davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1943-12-02
Few Classified
By Local Board

Classifications by the local
board this week are as follows:
LA CID: Roy Bare; IA: Beldon
B. Bare and Joseph c. Bumgar-
ner; 2-B: Thomas E. Childress,
j. c. Blevins, Garland Ham, Ray
R. Ham, Russell c. Crawford,
Joseph w. Dougherty and GARNER
L. Campbell; ga: Carl w. Rich
ardson, Elmer r. Crawford, Jos
eph B. Eller and ga (H): Adolf
phus H. Hartsoe; Sd: Ike c. Med
ley.
At: Samuel E. Sluder, brewery
j. Adams, Walter V. Craft and
Dewey B. Campbell.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1943-12-02
Principals OF
Schools To Meet

There will be a meeting of the
principals of the Ashe county
high schools this afternoon in the
office of the county superinten-
dent of schools.
At this time, plans will be
made for giving the standard test
sent out by the N. c. Depart
ment of Education for seventh
grade pupils on the completion
of four months of school work.
Other matters pertaining to the
schools will also be discussed.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1943-12-02
HOME ON FURLOUGH

Clyde Goodman, of the U. S.
Navy, stationed at cambridge,
Md, spent the week end with his
family. While here, he was CIV
en- a surprise birthday party by
his sisters.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1943-12-02
WELFARE PROGRAM
FOR ROTARY CLUB

Rev. John S. Jordan, who is in
charge of the program at the JEFF
Persons Rotary club tonight an
nounced tn public welfare
would be the subject.
Several short speeches are to be
made on this subject, Mr.. Jordan
said.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1943-12-02

Mr.. and Mrs. H. G.. Sides, of
Winston-Salem, were the guests
of Mr.. and Mrs. Ira Patton and
Mrs. Nancy Shouns, of Parker,
last week.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1943-12-02

Miss Mary Brown, who is en-
ployed at Arlington, Va, spent
last week with her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. J. C.. Brown.
Evening star., 1943-11-10
Mrs. Roosevelt Pays Tribute
To Nurses on Home Front

Because hospitalized servicemen
often are upset by visits from
their families, nurses in mill
tary and naval hospitals in this
country are apt to have an even
harder job than those serving abroad,
Mrs. Roosevelt said last night.
Her talk at Departmental Audito-
rum featured the 40th annual meet
ing of the Graduate Nurses ASsocia-
ton and the League of Nursing Edu-
cation of the District. The Red
Cross Committee on Recruitment
assisted in arranging the program.
Mrs. Roosevelt explained that rela-
tives of the wounded frequently
don't know the proper approach in
dealing with problems to be faced
by the men who have returned home
handicapped by their injuries. I'm
less the nurse can help out in the
situation, she said. the boys are apt
to be more discouraged after they
have had a visit from their rela-
tives,"
Praises Work in Pacific.
PraiSing the work of the nurses
she saw in the South Pacific during
her recent trip, the speaker sug.
gested they will continue to have all
important role when they return
home after the war.
She pointed out that regardless OF
their ply sical condition, all the men
who have known the tremendous
stress of war will have certain ad-
justments to make on their return
to civilian life. They may not be
quite so easy to get along with" she
said, "or they may not have the
same values.
The nurses who have been with
them will be among the few people
who will understand what's hap
pened to them. for the nurses have
had the same experiences. too.
The number who will know" she
added will hc very small and the
number to be educated will be very
great"
Mrs. Roosevelt, paying tribute to
tne nursing profession as a whole.
also pointed out that such groups as
The Student Nurse Cadet Corps are
playing a vital part in the war by
enabling civilian hospitals to carry
on with = skeleton Scaff.
Following her talk she presented
pms to group Of girls from the
Req Cross Student Reserve in the
local schools. The session opened
with a procession of nurses of the
various services in uniform.
A recommendation that group
nursing be established in all hos
pitalS in the District was approved
py the Graduate Nurses Association
al 4 separate meeting yesterday
afternoon. The plan, which would
involve assignment of a private
nurse to two or three patients. is to
De presented to the Hospital Super
lntendents' Association for consid-
Grafton.
Eight-Hour Duty Urged.
The nurses group recommended
that, as far SIS possible, group nurs-
ing be USED for eicht-hour duty only.
1t suggested that if nurses accept
l2-hour duty they be assigned to
two patients only and that the num-
Der OF patients be limited to three
for eieht-houp duty.
Its proposed salary scale for group
nursing was 81 each for two pa
tients on eight hour duty: So each
for three patients on eieht-hour
duty and S6 each for two patients on
l2-hour duty.
Miss Pearl McIver. principal nurs-
ing consaltant, United States Public
Health Service. was elected presi-
dent of the associa ton, succeeding
Miss Annabelle Petersen. Miss
Evening star., 1943-11-10
Boby Kidnoper Sent
To Mental Institution

