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Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1943-03-11
MARRIED IN ENGLAND

The first one Of our local men
1erving overseas with the army
to get married is Spurlock Null
ms. A letter from the bride to
Mr.. Mullins parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Sol Mullins of ClintWood,
announced the marriage. The
maiden name of the new Mrs.
Mullins was not learned but she
resides at Devonia, Dalston, Car
Isle, Cumberland, England.
Mullins, though over the age
limit at the time, registered for
the first draft and was indicted
from the State of Washington.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1943-03-11
WARDENS ASK PUBLIC
TO BE CAREFUL WITH
BRUSH AND TRASH FIRES

Cief forest warden ] w Rose
states that he and his local war
dens in Dickinson are asking the
cooperation of all citizens in US
ing extreme care in order to pre-
vent the escape Of brush and
trash fires to forested areas.
Mr.. Rose stated that 10 forest
fires were caused in 1912 in this
county by careless and unlawful
handling of brush and trash fires.
This, he states, represents Is per
cent Of all forest fires burning
in the county during the year.
He comments that these fires
damaged and destroyed many
acres Of forest land and large
quantities of forest products vi
tai to our welfare.
Mr.. Rose is asking that every
citizen who burns trash, brush
or materials of any kind in the
vicinity of forested land use a
few simple rules, as follows:
|. Never burn in windy wealth
err.
2. Not burn until o'clock in
the afternoon CATER that time the
air is d.mper and the wind gen.
orally dies DOWN.
3. Rake wide path or fire line
free from grass, logs, leaves or
sticks, entirely around the area
to be burned.
4. Have sufficient help and
tools to Immediately control the
fire should it escape.
s. Burn against the wind. Burn
(Turn to page 81
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1943-03-11
Pay Raise Sought For
Teachers Of Southwest

County officials from eight
Southwest Virginia counties met
at Lebanon on Tuesday of this
week at the invitation of the
school superintendent and COM
mCnWealth attorney of Russell
County to consider common prob
lens in connection with secur-
ing additional funds for teachers
salaries for next school session.
Dickinson county was represent
ed at the meeting by Carter Phil
lips, chairman Of the board of
supervisors and James M. Skeen,
superintendent Of schools.
Ira NJ. CULLEN, attorney for the
Commonwealth for Russell coun-
ty, presided over the meeting and
c.. H. Givens. school superinten-
dent, served as secretary.
Following a discussion by rep
resentatives from each county as
to the financial conditions Of
schools in his division, three
point resolution was passed for
subm.ttal to the governor of Vir
ginia. This resolution called for
ten per cent increase III funds
from the state for payment OF
teachers in addition to the nor
NAL increase already due from
state sources for the 1884 Ses-
sion. The resolution called for a
special session of the General AS
sembly to act upon the matter OF
increased salaries for teachers if
Governor Darden is unable to
move without legislative action.
The resolution further set forth
that the proposed pay increase be
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1943-03-11
MRS. MAHLON SWINDALL
NOT EXPECTED TO LIVE

Nancy Elizabeth Swindall, "a
year old widow of the late NAH
lon R. SWindall of Osborne Gap,
is reported critically i'll and is
not expected to recover. She has
been in declining health for
more than a year and has been
confined to bed for several
weeks.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1943-03-11

met on the same basis as such
funds are now met by. localities.
Each school division reported
that many teachers have taken
other jobs during the present ses
sion because of better pay, and
that others are expected to leave
the profession before the begin
ming Of another school term I'M
less salaries were increased. This
condition, combined with the vir
tually exhausted financial re-
sources of the majority of coun-
ties, have tended to make eff
cient operation of schools i'm
possible.
The local superintendent of
schools reports that the financial
condition of Dickinson county as
compared with several counties
is good. Teachers in the county
this year will receive on an av-
erage Of $1,000, when all bonus
payments have been made. Every
teacher in the county has receiv-
ed a substantial increase over
salaries paid last year. However,
small increase for next session
is all that can be expected I'M
uess the state provides addition
al funds above the normal in
crease for the 1943-44 session.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1943-03-11
HONEST JOHN TURNS POETFARMER

