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Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1943-09-02

At their rocky perch on the lonely
coast of Newfoundland, two Cana
dian soldiers watch for signs of the
enemy. This is one of Canada's adj
vance posts in her war against the
German submarine.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1943-09-02

Britais
expected be subject
immediate invasion
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1943-09-02

100 phnc psfedmghem n
wrpohem Wounded prisoners in
Hospital by they
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Evening star., 1943-08-07
ing craft on the Messina beaches

ing craft on the Messina beaches
last night.
Two enemy aircraft were destroyed
during the day,
1t was announced that photo
graphs of bomb damage around
Naples from the Flying Fortress raid
August 4 showed the power station
further damaged, part of the north
quay destroyed, the liner lombard
burned out and several merchant
vessels badly damaged.
The communique reported con-
f1rmation that Allied bombings on
Thursday sank 81 barges and 4
other small vessels not previously
reported.
The pattern of air war against the
enemy in the northeastern corner of
Sicily followed closely those of the
attacks which reduced Pantelleria
to submission and disintegrated
Field Marshal Gen. Jurgen Won Ar
MINIS resistance in Tunisia.
Every rowboat af1oat in the
2-mile-wide Messina Strait or
hauled ashore was liable to be raked
with machine-gun fire or blasted by
bombs which plummeted from the
sky day and night.
Many scores of small craft we're
destroyed by the concentrated air
offensive which was unleashed
Thursday.
Evening star., 1943-08-07
West Virginia Flood
Toll Rises 10 10 Dead
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SUTTON. w. Va. Aug. THE
recovery of two additional bodies
today raised the death toll of Gen.
tral West Virginia's worst summer
food in history to 10, with 4 persons
still missing.
Mrs. Tom Daugherty, about so, one
Of two guests at the home of Mrs.
LYDIA Queen at Heaters when the
dwelling was swept away, and C. B.
Simons, about Ct, of Copen, were
added to the list of known dead
Rehabilitation work continued in
the four-county area which was in
undated Wednesday night. J. B.
Baker State Health Department
sanitarian, said that at least two
thirds of the wells in Braxton,
Ritchie, Gilmer and Calhoun Coun-
ties had escaped infection. Public
clinics for immunization against
typhoid had been set up he said.
but no compulsory order had been
issued for such treatment.
Evening star., 1943-08-07
OPA to Issue
| New Rules on
Liquor Prices
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The Office of Price Administration
will issue over the week end a new
regulation governing retail liquor
prices, it was learned today. The
regulation is expected to result in
some reductions from present prices.
In the meantime, the War Pro-
duction Board said limited diversion
of alcohol production to beverage
uses is definitely under considera-
ton"
All alcohol production, both in
dustrial and beverage, was turned
into war chemistry channels last
November Since then warehouse
supplies of beverage alcohol have
been depleted, and the beverage dis
tilling industry has requested that
a percentage of total production be
diverted to replenish beverage stocks.
Final decision on the possible di-
version of distillery products to bev-
erage uses must come from Fred M.
Vinson, director of the ONCE of Eco
nomic Sterilization, according to
WPB.
Evening star., 1943-08-07

to influence the entire political
thought of the German people.
in sharp contrast to the wave Of
Jltters enveloping Berlin was the
carefree attitude of Londoners who
today are singing their way along
with new tune, I'm going to get
lit up when the lights 90 I'm in
London" The government promised
modiflcations in the blackout as
conditions may warrant.
Both Goebbels end Goering were
reported in Hamburg today. Before
he left Berlin Goebbels made a final
attempt to allay the fears of the
Berliners with assurances that Ber-
lin antiaircraft defenses have been
strengthened and that the Reich
high command is preparing massive
counter air blows against Britain.
His statements appeared unexrect-
ealy in signed article in the Voel-
kischer Boebachter, Swedish CORE
spondents in the German capital
said. Goebbels gave no indications
when the counter air offensive would
be launched, but promised that Ger
man military experts would utilize a
new secret weapon on which they are
now working.
Evening star., 1943-08-07
Berlin
Continued From First Page J