BY the Associated Press
ALBANY, Oreg., Nov. 10.-Charged
with abducting a 2-day-old baby
Mrs. Catherine Wright. 26, has beer
found mentally deficient by a sanity
commission.
Circuit Judge L. G. Lewelling or
dered her committed to an institu-
tion for mental trea tment
The baby, Judith Gurney. was
taken from a hospital crib last Au-
Evening star., 1943-11-10

Lucy Masten was elected second vice
president, Miss Inez L. Cadel treas
urer, and Miss M. Cordelia Cowan
and Miss Petersen, directors.
The District League of Nursing
Education elected Miss Hazel Ire
man, vice president, and Miss
CoWan and Sister Jonailla, directors
Miss Alice c. Stone is league presi-
dent.
Evening star., 1943-11-10
Arab Princes Besieeed
By Autograph Requests

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Nov. 10.-Two Saudi
Arabian princes ran into an old
American custom when they were
guests of honor last night at a re-
ception concluding six-week tour
of the United States
The princes, Amir Faisal and Amir
khalid. were prevailed on by other
guests to sign approximately 800
autographs.
Prince Faisal disclosed that his
country hoped to establish in WASH
ington soon the first Arabian diplo-
matte legation ever sent to the
Evening star., 1943-11-10
Best Lawyer Gets Letter

When letter from the United
States arrived at the post office in
Mexico City. addressed ITO the best
lawyer in Mexico" the officials went
into a huddle. They delivered the
letter to Luis Cabrera, famous law
YER former minister of finance and
one OF the country's best nonfiction
authors.
Evening star., 1943-11-10
Netherlands to Bon Use
Of Opium After War

Ey the Associated Press.
LONDON, Nov. 10.-The Neither
lands government announced today
its decision to suppress opium smok-
ing in the Netherlands Indies fol-
lowing the liberation of the islands
from Japanese domination.
Opium smoking had been per-
mitted in certain parts of the East
Evening star., 1943-11-10

Indies in conformity with provisions
OF the Geneva agreement Of 1925
looking toward the gradual abolition
OF the use Of the drug. Complete
suppression was planned within Is
years Of date to have been set by
League of Nations commission.
Evening star., 1943-11-10
ADVERTISEMENT.
Occasional
CONSTIPATION
Relieved Promptly. EasiIy

Here's how: Take oar o: two E-Z
Tablets at bedtime. They're very
tiny and practically tastclcss. .;ext
morning they'll act without grip
ing OF unples ssant aftcr-effec;s.
Don't continue to suffer from lug
gishness, headaches or general list
lessness due 70 occasional censtiDa-
ton, when effective relief is so easy
and pleasant. so little E-Z Tablets
at drug stores for only e5c.
Evening star., 1943-11-10

gust-the youngest child ever Alb
Quoted. ofIlcers said-and was found
by police later In Mrs. Wright's
home.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1943-08-05
The Three Days That
Changed World History

In his book, ''My Experiences in
World War l." Gen. J. J. Pershing
tells of the Rainbow divisions part
in stopping the last great German
offensive as follows:
1.-THE German offensive was
launched on the early morning of
July is, as expected, but it was met
with a surprise barrage put down
by General Gouraud's artillery half
an hour before the start. The Ger
mans attack formations were
thrown into confusion and their force
seriously weakened to begin with.
sour 42nd division became en-
gagged and sustained relatively heavy
losses. It's conduct on the first and
succeeding days brought high praise
from the French army commander
The Germans were stopped to
the east of Rheims by Gouraud's
Fourth army with but slight gains,
while to the southwest they got
across the Marine and made some
progress toward Epernay. The fail
ure of the attack in Champagne
and the relatively slight gains to
which the Germans were held to the
west of Rheims on the first day ma
terially heartened the Allies" But
even more eloquent testimony as to
the significance of those July days
quarter Of a century ago is given by
Won Hertling, the German chancel-
lor, who said later: ''We expected
grave events in Paris for the end of
July. That was on the 18th. On
the 18th even the most optimistic
among us understood that all was
lost. The history Of the world was
played out in three days"
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1943-08-05

