in the Ger
man continental system, at least for
the time being. Greece was threat
ened by the Bulgarians and Italians,
and was backed up by Russia and
Turkey. Greece and Turkey, along
with Egypt and Portugal, were still
nominal British allies. The Soviets
were moving increas ing1y to the anti
Hitler viewpoint, for Germanized
Balkans did not appeal to the Krem-
lin at Moscow. The actual military
value of the Red army was under
constant discussion. Had it found it.
self, in the last month of the Finnish
war? Was the Red aviation any
good? We're there any suitable Red
generals left alive after Stalin's
purges? These were the moot ques-
tons, and even the left-eye monocles
Of the Prussian general staff were
in some doubt about Marshal Voro-
shilov's warbids and warboys.
Reported demands upon Greece
by the Axis powers included: Cd
immediate severance of economic
relations with the British, (2) cession
of territory to Italy and Bulgaria,
CD use of Greek air bases by the
Axis, az abdication of King George
of Greece, 90 grant of a right of
way to Italy for construction Of a
major military road.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1940-10-31
NATIONALS:
Socialism,

Certain gloomy political scientists
were maintaining that the blight of
national socialism was spreading
round the world to all the major
countries: Germany, Italy, England,
France, japan, America, etc. In
each country, they declared, it
varied it's pattern, but the basic es-
sentials were always there.
Sad
They said that national socialism
now combined the aggressive mill
tarism Of the POLITICAL right with
the aggressive socialism of the po-
litical left. This united left and
right, and made for some sort of
totalitarian state. The Churchill
government, for example, unites
radical labor (under Ernest Bevin)
with the military mentality of
Churchill himself. Chamberlain,
they claimed, represented the last
stand of Victorian middle-class cap
italism. The Vargas dictatorship in
Brazil, the Franco rule in Spain, and
the Konoye regime in Japan-mili-
tarized and anti-capitalist-were adj
ditional samples. In France, the
generals and adnirals were domi-
nant at Vichy-Petain, Weygand,
Darlan, etc.-and "plutocracy" was
severely condemned by this Gallo
national socialists, who thirsted for
the blood of Rothschilds and So
called profteers.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1940-10-31
DOUBT:
Espar1a

When it came to Spain, Generals
simo Franco, was still in much doubt,
Gibraltar or no Gibraltar. Heinrich
Himmler went down to see Franco.
Himmler is the head of the dread
Nazi Gestapo, and his agents were
very useful to Franco in the long
Spanish civil war. Himmler got a
big hand in the peninsular, except
for the ex-loyalists still left alive,
who hated this too-able German
fanatic.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1940-10-31
-WeeIxly
Election Day Holds Spogh Tension Balkans Increases
by Roger Shaw.

bill provided that an annual 900, 900
was to be the maximum number
called up per year.
Western
One southwestern Indian was
found who claimed to be a member
of the German Bund, and didn't
want to register. He said he was
waiting for Hitler to come and
''free" him from the white man, the
White House, and the great white
father. Some people said that this
aborigine was red in more ways
than one.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1940-10-31

bust was restored to the World fair
exhibit. Some 700 people were
specially invited to the bustial resto-
ration. The pavilion had been open
only two weeks when Leo made his
peace with the Hitlerians. The
weary months since that time have
meant seclusion-for the monarch
in guarded Belgian chateau, where
he rules vaguely and in name only.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1940-10-31
A. C.. L. IT,:
Reforms

The American Civil Liberties I'M
ion used to be called radical. 1t de-
Tended Communists, Nazis, Negroes,
trade unions and other varied
causes, which was certainly an
American way Of doing things, but
it's leaders were sometimes accused
of leftist tendencies.
Eleven new members were added
to the national committee of the A.
c. L. U. They were certainly Of an
orthodox, and even conservative,
type. The new members included
Mr.. Roosevelt's headmaster of aris-
tocratic Groton school, Dr. Endicott
Peabody. Also, interventionistic
Robert Sherwood, the famous play
wright. Van Wyck Brooks, the blue
blooded author and critic, was an
other, and so was Pearl Buck, the
Chinese" novelist. Dean Christian
Gauss Of conservative Princeton uni
versity was on the list, and DR..
Frank Kingdom, director of the citi-
zenship educational service. Also,
William Draper Lewis of Philadel-
phia, director of the American law
institute, William Allan Nelson,
president emeritus of Smith college
for women, Bishop Bromley Oman
of the Methodist church in Boston,
and Professor Sophonisba Breckin-
ridge of the University of Chicago.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1940-10-31
NAZIS:
Explanation

