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Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1943-05-06
The Ration
Calendar
RETAIL MERCHANT GUIDE
FOR HANDLING POINT
RATION STAMPS

Reports show that many mer-
chants are confused about how to
count and how to group the point
rationing stamps they collect
from customers and pass on to
their suppliers. The correct pro-
cedure is very simple. To aid
merchants, the OPA has issued
the following guide
Separate all stamps that ex-
pire on a single date, first by col
or and then by denomination.
Blue Stamp Example: All G,
H. and blue stamps must be
spent by June 10th or deposited
by June goth.
l. Keep those stamps separate
from all others.
2. Place l p0lnt stamps in
separate envelope.
3. Place 2 point stamps in
separate envelope.
4. Place 5 point stamps in d
separate envelope.
5. Place point stamps in a
separate envelope.
Place blue Stamps Of the same
point value only in the same en-
velope. Check color and denom-
nations, and do not place more
than 500 stamps in one envelope.
If small stores put only small
numbers Of stamps in each en-
velope small orders can be car
ed for quickly.
Red Stamps: All E, F. c., H,
and J red stamps must be spent
by June 10 or deposited by June
goth. Bear in mind the fact that
red stamps differ from blue
stamps. Red stamps have week
ly beginning date for use by con
sumers, but a number Of them
have the same expiration date.
Place all that expire at the same
time in envelopes in the same
way as described for blue stamps
above.
Seal each envelope firmly.
This protects your account.
Write on the front Of each en-
velope-
/. The commodity which the
stamp buys. 2. The point demon
ination of the stamps. 8. The
number Of stamps in the envel-
ope. 4. The total point value OF
all stamps in envelope. 5. The
name and address Of the bust
ness.
Example-Red Stamps
Meat
APPOINT stamps
100 stamps
Total-40O points
Ellie Mullins Store
Riverside Drive
Isom, Va.
On back Of each envelope the
signature of the person who
counts the stamps and seals the
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1943-05-06
The Dickinson County
Herald
Fitz S. Beverly, Manager

Entered as second class matter
Aug. IL, 1899, at the post office
at Clintwood, Va, under the Act
OF March 3, 1879.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1943-05-06

Published Every Thursday
In
BEVERLY'S PRINT SHOP
Clintwood, Va.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-05-16

tor the German, probably coated the murderous
lovers lips with thin bat protecting unguent and then
spread the lethal salve upon them The fatal
when transferred 10 the unprotected mouth OF the
pecting bride And probably what the natives call
gada-or which the fatal OF the abaras snake
That a white scientists guess-and maybe It was
the right All the there plenty Of people in
. itch Guiana including who at the tragic we'd
ding cel,bration who take such scientific view Of the
grim goingson They believe that the master OF voodoo
Kill bride without rcsortng to the lethal reptile
In their primitive minds all the powers Of evil on
tap the mysterious who have such tremendous
influence their lives and times. their sudden de-
parture from earthly existence few words Of Jungle
pin stuck in the heart of the clay effsy
a human victim thcy believe take anybody out Of
this world
Adyenturer smith quotes this story for what it's worth
does report that the police of Paramarbo put their
best the bride who dWndlcd and died
Of death" and never able 20 pin the
crime if any the loycI-Tho-Iost or anybody else
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-05-16
indicated his appreciation of this amabe gesture

indicated his appreciation of this amiabe gesture and
his ex-fiancee gentle but firm kiss full her young
mouth Then he bowed and made his way back to the table
piled with food and drink.
Everybody present thought the Jited one swell
guy TO be like that
Then-if the story Nico Smith got from the German
collector of reptiles is TRUE cid Nan Wchcraft arrived at
the wedding feast Nobody HIM come bat the face OF
the bride shockinEy revealed his presence,
To quote Nj Smiths book, The bride began TO droop.
1t though hundred years had passed her in
single moment Before the eyes of her husband and the
guests she shrveed and faded with CHASTITY
rapdity into creature horrible that all shtank away
her Her fun breasts became empty Her checks
became saggng jowls Her tongue dry and parcAod pro-
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-05-16
-HERE are who scott at the suggestion that there