ish correspondents in Berlin that
momentous developments were
shaping inside Germany
Reuters, the British news service
quoted arrivals in Zurich from Ber-
lin as saying that the capitals au-
thorities were at their wits end to
control mass stampede from the
city" Many arrests have been made
among refugees from bomb battered
Hamburg, Reuters said, to prevent
their spreading fantastic stories of
casualties in that north port city.
Berliners' fears that their city will
be singled out for devastation when
autumn nights make longer Allied
raids possible were reported also
heightened.
Goebbels has admitted a partial
evacuation of Berlin. but he said the
list was restricted to noneSsential
residents.
Reuters also quoted reports heard
in Istanbul that the Germans were
preparing to proclaim Berlin an
open city and remove the ministries
and other services to Dresden, Leip-
zig, Munich and Prague.
Peace Strikes Reported.
The Zurich Die WeltWoche said
strikers demanding peace had piled
new troubles en- Germany's already
oVertaxed war industries, that work
erS in some factories in Austria had
refused to work and the action had
been followed in Stuttgart and Ber-
lin factories. Promises of increased
rations and the presence of Nazi
Elite Guard members in the fac
tories failed to deter them, the news
paper said.
The collapse of Mussolini and his
Fascist regime has struck German
cal Stalingrad," whose final effects
on the Axis may be much more i'm
portant than has vet been indicated,
Die WeltWoche said
No other single event of the war has
resulted in a comparable blow to
the morale of the German people
except the disastrous defeat at Stall
ingrad, the newspaper said, and
this view was reflected in reports
from other neutral countries bor
dering the Reich.
Dispatches to Swiss newspapers
told how the German Propaganda
Ministry was left practically gasp
ing for breath" at the collapse of the
Mussolini government. The best it
could do, Die Weltwoche reported,
was to tell the German people to
rely with confidence in their own
strength" assuring them that only
weapons are decisive"
London More Carefree.
But just as in Italy-especially in
the minds of the younger Germans
-Mussolinis fall was difficult to
grasp. For the first time something
was broken which had always been
there and which was considered as
strong and as irrevocable as sheir
own state form" with the result
Die WeltwoIe said, that it is bound
Evening star., 1943-08-07
Marine CorpI. R. |. Mu|ford
Listed by Navy as Dead

Corpl. Robert L. Mulford, Marine
Corps, whose wife resides at GIT
Eighteenth street NV, was listed
as dead in casualty list issued by
the Navy today At the same time
it carried on the list of missing
Seaman First Class William Pur-
cell Gardiner, jr, of Waldorf, Md,
where his father, William p Gardi-
ner. sr., resides.
The list issued today carries 1ol
casualties, of which 81 are noted
as dead, SO wounded and Al missing
Corpl. Mulford. "a years old, was
graduated in 1887 from high school
at Dyess, Ark and joined the
Marine Corps in 1910 He was sta
toned at Quantico. Va, until he
was sent abroad, April /, 1912,
Mrs Mulford is connected with
the War Department.
Evening star., 1943-08-07
Russia
Continued From First Page)