The three 'nastiest'' papers in
Germany are DR.. Goebbels' Angriff
in Berlin, the anti-semitic Stuermer
of Julius Streicher in Nuremberg,
and the official organ of the black
uniformed Hitler guards: the
Schwartz Korps. The Schwartz
Korps gave the following scientific
explanation of the heroic defense of
London:
'London's ability to carry on I'M
der a continuous hail of bombs,
amid seething wreckage and rag
ing flames, without roof over the
heads Of people, without sleep and
with the slenderest food supplies, is
not due to British ability to take it.
or proverbial toughness.
Rather, this England approaches
death with sensual pleasure and
smacks its lips over every phase and
bears every humiliation and every
cynicism if only it can hope that
in dying it may also drag its enemy
into the abyss. The psycopath knows
that in such cases pleasure in de-
struction parallels pleasure in self
destruction.
'Thus is solved the puzzle of Brit
ish toughness and endurance"
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1940-10-31

EDITORS NOTE-When opinions
are expressed in these columns. they
are those of the news analyst, and not
necessarily of this newspaper.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1940-10-31
SNITE:
Iron Lunged

About the bravest young man in
America is Fred Snite Jr. of Chi
cago. He has lived for four years
in an iron lung, and has Travelled in
it to distant places. He has mar
ried happily and now has an heir.
Snite wanted to register for the
draft, with his customary pluck and
grit.
They appointed Snite senior as
special registrar, and the father
registered the son. Snite junior an
swered all the usual questions like
any other draftee When his ador-
ing father asked him for 'other OBJ
vious physical characteristics, Fred
answered 'infantile paralysis, I'M
able to walk" This action made
Snite Jr. more popular than ever.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1940-10-31

Here is admiral Sir Harry M. Har.
iUood, vho commanded the British
forces off the coast OF South america
tUhen the German battLeship Graf Spec
aUas trapped, and no1U is named Lord
Commissioner of the British Admiralty
and Assistant Chief of the naval staff.
ing weekly for parts unknown. 1t
was not a cheerful picture. The
British government still refused to
leave, although an emergency parli-
readiness, at Cheltenhan, in the ex-
IRENE west of England. The board
of trade already had announced the
removal of it's business offices rec
ords to the Grand hotel, in an I'M
pronounceable spot in central Wales.
The spot was, actually, Llandudno.
The British board of trade CORE
spends to the U. S. Chamber of Com
merce.
Reports from London, Berlin and
Rome indicated that the British air
force had launched a major air Of
fensive against the axis powers in
reply to the. constant bonbings of
London by the Nazis.
While the Raj had by no means
been idle during the preceding
weeks, this current drive seemed to
take on more force than heretofore.
Invasion ports on the French side
of the English channel were severe
1y bombed and shipyards at Bremen
were reported blasted. Industrial
cities of northern Italy came in for
their share of the beating, accord
ing to the dispatches from British
headquarters.
Disease
The worst news of all was this:
Spinal meningitis had broken out.
This was due to the fact that nearly
100000 people had been sleeping in
unsanitary subWays, crowded into
unhygienic surroundings. Nerves
were wearing out, and SO was physi-
cal resistance, with an average of
only four hours sleep per night. The
"cerebro-spinal fever" was blamed
on a nose and throat germ, pre-
surnably air-borne. There was fur
Their danger of typhoid, influenza,
higher insanity rate, and other at
tendant ills. 1t will be remembered
that epidemic disease is one of the
four grim horses of the apocalypse,
and perhaps the worst Of the grisly
team.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1940-10-31

to a peak. She said she simply
didn't know, and implied she could
take it or leave it.
Said Mrs. Roosevelt, who Is popu-
lar even with the foes Of her hus-
band: GAS far as the polls go, they
mean very little to me. They are
so often too much one way, or the
other. When you've been the wife Of
a politician long enough, you learn
not to express anything one way or
the other, but just go along and see
what happens :"
Duell0
Meanwhile, Clare Boothe and Dor
othy Thompson disagreed on the
election. Miss Boothe wrote 'The
Women" and other things. She stood
firm for Willkie. Miss Thompson,
N. Y. Herald Tribune or no N. Y.
Herald Tribune, pumped for Roose-
welt. Miss Boothe razzed Miss
Thompson, and the Herald Tribune
held up Miss Thompson's stuff.
There was quite a TODD about it
all, with Miss Boothe apparently
worsting Miss Thompson in this
blitzkrieg of hairpins and cat-calls.
DEFENSE:
Droftees
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-07
U. S. GOVERNMENT
ISSUES ADVANCE
Low Yield Corporates Also
Move Forward; Specula-
tive Bonds Slump