than the eye in the shenangans of tribal
witch doctors and other pact itontrs OF black magic
These hard headed Doubling Tholases don't gag al evil
eyes and hcNeg their fiction but when they
such Things presented facts they question the veracity Of
the who such yarns aud the editors who
gullble enough to print them
Every now and then. however comes 10 light
which the hocuspocus of the jungle medcos take
strange and disturbing character Their antics and the
effect of these primitive gougs-on hard explain
and harder to dismiss with 'pooh-pooh' of white
superiority.
his recently published book "The JunRles of Dutch
Guiana" Nicol Smith lives in San Francisco when he
is not exploring and adventuring, relates Of the
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-05-16

Then she met from the back country of the Dutch
colony big powerful fellow those of
love at first sight.
The girl her husbaud-tobe and told him plainly
that she had changed mind The wedding off. She
going TO marry else. Her heart and her
instinct told that there nothing else for her TO do
To her surprise the Tilted lover took the bad news with
sensible He would always love her he said but above
everything else he wanted her be happy If he had 20
lose her make that possible he would make the sacrifice
and fuss
The girl and her bac-country beau having eaped this
first hurdle easy hustled their wedding day They
and the ceremony went off without
a hitch
In Dutch Guiana, in many another place it is the
all the males who viii TO kiss the bride before
she out her honeymoon To the surprise of the
happy couple the yhoost-out turned among those
who to the party 10 eat drink wish the ne"iyHeIs
well-aud kiss the bride
The girls eyes asked question Of her broad houldered
spouse gracousy smiled his permission. The loser
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-05-16
Watching S|eepWalkers
With The Electric Eue

A KIND OF "A burglar alarm in re-
~ verse IN that It protects
v sleepers from their own sub
conscious periIs rather than from in
t~.lers from without has recently
been invented
The new device for guarding
slccpwalkers employs the clectric-eyc
principle that is a light beam of pro-
lection IS thrown around the somnam-
bulist.
The apparatus which is similar to
The devices used for automatically
opening and closing doors or counting
persons is placed alongside the bed Of
the chronic slecpwalker
NN owe paguof tie device is placed at
'he FOOT ,pf the bed, the other part at
thc head As soon as the person re-
'.4 Tie beam of light connecting the
-t-,u f-ftfts, ~ turned on
. n. r
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-05-16

strangest and most
tragic c as Q $ Of
black m a ic on
or 4. Anyway
the n tiVcs Of
i Il t c h Guiana
think II was black
m a gi C and no
" hite man can
make them believe
otherwise.
The adventurous
Mr., Smith, who ad-
mltS that he used
to look upon such
S [ ofie 5 as old
wives tales which
no hard headed
person should be-
licve, got il second
hand from a Ger
man collector of
poisonous snakes,
one Or. T.. Won
Heidenstamni, who
labeled the upset
ting episode THE
Kiss Of Death a" The
q c r m q n snake
catcher says it hap.
pened. all Doubt
ing Thomases TO
the contrary and
Notwithstanding
The Heroine and
the luckless victim
Of the story was a
p r e t t>y. dusky-
brown native girl
who lived in Para
marble, the seaport
capital of Dutch
Guiana.
She was engaged
to marry a young
Paramariboan, and
the date for the
wedding was set.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-05-16

truled from her
mouth Her eyes
sank into her head
until their sockets
seemed empty Tho
b / o O q rctrcatcl
from her finger
tips Her lips be
came as blue as
one already dead
And, with a sud
den CONFUSION that
rakcd her from
head 20 foot, she
fell q e. a q The
crowd that came 90
rejoice remained
as a funeral pro.
Cession."
Or. Won Holden
stamm, being an
expert on deadly
snakes, thinks he
knows what hap
pened To him, il
was "A simple case
Of poisoning and
had nothing TO do
with tire brand OF
witchcraft that is
hard for science 90
explain.
The rejeCte d
sutton. he told Ex-
plorer Smith, had
gone TO a powerful
tribal witch doctor
for help. Apparent
~ he was able To
pay the high price
the witch doctor
demanded for sup
plying the deadly
conCoction which
would bring the re-
venge his client de
mandcd.
The witch doc
IL
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-05-16