Continued From First Page)
the one which pinched off Orel
at the north end of the Kursk
salientO
A Red Army war communicate,
which indicated there was to be no
letup in the initiative seized from
the Germany Army on July IL, sum-
married. the month of fighting with
figures showing the Germans ILL
starred attempt to erase the Kursk
salient had cost them 10000 dead.
and the destruction of 4,605 tanks.
II 900 trucks, 2,492 planes and 1923
guns. In addition, the Russians
said, they took 12,4l8 prisoners and
captured 62l tanks, 875 guns and
1881 machine guns and 1926 supply
and munitions depots.
The momentum of the advance.
which brought the Red Army into
Belgorod on Thursday, has carried
them we'll beyond the city in the
new offensive operations centering
around the strongly defended Khar-
kov area, the communique said. The
Russians said they already had cap
tured $50 villages along a 44-mile
front. including the railroad town of
Zolochev and seven district centers.
Reds Advancing on Bryansk.
To the north the Russians said
they routed picked German forces
to advance on Bryansk, which lies
about 80 miles to the west and
slightly north of Orel. Troops which
formed the northern spearhead of
the Orel pincers were co-ordinated
with troops from the west and CEN
trail fronts in the assault in that
area.
The movement toward Bryansk
gained up to 6 miles in yesterdays
flghting. giving the Russians 10 vii
lagos, including the town of Kromi,
26 miles northwest of Orel, the war
bulletin said.
The advances on Kharkov and
Bryansk were being heavily sup
ported by the Red Army Air Force
operating on a round the clock
schedule to bomb and strafe Ger
man concentrations and supply
dumps, the communique added.
Thirty-six Nazi planes we're shot
down In combat during the day, the
Russians said.
Evening star., 1943-08-07
Normundie
Continued From First Paee.)

clipper bow on the rock ledge upon
which it has been resting.
When a party of newspaper re-
porters was taken through the for
mer sea queen on July Is, Capt.
Manseau predicted that when right
ing began observers would be unable
to tell at any single period of watch
ing that the ship had changed
position.
Salvage operations. which it has
been estimated will cost $3,750, 900.
have sought to nullify the loss sus-
tanned to the United Nations war
effort when the ship caught fire and
capsized in the muddy water of the
Hudson River.
The Navy announced the follow
ing statistics to show the size OF the
job:
A total of 356 portfolios were
closed and SAT square feet of deck
openings were patched. An esti-
mated 5000 tons of debris and scrap,
5000 tons of superstructure and
5000 pounds of broken glass were
removed.
Approximately 10000 cubic yards
of mud were removed and divers
placed 240,500 board feet of lumber
as shorings and bulkheads and put
in $500 wedges, plugs and small
patches in openings on the hull,
During this work the divers used an
estimated 2,530,OO0,000 cubic feet of
air of standard temperature and
pressure.
The water being pumped out of
the ship comes from the compart-
ments extending fore and aft. The
underwater portion of the vessel
has been divided into IA of these
compartments and by valve mech
anism the water level inside the ship
has been kept level with tide
changes.
Evening star., 1943-08-07
SIemp
Continued From First Page.)

and Mamie B. (Cawood) Slemp.
The elder Slemp was a colonel in
the Confederate Army at % and
later was widely known In South
west Virginia as the Black Hawk
of the Cumberlan He was Serv-
ing in Congress when he died in
1907
Campbell Bascom Slemp gradu-
ated from Virginia Military Insti-
tute in 1891 and studied law at the
University of Virginia. After teach
ing mathematics at V. M. T., 1900 -Ol
he practiced law at Big Stone Gap
and was president of the Slemp
Coal Co. and other concerns.
Filled Fathers Post.
He became chairman of the State
Republican Committee in 1905 and
on December II, 1907. was elected to
the Sixtieth Congress to fill his
fathers unexpired term.
He was reelected to the Sixty
first through the Sixty-Seventh
Congress and retired to become
Coolidge's secretary. At that time
Slemp was considered the leading
Republican politician in the South.
After resigning as Coolidge's secre-
tary, and while practicing law in
Washington, Slemp was appointed
by President Hoover as commissioner
general for the United States at the
French Colonial Exposition at Paris.
This led to his being made COM
mander of the French Legion of
Honor.
He was a member of the American
Society of the French Legion of
Honor, the National Republican
Club, and the New York Southern
Society. His clubs included Lone
some Pine. Burning Tree, Metropol-
itan and National Press.
Evening star., 1943-08-07
| Axis Defendinq
| British-OWned
| Area in Sicily
BY the Associated Press.