NEW YORK, Nov. 6-G-U. S.
governments and the general run
of low yield corporate issues NOV
ed forward today as bonds OF spe-
culative rating sold off, in some
cases rather sharply.
The decline in the second grade
division was in response to the
downward drift in. stocks which to
Wall Street sources represented
the share markets appraisal Of
the Tuesday election results.
Some federal issues were more
active than for weeks before the
election. On substantial volume
the treasury 2 3-4s, 1%96O-1965, 4
l8-32ds of a point, closing at the
days top of 108.2 20. There were
several other gains ranging from
1-8 to IA of a point and a scat
ering of minor losses.
Popular trading issues in the
corporate group, notably rails and
utilities, opened at generally low
er prices, rallied and sold off
again in the last half of the ses-
sion. Many closed l to around 8
down but turnover was
Included in the list down a point
or more were Commonwealth
Edison Convertible 3 lbs of SO at
118 "a, Erie General Lien As at
IS 1-8, Brooklyn Union Gas SIS at
ITO IL, Delaware & Hudson Re
funding As at 81 1-8, Nickel Plate
S lbs at 70, and United Drug IS at
"a 1-2.
Some spots in the fore'-7 sec.
tor indicated an increased turn
over but traders said the price
trends appeared to be too mixed
to have any significance in connec-
ton with the election.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-07
CHICAGO LIVESTOCK

CHICAGO, Nov. 6.-t1t Although.
receipts were moderate and the
dressed pork market higher, hog
values unexpectedly turne, 10 to
IS cents lower today , depressing
the top of $6.40. Fed steers meet
ing the previous high :: STAT
Lambs held steady with yester-
days best prices.
Hog receipts totaled y, 1000 head,
but 5000 of these were billed d.
rect to packers. Best wholesale
pork loins advanced 81 to SIS per
hundredwc:gh CHI.
GU. S. Dept. Agr.)Salable hogs
$4,000; total 21,000; general trade
moderately active, mostly 10 to Is
lower than Tuesdays average; top
$40, bulk good and choice 23O to
800 ID. butchers go to IS; most
200 to :22o lb. average 6.1O to 30;
40 to 1870 lbs, largely 600 to 20;
good 800 to 400 ID. packing sows
$50 to 6.15; heavier weights $40
to IS; shippers took 500; holdovers
!, 1000.
Salable cattle $500; calves 1000;
fed steers and yearlings strong to
Is higher; all grades shared adj
vance, but strictly good and choice
offe- ings showed most upturn;
strictly good and choice steers pre-
dominated in crop; top 14.75 paid
for three loads of prime LIS lib.
averages; next highest rice 1865;
several loads 14.25 to "a with 1917
ID. yeer;ings 14.25; sprinkling com
mon steers 700 to so; about SO
head 800 ID. averages 7.25; little
on steer crop under 90. how
ever; fed hejfers firm; load lot top
1925; part load 1880; mixed steer
and heifer yearlings 1880; COWS
and bulls firm; weighty sausage
offering TBS; vealer strong at
1000 to 11.50; few country buyers
here and stock cattle very slow.
Salable sheep 5000; total 5000;
steady wiz Tuesdays hest time;
best good to choice natives and
fed western lambs $50 to rs; top
9.75; two loads good ,arly shorn
fed lambs 800 to 900; five decks
good tc choice 80 to g lbs. shorn
feds 8.75; deck less desirabl, 8.25;
gooo to choice medium pelt fed
yearlings 800; closely shorn $50;
slautlter ewes 400 to 40. 3
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-07
252nd Band To Take
Trip To Fl. Screuen

FORT MCULTR1E, S. c., Nov. 6.
The 252nd Coast Artillery band OF
Wilmington will leave Fort Moul-
trie today for Fort Screven, Ca.
where it will be stationed until Sun
day, returning here to participate
in Armistice Day celebration.
The band will leave shortly after
a review for Brigadier General Rich
ard F. Cox, who at an early date
will leave the post here for the
a~nti-aircraft training station near
Hinesville, Ga.
Authorities at Fort Screven have
asked that the 252nd regimental
band play for the National Guards
men stationed there, as they have
no post band. The 252nd vas pre-
viously established as the Fort Moul-
trie post band. The dance orches-
ira, composed of musicians from
the regular band. will play at a
dance for the soldiers at Fort Sore
ven.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-07
CASH GRAIN