Perils 40 bcset some sleepwalkcrs
One famous case. for example was that
OF a travelling salesman from 81. LOUIS
who registered at "a hotel I'm Clarks-
dale Mississippi Aware Of his sub
conscious meandcrings. he took the pre-
caution before retiring of barricadng
his door with furniture. Eevo,the' es
he climbed out of his second floor bed
room window ard descended a 2O-toot
brick wall without suffering injuries.
Clad in pailmas. the salesman re-
moved the window screen, made Lis
precarious descent. walked 70 the rear
of the building passed through the
hotel lobby. and returned TO the door
of his room M before awakening
This odd story Of somnamhulism is
voECtel fos by tho Clarksaalc' police
who had to pet a ladder and enter The
room though the window in order to
tDmoya the furniture barricadc.
he new electmc-eye devicc'is that. II the
so equipped ne would have meyer got
from bed before the alarm went off.
t.aIiyprc a., t..Yt.y- fI1t7os -, ,rt n that tn4,t
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-05-16

= T-' 7TF' T'iTk0T Zoos 10 Sop 0UI u
his bed during the night he viii break the light
which Ni automatically set of alarm and awaken other
members OF the household
Iuths way, Just as similar device acting the Capac
ity of burglar alarm thwarts The uefarous
po"'r the sorHauibulst is saved from the pitfalls
slccpWalkng.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-05-16

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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-05-16
The Girl
WhoKeepsAPet
Crocodile

HATIVES OF the village Of Cupaz, the famed Chu
~ queuaJue River Eastern Panama, recently were
\given the scare OF their lives by the tenyearolc
Evening star., 1943-07-11

1910. 1t was obscessed with confidence
in its invulnerability.
The clash took place about eight miles
east of Ell Guettar. Three times the
German tanks came forward. Three
times they were stopped by 1st Divi-
ion infantry alone-men in fox holes
with no air support but with straflng
stukas blackening the skies above them.
1t was day Of pure hell. But for the
first time in history the panzers were
stopped cold.
The countryside in which this action
took place is best pictured In the mind
by looking at Dore's illustrations of
Dante's Inferno. 1t was a terrain Of
black, rocky sand snd sharp-cragged,
volcanic hills with the level stretches
cut through by deep wadis. There was
not tree, not blade of grass as far
as the eye could see. This was the
cruelist face Of North, Africa.
The whole landscape was other worldly,
The guns might have been blazing amid
the mountains Of the moon.
They Turned the Tide.
Trousers and shoes were torn to shreds
as the 1st Division soldiers scrambled
over the sharp rocks. They formed an
important part Of the supplies which
had to be sent in. There was absolutely
Evening star., 1943-07-11