units followed in rapid succession
and by the end of November the last
had landed at an overseas port, eli
Their in England or France. Gath
cred together finally in France, in
tensive training was the order of the
day from that time on. The training
areas were the 5th (Vaucouleurs),
the 7th (Rolampon), the 4th (Rima-
COURT and (for the field artillery
brigade and the 117th ammunition
train) Camp Coetquidan and the vi
cinity of Langres. Since the Rain
bow was one of the first complete
divisions to reach the theater of war,
the arrival of these Yanks with the
variegated color patch on their
shoulders was hailed as veritable
rainbow Of hope" for the hard
pressed Allies.
While the division was still at
Camp Mills, many different kinds of
rainbow designs were used as divi-
sional insignia. They were irregular
in size but nearly all were a half
circle with the three colors of red,
yellow and blue in them. It was
not until the division was engaged in
a major action in the Meuse-
Argonne that the final, official de-
sign was conceived and adopted.
Col. William N. Hughes Jr, who
had succeeded Col. Douglas MacAr-
thur as chief of staff of the division,
determined the measurements, re-
duced the original design to a quar-
ter circle and telegraphed the de-
scription, with the approval of Maj.
Gen. Charles T. Menoher, then divi-
sion commander, to corps headquar-
terS.
1t is one Of the cherished
traditions of the And that Gen.
eral Menoher, acting on an
omen of a rainbow in the sky,
sent the division into action in
the Champagne operation. From
the time that he told of seeing
the rainbow in the sky from his
bivOuac i'm the Baccarat sector,
rainbows kept showing up at de-
cisive hours in the divisions his
tory, as if to justify its selection
as the 42nd's talisman.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1943-08-05

GEN. DOUGLAS MACARTHUR
he named it the 'Rainbow'
division
ever, was left to the French 9th
corps, on the left of the Rainbow.
On the night of November 10 the
And division was relieved, and as
sembled in the area Of Artaise-le-
Vivier and Les Petites-Armoises.
The Full Tide of Victory.
The 42nd thus shared in the full
tide Of victory, on the morning of
November II, 1918. The American
Second army was even then prepar-
ing for a general assault in the di-
rection of Metz, in an offensive with
the famous Mangin and 20 French
divisions. The Meuse had been
crossed, French troops in Sedan in
retaliation for the terrible French
defeat there in 1870; the Germans
were on the run, almost in utter
rout.
Naturally, the Rainbow was one
Of the crack divisions of the AEF
chosen to be part of the American
Army Of Occupation. Concentrating
near Stenay, it began the long hike
into the Rhineland on November 20.
On December IA it took its station in
Germany in the Kreis Of Ahrweiler.
Training continued there, on the
steep hill Of the, Rhineland, through
the winter and spring of 1918-1919,
until April 5, when the division be-
gan entraining for Brest. On April
8 the first element to sail for the
United States, the 117th Trench Nor
tar Battery, boarded transport for
an American port. BY May IL,
rehabilitation had been completely
effected at Camps Upton. Dix. Grant
and Dodge.
''After the storm, the rainbow!"
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1943-08-05

deepest into the enemy positions. In
the main attack, the End division
captured Thiaucourt, the LIST took
Nonsard, and the And division drove
through to Pannes.
Through the thick Of the heaviest
action of the Meuse-Argonne opera
ton, the Rainbow carried on. It
penetrated the Kriemhilde line,
swooped up the fire-swept slopes
about ROMANCE and Cote Dame Ma
rie; it seized Cote de Chatillon by
skillful infiltration behind its protec-
tive wire, and early in November.
on the extreme left flank Of the
American attack, it began to fight
through Bulson, Thelonne and Ba-
zeilles, on the Mouse, to gain the
cherished final objective-Sedan.
The taking Of Sedan, for senti-
mental and historic reasons, how
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1943-08-05