CHICAGO, Nov. CLIP Cash
wheat No. 3 red 80. Corn new, No..
2 mixed 81 "a; No. l yellow 65;
No. 2, So IL to So IL; No. 3 white
IS IA; sample grade SO IL to SIS
IL; old, No. l yellow &c IL; No.
| white SO.
Late No. l white 81 IA; sample
grade, 81 IA to "a; No. 1 white
heavy 81 to 81 IA; No. 2, 81 IA;
No 3, SO IL.
Barley mailing so to 81.
Oats No. l white 81 IA; sample
grade, 81 IA to "a; No. l white
heavy 81 to 81 IA; No. 2, 81 IA;
Nc. 3, SO IL.
Barley mailing so to "a nominal;
feed SO to 48 mailing tough 60 to
So; No. 2 mailing 60.
Soybeans No. l yellow SO IA to
90 IA; No. 3, 88 "a to 90; No. 4
81 IA.
Field seed per hundredweight
nominal: timothy seed 1865; alsike
900 to H. 10; fancy red top $50 to
500; red clover 800 to 1000; sweet
clover $50 to 400. /
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-07
RECEIPTS
ON INCREASE HERE
Rise OF IA Per Cent For First
10 Months Over Same
Period Last Year

Postal receipts for the 10 month
period of 1910 ending October 81
show an increase Of approximately
IA per cent when compared with the
same period of 1889, while receipts
for October were about three per
cent ahead of the record for the
corresponding month of the previous
year, the postmaster reported Tues
day.
Postal receipts for the 10 month
period ending October 81 this year
totaled $174,216.7O, an increase of
S11,347.07, or about IA per cent, as
compared with the record of 1852.
S69.63 for the same period in 1889.
October receipts this year amount
ed to $~18.4S3.08 and indicated a gain
of $551.5S or about three per cent
when compared with the record of
$17.931.52 for the same month in
1889, the postmaster said.
Postal receipts for the 10 month
period of 1910 were listed as follows:
first quarter, January, February, and
March, $52,924.05; second quarter,
April, May, and June, $%51,145O7:
third quarter, July, August and Sep.
TENDER, s51, 1854. so; and October, SIS.
483.O8.
Record of receipts for the CORES
ponding period of 1899 follows: first
quarter, January, February and
March, ~$4S.7S7.So; second quarter.
April, May and June, $4S 1861;
third quarter, July, August and Sep
TENDER, $47,663.64; and October, ST.
931.5
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-07
CHICAGO GRAIN

CHICAGO Nov. 6.-R-Grain
futures prices went into a tailspin
after the first hour, wheat declin-
ing as much as 2 cents a bushel
under Mondays closing levels to-
day. Final quotations were frac-
tionally higher than the days lows.
Soybeans displayed independent
strength. After advancing 2 cents
into new high ground for the sea-
son with both December and May
contracts at 90 1-2 cents. final quo
tations were reduced by halt. Clos
ing prices, however, were 6 IA TO
6 l. 2cents higher than a week
ago and % cents above the lows
for the saason, established last
August.
Wheat futures closed 1 IA to l
34 cents under Mondays final
prices, December "a 1-8 to "a,
May 83 to 81 7-8; corn was Ia to
"a lower, December go, May 60
34 to 7-8; oats were unchanged to
g." off; rye So to 3-4 lower; soy
beans l cent up; and lard 5 to 10
cents lower.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-07
NEW YORK G

NEW YORK, Nov. 6.-R-High-
er raw sugar prices stimulated de-
mand for domestic futures today
and quotations closed generally 2
points higher. Sales totaled 16, 700
tons.
World futures held sympathetic
cally steady, ending unchanged to
l IL points ahead on sales of 1000
tons; Dec. rs bid, March .82 bid.
Spot raws cleared at 200 cents a
pound, up 3 points. Sales totaled
IL, 100 tons of Philippines and Puer.
to Ricans.
Refined continued at 4.35 to AS
cents a pound locally. Liquid re-
fined was offered for delivery into
June, 1871, at 40, also quoted for
the first quarter.
Mo q ror1a fo11orv,e.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-07
Wall Street. Is Disappointed
Over Sweeping F. R. Victory

ton bonds went down along with
stocks.
A furry of activity developed in
foreign bonds, but the trends were
mixed, some of the German and
Japanese issues declining, while
Italian loans advanced.
AS some leading Wall streeters
saw it, the post election outlook
was for:
l.-Increasing defense activity,
with expenditures for arms step.
ping up rapidly in coming months.
2.-Drastic combing OF the tax
structure next year in quest of the
most effective methods of boosting
levies to yield billions of revenue
for defense,
3-Increased aid to Britain ano
a rigidly unyielding attitude to
ward aggressor nations.
The slump in stocks did not
come until after a short lived fur
ry of buying, concentrated or
steels and aircrafts, early in he
session. Il