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
NORTH AFRICA, Aug. british
troops fought their way yesterday
toward strip of British-owned ter
ritory in Sicily defended by the Axis
armies.
On the western slopes Of Mount
Etna, squarely in the path of the
British and Canadian advance, there
is the town of Bronte. And just out
side of Bronte there is large estate
that still legally belongs to the heirs
of Lord Nelson, renowned British
admiral.
The King of Naples made him the
Duke Of Bronte in 1893 after his
victory in the Battle of the Nile,
and the title to the land has never
been revoked.
Evening star., 1943-08-07
hessina Escape Port
Is Laid Waste by
Allied Planes
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
NORTH AFRICA. Aug. THE
massed power of Allied air fleets
laid waste the Axis escape port
of Messina in Northeast Sicily
yesterday in round-the- clock
attacks.
Approximately $50 tons Of bombs
were rained on the area around
MesSina as the air blows on the
enemy evacuation route from Sicily
surpassed in concentration anything
yet attempted by the Allied air
forces during the campaign.
Flying Fortresses, Wellingtons,
Marauders and Mitchells pulverized
roads, evacuation beaches and other
points opposite the Italian main
land, and Mitchells, Bostons and
ABS Invaders rained explosives on
Adrano, Bronte and Randazzo. in
the circular section around Mount
Etna still held by the Germans.
Canadian Wellingtons also dropped
blockbusters on Naples in the fifth
Allied raid against that big South
ern Italian port this month.
Can Raj survey showed that
10000 Axis planes were destroyed
or captured in the Middle East
and North African campaigns
since Italy entered the war, the
London Daily Mail said in a
Cairo dispatch, Eight thousand
of them were GERMANY
Raj Liberators and Halifaxes
from the Middle East raided San
! Giovanni, on the toe of Italy, last
night, starting fires on railway sid
ings and the ferry terminus. Beau
fighters shot UP a trawler of the
west coast of Greece.
Punished by continued lombard
ment, the heavy ,concentrst ton of
enemy ground defenses in the Mes
sina area offered considerably less
fire" yesterday than previously, and
Allied airmen saw no enemy planes
over the targets there.
Eight Allied planes were reported
missing from the many hundreds of
missions yesterday.
Unescorted Flying Fortresses,
dumping explosives on the road
functions in the Messina Harbor
area, found sit more like a test
fight, but it did begin to get a
little hotter just as we left the
target" said Gunner Sergt. Joseph
Macchiverna of Danbury, Conn.
Road Junction Raided.
Marauders with Lightning escort
picked out the road junction of
Badjassa, near Messina, deluging
several important spurs of the high
way with their bombs.
Mitchells under Lightning cover
attacked roads mile north of Gesso,
village in the Messina area.
Like the Fortresses and Ma
rauders, the Mitchells encountered
no enemy aircraft and dwindling
ground fire.
Relays Of American Invaders, Bos-
tons and Mitchells augmented by
Raj and South African Bostons
strafed the roads and bombed
enemy positions around the base of
Mount Etna Forty-eight trucks
were destroyed near Randazzo.
Sweeping over the toe of Italy,
Americans wrecked % more trucks
on the west coast road near RoSamo.
American and South African
Kittyhawks hit seven barges and a
merchant vessel in the Messina
Straits.
RAF Wellingtons bombed 80 land =
Evening star., 1943-08-07
Sleeper Hurt in FoII
From Roof of Guruoe