GEN. CHARLES r. MENOHER
he saw q rainbow on the
eve of battle
menr in Washington. Visited by
newspaper men one day.. he told
them of the forthcoming organiza-
ton of a new division to be COM
posed of units from q states and
the District of Columbia. AS the
journalists were leaving, Macarthur
remarked that the assembling Of so
many units from so many states into
one division was somewhat like
making up a rainbow. Struck by
the aptness of the expression, the
newspaper men used it in their sto-
ries and the nickname stuck to the
division when v vas organized on
August l, 1917, and concentrated at
Camp Mills on Long Island in New
York.
No time was spent in training but
Immediately after assembling at
Camp Mills, the division started
."'over there" First to sail was the
advance detachment, which left
Hoboken September q and arrived
safely overseas on October 6. Other
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1943-08-05

Besides Gen. Douglas Macarthur.
who has become one of the outstand-
ing heroes of World War II, the
Rainbow division included in its per-
sonnet others who were marked for
future fame. Among these were
Col. William J. (''Wild Bill') Dono-
van, Brig, Gen. Charles P. Summer
all, Father James P. Duffy, chaplain
of New York's Fighting Irish" (the
1e5th infantry, and Sergt. Joyce Kill
mer, destined to be remembered
not so much for his exploits in war
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1943-08-05

uniform of each man in its
the red, yellow and blue
striped quarter-circle which
was the sign and symbol of a
"First-class f1ghtin' man." a
member of the Rainbow"
Division.
The reactivation took place at
midnight-the champagne hour"
SO called because it was the hour
when the last great German push
Of World War I, the Champagne
offensive, began. That offensive,
which started on July IA, 1918, broke
to pieces against the stubborn resist
ance of those fighting Yanks of the
Rainbow division and from that day
the might of the kaiser's armies
ebbed until it reached low tide in
railroad car in Compeigne forest
four months later.
Two Messages.
Before the veterans of the Rainbow
division of a quarter century ago ad-
journed their 1943 meeting. they sent
two messages to widely separated
parts of the world. One was flashed
to Gen. Douglas Macarthur, some
where in the Southwest Pacific" be-
cause it was he who had given their
division it's nickname. The other
was the traditional reunion greet
ings to one-armed Gen. Henri Joseph
Eugene Gouraud, who commanded
the Fourth French army, which in
cluded the American division, at the
historic battle in the Champagne
sector July IA and Is, 1918. The
message was sent to Gen. Dwight
D. Eisenhower, cornmander-in-chief
of the Allied forces in the European
theater of war, to be transmitted to
General Gouraud somewhere in Oc-
cupied France,
In the early summer Of 1917
young colonel named Douglas Mac
Arthur was serving as censor" for
news coming out of the war depart
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1943-08-05
Division added Many Names Roll of Heroes

tillery (155's), l51st field artillery
75's), 117th trench mortar bat
terry.
Divisional troops: 149th machine
gun battalion. 117th engineers, 1l7th
field signal battalion, headquarters
troop. Il
Trains: 117th. train headquarters
and military police, 117th arnnuni-
ton train, 117th supply train. 117th
engineer train, l17th sanitary train
Ambulance companies and field
hospitals 165-168).
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1943-08-05

the Luneville sector, at point north
of PLANE, through Neu-
viller, Ancerviller, the eastern edge
Of the Bots Banal, to the eastern
and northern edges of the Foret de
Parroy. Elements of the 42nd's ar
tillery brigade entered the DOM
basle sector, also on the night of the
21st, to receive their first taste of
combat warfare affiliated with the
French 41st division.
From March 81 to June 81 the
division occupied the Baccarat Sec
tor in Lorraine, moving from there
to Chatel-sur-Mos in the Vosges.
Then came July, with it's heavy
fighting in the Champagne and
Champa gne-Marne areas. The high
light of the And divisions activities
at this time would seem to be that
terrific battle of La Croix Rouge
Farm.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1943-08-05

as peacetime accomplishments
his writing the poem Trees"
The And division was made up Of
the following outfits:
83rd infantry brigade; 165th in
fantry, 166th infantry, 150th machine
gun battalion.
64th infantry brigade: 18TH in
fantry, 168th infantry, 151st machine
gun battalion.
9th field artillery brigade: 14Sth
field artillery (75's), 15oth field ar
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1943-08-05