as 1t could be solved, by organizing pack
trains Of Arabs and Italian prisoners to
bring in supplies on their backs.
The Crucial Break.
Even after the panzers withdrew de-
feated there was no rest for the 1st
Division. The crucial point in the North
African war had arrived, the break so
long awaited, and it was essential to
keep the Germans on the run without
time for rest or reorganization. The
division was rushed 800 miles to the
north into positions east of Beja, the
picturesque land of wheat-fllled valleys,
towering hills and poppy fields where
were staged the final battles in North
Africa. The Germans were dug in on
the hills. Their positions in the rocks
were practically immune to artillery and
only direct hits by bombs dropped from
planes were Of much value.
1t was case of taking hill after hill
by infantry attacking with bayonets.
Day after day the attacks went on
through the crucial rainy days of April
as the Tunisian countryside broke out
In flush of red and yellow blossoms.
The blood of the 1st Division mingled
with the red poppies on the hillsides.
Most of the hills were nameless, noted
on the French maps only by numbers.
Throughout the month these became
cabalistic numbers in American history
Hill SIS, Hill $50, Hill 523, Jebel Anz
and a score more. These rocky hills
sharp, bare crags with olive groves on
their sides and hidden Arab villages
amidst the rocks-commanded with rains
Of death the wide, green valleys through
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were IN quiet sectors, some saw action
almost daily. But the division, as a.whole,
was stuck In the mud and the cold, some
times with such an inadequacy OF sup
plies as to cause intense physical hard
ship.
1t was gotten under a unified COM
n1and again just in time to be thrown
into th9 toughest sort of action after
the Kasserine Pass disaster late in
February which threatened to cost the
Allies all they occupied in Tunisia and
probably half of Algeria. The war might
we'll have been prolonged for months.
At Kasserine Pass.
After a forced march of 120 miles
through mud and rain the division
counterattacked at Kasserine Pass on
Washington's birthday in battle which
may prove to have been one of the
most crucial of the war.
The objective now was to seize Gafsa
and hold it at all costs This involved
moving $4,000 men over As miles of road
Evening star., 1943-07-11

at Aduwa in 1896 Thereupon Italians
rebelled against colonizing, and migra-
ton to the Americas and Africa became
the solution to the problem of living
room on the overcrowded Italian boot.
Late in 1911 Italian troops occupied
Libia's coastal towns in rapid succession
and the government proclaimed annexa-
ton of the whole territory, six times the
size Of the italian boot. The following
year Italy made another grab from the
Turks in the shadow Of Turkey by oc-
cupying the Dodecanese islands. Threat
ened by Balkin War, Turkey had no
choice but to keep peace with Italy.
League of Nations Fails.
The third period of italian colonial
expansion may be dated from late 1884,
when Italian troops clashed with Ethio-
plans at Walwal, near the Ethiopia
Somaliland border. In May, 1896, Adds
Ababa was occupied and Ethiopia was
declared annexed to the Kingdom Of
Italy, thus adding territory three times
italian Somaliland Ethiopia was joined
to form italian East Africa.
There followed the rapid and success
full invasion of Albania on Good Friday
of 1899. This added to Italian de-
tendencies II 900 square miles and 1,000.-
600 population, bringing the total to its
peak of 1,350,000 square miles and a.
200, 900 population-eleven times the area
and one-third the population Of Italy
at home. With the recent loss of the
last of the African holdings, today Italy
overseas is shrunken to the $4,000 square
miles of Albania and the Dodecanese
Islands.
Evening star., 1943-07-11

Maj. Gen. Terry Allen, CON-
n1ander of the 1st DiUision in
North Africa.
and at dawn struck at El Guettar In an
operation which may well become a
military classic.
The dawn attack is perhaps the divis-
ions favorite tactical move. They start
to move in just before the first saffron
streaks of light and by the time the sun
Is over the horizon the full fury of battle
Is under way. 1t catches the enemy
when their spirits are lowest, even if the
attack is not complete surprise. The
men come in with war whoops like In
dians. This fight not only was COM
pletely successful in taking the town but
resulted in the elimination as a fighting
force of the picturesque Italian "Bersag-
lieri," noted for the plumes in their hats.
Many were killed. Before noon 300
prisoners had been taken.
The Divisions Biggest Day.
March % was the divisions single
biggest day in North Africa. Ell Guettar
was key point in the whole campaign.
Against it was hurled the full fury of the
celebrated 10th Panzer Division with
its 100 blazing tanks. 1t had never been
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1taly's Giant Colonial
Empire Fast Vanishing
BY the National Geographic Society.