Charles Hunt. 43, OF 826 Sixth
street NE, is in Casualty Hospital
in an undetermined condition after
falling from the roof of garage at
633 H street NE. early today. Asleep
on the roof, he rolled off TO the
pavement. He is being treated for
possible skull fracture and a lacer-
ated scalp.
Evening star., 1943-08-07
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, Aug. 7.-Roman
Catholics throughout the world
and the people of Italy in par
ticular have been called on by
Pope Plus XII to turn to God sin
penitence and prayer" that peace
might be brought to the world.
In letter to Luigi Cardinal Mag
lioni, papal secretary of state, the
pontif said that I'VE who carry in
our soul the sorrow and anxiety of
all shall not leave anything un-
tried to substitute hatred with char
rity and struggle and victory with
the serenity of peace
Italian Hopes Fading.
The Pope's action came in the
midst of warlike utterances by
Premier Pietro Badoglio and while
Italy's hopes of avoiding ultimate
surrender to the Allies were fading
on the battlefields of Russia and
Sicily and in the bomb shattered
cities of Germany.
The Vatican City radio told of
the Pope's action in broadcast
recorded in London by the Ministry
of Information.
Axis transmissions told of other
developments.
Typical of Badoglio's new militar-
istic propaganda line was a broad
cast from Rome this morning that
"a large number of lads under mil
itary age have asked to be allowed
to join the army as volunteers" The
broadcast was heard by the Ministry
of Information here.
Ven Ribbentrop in Italy.
1t appeared, however, that Hitler
has not completely abandoned hope
of holding Italy in the Axis orbit.
An italian frontier report said Nazi
Foreign Minister Joachim Won Rib
bentrop met the new Italian foreign
minister, Raffaele Guariglia, some
where in Northern italy yesterday.
While there were no details avail
able on the subjects discussed, 1t
was presumed the Nazi leader
sounded out Italy's plans for the i'm
mediate future and her position re-
garding her alliance with Germany.
How long Won Ribbentrop planned to
stay in Italy was not divulged.
Reuters reported from Lisbon that
airport officials there have been told
that a special Italian plane would
arrive from Rome today, but there
was no indication as to who might
be aboard.
Terms Called Unacceptable.
Julio Morones, Rome correspond
ent of EFF, official Spanish foreign
news agency, In the first dispatch
sent out of Rome in a fortnight,
said Rome had announced that "the
war continues" because the adver-
saries of Italy did not present ac-
ceptable conditions for cessation of
hostilities." There was no mention
in Morone's dispatch of any nego-
tiations between the Badoglio gov
ernment and the Allies, who insist
that Italy must surrender uncon-
ditionally.
Morones reported that war devel-
opments now were the principal
concern of the Italians.
The Rome radio announced last
night the abolition of the governor
ship of Dalmatia in favor of a gov
ernment through the Italian home
office, co-ordinated with the mil
itary The broadcast was recorded
by the Associated Press.
Evening star., 1943-08-07
Heat Prostration Victim
Dies in HOSPITAL

A man whose name was given
Bill Lang, 316 Ninth street NV,
died at Gallinger Hospital yesterday.
Mr.. Lang, unconscious, was taken
to the hospital in Casualty Hos
pital ambulance Thursday. DR.. A.
Magruder Mcdonald, coroner, today
issued a certificate Of death due to
heat exhaustion.
This brought to three the number
of deaths yesterday from heat ex-
haustlon and made total of six
deaths for the year. There were six
deaths from exhaustion last year.
Evening star., 1943-08-07
Brown Promises Statement
On Petroleum Situation
BY the Associated Press

DETROIT, Aug. Price Admin
istrator Prentiss M. Brown said here
today an announcement ION the
general petroleum situation" would
be made in Washington early next
week.
Mr.. Brown, stopping here en- route
to his home at st. Ignace, Mich.
for a two-week vacation, would not
smplify his statement except to say
the announcement would be made
Jointly by the once of Price Admin
tstration, the Petroleum Administra-
ton for War and the War Produc-
tion Board.
Evening star., 1943-08-07
Large Bomber Force
Rours Over Channel
v the Associated Press.