UCCdnC Vic 1uSlSuAd Va tuC
42nd division
Before long veterans Of our regu-
lar army as well as veteran French
and British troops were joining in
proclaiming the Rainbow division as
one of the hardest fighting outfits in
France. Here is its record, as given
in series of articles on "AEF Divi-
sional Insignia" written several
years ago by Sergt. Herbert E.
Smith for the United States Recruit
ing News:
First Taste of War.
It trained under veteran French
soldiers in Lorraine, and elements
of the Rainbow division entered the
front line trenches for the first time
February 81, 1918. This was along
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1943-08-05
BY ELMO SCOTT WATSON
Released by Western Newspaper Union

other day veterans of the And Division World
held their reunion in Tulsa Okla Then they went to
Camp Gruber Muskogee there to the reactvation
of their tradtonrch outfit to pass to the new And
Division of World War II their honored battle flags and
gaze proudly upon the shoulder patch adjoining the
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1943-08-05

This farm was low, widespread
group of stone buildings connected
by walls and bitches. The Germans
had made an enormous machine gun
nest of this natural stronghold, and
had defied several earlier deter
mined efforts of Allied troops to dis
lodge them from this key position.
The 18TH and the 168th infantry
regiments, old Alabama and Iowa
troops respectively, struggled all
day, July 26, against this nest Of
horrors. It was practically impos-
sible to rush this enemy stronghold
across the open; endeavors to work
around the edges were thrown back
by fanking fire; an accurate punish
ing shell fire from the German artil-
lery ripped through the wet under
brush; gas, made doubly dangerous
by the moisture, swirled about in
terrible gusts.
Wounded lay in the mud and
muck. There were no roads to the
rear through the woods by which
ambulances could be brought up to
remove these wounded. Shippers
picked off many officers. The men,
deprived of leadership, still strug-
gled forward as best they could, but
each successive repulse was more
costly than the last.
At last, two platoons of assembled
casuals-volunteers, all, from the
18TH and 168th-led by two lieu
tenants, squirmed their way for
ward, Indian fashion, and closed
upon the farm buildings with gre
nades and bayonet. The raid, staged
at dusk, was successful. The And
possessed La Croix Rouge farm at
nightfall, but at fearful cost in dead
and wounded.
Less than week later these same
regiments, with their sister outfits
of the Rainbow, were pressing for
ward toward the Ourcq river. Upon
the And fell the chief burden of the
main attack. 1t was ordered to
storm the heights on both sides of
Sergy and, in conjunction with the
French on the left, to take Hill 1874
northwest of Percent ardenois.
A Deadly Hail of Fire.
The 168th infantry crossed the
stream under deadly hail of fire.
to climb by slow stages to the crest
Of Hill 212, between Sergy and
Cierges. The 10th meanwhile, had
made its way down the Rue de la
Taverne, crossed the Ourcq, and
swept on up the northern slope of
the billy country.
New York's fighting Irish" of the
165th infantry emerged from Villers
and secured a precarious Judgment
on the slopes on either side of Mer-
curry Farm. Subjected to the same
raking fire that had made this push
so costly, this fine regiment still car
ried on, plunging forward to the
sunken road north and west Of
Sergy.
by 11l1OdlICI1lOOll IIlS weary OOu6Il.
boys of the And division were bat
ting in mortal, hand-to-hand combat
with the Germans in the streets of
Sergy. The enemy troops were Of
the 4th Prussian Guard, grim and
spirited fighters embittered by re-
cent German setbacks, veterans
all and determined men.
Twice the Americans were rushed
out of Sergy, but thrice the Yanks
returned, and the third time the
Americans captured the entire viii
lage. Again the men Of the Rain
bow division had proved to be of
heroic mould.
In the St. Mihiel drive, launched
in mid-September, the And, with
the 1st and End, formed the spear
head of the attack which penetrated
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1943-08-19
Here Is Another
One From Bill
His Very Lotest
RI
Conrad, Mont, Aug. is, l943

Conrad, Mont, Aug Is, l943
Dear Editor:
Don't think | am nuts about dogs,
but III vouch for the following
story.
Last week as | was driving to
Dupuyer | noticed a fine looking
dog along sthe road He was making
fine stand and thinking he was
pointing a covey of birds, | pulled
up and got out to watch him work.
However, as soon as opened the
car door, the dog jumped into the
car and onto the back seat and lay
down. | continued with the dog
on my way and after driving about
20 miles, in the meantime believ-
ing had come into possession of a
fine bird dog and wondering how
he would work this coming bird
season, the dog sat UP and began
scratching my shoulder I told him
to lie down However, with whine
he continued to scratch me, so
thinking he might want out to in
spect a tire or something, I stopped