Colonial empire for Italy came late,
left early. In 1870 the nine-year-old
kingdom was the boot" and islands in
the Mediterranean west of it. BY 1910
the Italian flag flew over a total area
greater than twelve Italian boots, says
National Geographic Society bulletin.
Today the land overseas still within
Italy's sphere would fit into the foot Of
the boot. 1t has shrunk from an area
nearly half as large as the United States
to an area little larger than Maryland.
Starting from scratch after the British,
French and other colonizing powers had
staked down land nearly all around the
globe, italy found her opportunity linn
tied. Tunis, across the Mediterranean
narrows, lured Italian attention, but
France liked it too. BY its Treaty of
Bardo with the Bey Of Tunis, French
protectorate was established in 1881.
After that three colony absorbing spurts
brought Italy to fifth rank among land
lord powers.
Ethiopia Halted Spurt.
Assab and Massaua, on the Red Sea
coast more than 2,40O miles from Rome,
were the cornerstones OF Italian colonial
empire. They were occupied in 1885. BY
purchase and treaty, land around them
was added to form the colony of Eritrea.
Part of Somaliland became Italian four
years later and protectorate established
over Ethiopia. Ethiopia, rejecting the
protectorate, successfully fought it out
Evening star., 1943-07-11

each calling for different technique.
They Will Live in History.
Today, the men of the division, gath
cred from all over the United States and
with fair sprinkling of regular Army
soldiers among them, are hard, tough
lot of veterans with notably clannish
spirit and growing appreciation of the
significance of the part they have played
in history. 1t hardly could be otherwise
after what they have gone through.
They may have started the war with
something Of an inferiority complex.
The record of the 1st Division in
France in 1sl7-18 also was epic and the
new men felt the responsibility of hold
ing up that record. Fate decreed that
they should eclipse it.
The old 1st Division fought with its
back to civilization, with modern cities
only few hours distant behind it, with
good railroads and highways pouring in
supplies from open ports. Behind the
division in this war was desolation and
desert. Before them was desolation and
desert. There was nobody to relieve
them after they had taken a pounding,
when the men were approaching the ul-
innate in WEAKNESS and hope of quick
victory was low in their hearts.
After Oran.
The epic of the 1st Division starts
from the moment it left the United
States early last August. The division
got safely across the Atlantic and went
into the Spartan training which stood it
in such good stead in the North African
campaign. Late in october it set sail
from England to carry out the big am
phibian operation of the Oran landing.
After Oran it had bad time for
while. 1t was scattered in relatively
small units from the frontier of Spanish
Morocco across good part of Algeria
and Tunisia. These scattered fragments
of division were under different COM
mands. Some of them were placed under
orders of the French whom they so
lately had been fighting.
Whatever the justification for this may
have been it came near breaking the
spirit of division trained to fight as an
organic whole and with fine cement of
unity in the comradship which had been
built up among the men. Some units
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brig. Gen. IHeOQOe ROOSe-
Delt, Who Dds a lieutenant
colonel of the 1st DiUisioa in
the last Udr.
get within striking distance, but when
the enemy sees the sun flashing against
the silvery blades aimed at their chests
usually all the fight goes out Of them.
BY this time the Germans had good
reason to know and fear the 1st Division.
They were making their last stand in
Tunisia. Crack troops were withdrawn
from the eastern front and sent to
Africa-the highly disciplined Bavarian
Barenthins, the picked troops Of the
Herman Goering regiment.
The daily battles through the Tunisian
hills and valleys were spectacular in the
extreme. In places the German defend
ers were practically annihilated. Steep
hillsides were strewn with hundreds of
dead. At one time nearly 100 burial
squads were sent out into the hills to
dispose of the slain. The job was too
big for them.
Finally bulldozer was dispatched to
make common grave for the men Who
had fallen in their last ditch fight in
front of the Mediterranean.
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which 1t was necessary for the Ameri-
cans to advance toward Bizerte and the
sea.
Bayonet Attack.
It was mostly case of straight bay
onet attack. Once more was demon
strated to the satisfaction of the Ameri-
cans that the weapon of which the Ger
man is most afraid is the bayonet He
doesn't understand bayonet tactics. Cold
steel has far greater terrors for him
than bullets. This had been demon
strated before at Ell Guettar. The 1st