BY IHt ASNOcIated PTeSS
LONDON, Aug IA large force
of planes, apparently heavy bombers,
Numbered southward across the
English Channel early today and
the Nazi high command said some
bombs were dropped over Western
Germany without causing damage" )"
Specific targets were not immedi-
ately disclosed.
Britain had its sixth raid free
night in row. Not single AFRAID
casualty has been reported now in
% days.
Evening star., 1943-08-07
1O-Plone American Raid
On Santa Isabel Reported

LONDON, Aug. 7 I4o).-The Berlin
radio, quoting a Toxic dispatch, said
today that l27 American bombers
raided Santa Isabel Island, in the
Solomons group, in daylight yes
terday The broadcast, recorded by
the Associated Press, said the dam
age was slight and that eight at
tacking planes had been shot down.
Evening star., 1943-08-07

out on strikes. Mertz singled to
right. Clary forced Mertz, Newsome
to Doerr.
BOSTON-Vernon went to the
first base boxes to make a one-hand
catch of Partees foul. Sullivan
threw out Dobson. L. Newsome
singled past second. Lupien singled
to right. Newsome stopping at sec
ond. Metkovich flied deep to Moore.
FOURTH INNING.
WASHINGTON-C lined to
Metkovich. Vernon struck out. Moore
flied to Culberson.
BOSTON-Tabor popped to Priddy.
Doerr hit his twelfth home run of
the season over the left field wall.
Fox singled to center. Culberson
fouled to Giuliani. Fox was out
stealing, Giuliani to Sullivan. One
run.
FIFTH INNING.
WASHINGTON-Priddy flied to
Metkovich close to the center field
wall. Doerr tossed out Spence. Sui
livan singled through the box. Giu-
liani looped double to right and
Sullivan was out at the plate at
tempting to score, Fox to Partee.
BOSTON-Sullivan threw out
Partee. Dobson struck out. L. New
some singled to left. Lupien walked.
Metkovich's grounder took bad
hop past Vernon for a single, scor-
ing L. Newsome and sending Lupien
to third. Tabor hit home run
over the left field fence, scoring
Lupien and Metkovich ahead of him
Doerr was called out on strikes
Four runs.
SIXTH INNING.
WASHINGTON-Robertson bat
tee for Mertz and walked Clary
doubled of the left-field fence, Rob-
ertson stopping at third. Case flied
to Fox, the runners holding their
bases. Robertson scored and Clary
took third as Vernon went out
Lupien to Dobson,, who covered first
Moore singled to right. scoring
Clary. Priddy singled to left, Moore
stopping at second. Spence forced
Priddy, l.. Newsome to Doerr. Two
runs.
BOSTON-Miller now pitching
for Washington. Fox flied to Case.
Culberson flied to Spence. Partee
walked Dobson singled to left,
Partee stopping at second, but when
Case fumbled the ball both runners
advanced. L. Newsome popped to
Priddy.
SEVENTH INNING.
WASHINGTON-Tabor threw out
Sullivan. Giuliani was thrown out
by L. Newsome. Miller popped to
L. Newsome
BOSTON-Lupien popped to Sui
livan. Metkovich bunted and Miller
threw him out. Tabor popped to
Priddy.
EIGHTH INNING.
WASHINGTON-Tabor threw out
Clary. Case singled to left. Ver-
non singled to right. Case reaching
third Moore tapped in front of
the plate and was thrown out by
Partlee On Particles throw to first
base Case scored and Vernon took
second. Priddy grounded to Tabor.
Tabor attempted to tag out Vernon
coming into third base. but Vernon
retreated safely back to second as
Tabor chased him all the way "a
flelder's choice. Spence flied to Fox.
One run.
BOSTON-Doerr flied to Moore.
Fox walked. Culberson singled to
left, Fox reaching third. Partee
singled to left, scoring Fox, Gull
berson stopping at second. Dobson
struck out. L. Newsome singled to
left, scoring Culberson, Partee stop
ping at second. Both runners ad-
vanced on a wild pitch. Lupien
walked, filling the bases. Metkovich
went out Vernon to Miller. Two
Evening star., 1943-08-07
Darts Disappear

Thieves have stolen so many darts
from saloons in Dartford, England,
that some proprietors make Gus
toners bring their own If they want
to play.