Time cannot wither nor custom
stale the infinite variety of Hon
est John, who appears in the role
Of farmer-poet according to re-
port appearing in the paper this
week. The report follows:
Washington, March 6.-Repre-
sentative John w. Flanagan, Jr.
a Virginia farmer, reported to the
House yesterday what he called
the latest suggestion Of the War
Production Board wonder boys"
An Idaho sheep rancher, he
said, applied for permission to
buy canvas to build lambing pens
and the WPB gave him this ans
wer:
ct is impossible to allow you
such large amount of canvas
for the purpose of making lamb
ing sheds. AS an alternative, we
suggest that you postpone your
Landing season until more favor
able weather."
Completely dumfounded by this
wise and scintillating decision"
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1943-03-11

Land Suit Is
Finally Settled

There was decided this week
by the Supreme Court Of APP
peals of Virginia, case that
means as much as any case ever
decided in this state to the peo-
pie of Buchanan, Dickinson and
other Virginia counties in which
there are coal mines. This was
the case of Yukon Pocahontas
Coal Co., and other against FIN.
Ratliff and others.
In 1904, James M. Ratliff, now
deceased, sold the coal on his
700 acres of land on Levisa Riv-
er. This coal land includes the
coal of the present Red Jacket
coal operation, which is now one
of the largest in Virginia, is 10
Gated, this operation being known
as the Keen Mountain operation.
Mr.. Ratliff, who died some
years ago, in this deed for his
coal did not sell or convey the
surface Of his land. After h i S
death the surface was partition
ed between his children, one Of
them being former sheriff F. M.
Ratliff. w. A. Street and F M
Ratliff bought the interest in this
land laid off to Tom Ratliff,
which was the lower end of the
large tract of land, and the part
next to the Keen Mountain OPP
GRAFTON and town, and laid it
off into town lots and sold it. The
buildings on these lots have cost
some $4,000 to $4,000. The
company mining the coal on the
Ratliff land brought suit some
five years ago in the circuit court
of Buchanan county, claiming
they needed this surface land for
coke ovens, miners houses, hos
pitfalls, and gardens Of their min
ers and that they were entitled
to the land under their coal deed.
This case went twice to the
highest court in this state. The
Circuit Court sustained first a de
murrer to the compliments bill,
and the company carried the case
up and in 1910 the supreme court
decided this case and reversed
the circuit court and sent the
case back for the evidence to be
heard. The circuit court decided
the case, holding that the COM
pany was not, under its coal
deed, entitled to use this land
for building, and that the own
ers of the buildings on the land
were entitled to the same.
The supreme court has just af
firmed the circuit court.
The expense of this suit has
been great, many thousands OF
dollars paid out by both sides.
(Turn to page y
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1943-03-11
Labor Hearing
Here Enters
Third Week

The labor hearing confines I'M
abated for the third consecutive
week and will not be concluded
before the middle of the coming
week, according to persons in
attendance. On Monday afternoon
the Clinchfield Coal Corporation
began its presentation of test
mony to refute charges of alleg-
ed unfair labor practices since
1888 by evidence brought forth
by witnesses summoned here by
the National Labor Relations
Board This evidence was heard
by Trial Examiner c. w. Whit
more during the first two weeks
of the proceedings.
Most OF the witnesses put on
the stand by the corporation this
week have been foremen and 9th
err supervisors of labor. In gen.
eral these witnesses testified that
rock cars had been furnished to
coal leaders when the section
foremen or motormen, in some
instances, thought the leaders
needed the cars to remove ex-
cess rock. 1t is our understand
ing, according to testimony heard
that leaders are to "gob" rock on
one side of the room up to a GER
tain height, and then if there was
rock to be handled, car was to
case of miners at Clinchco in De-
cember, according to their testi-
mony, the company refused to
furnish rock cars when needed
and they refused to work, caus-
ing what the company termed
sit-doWn strike During this con-
troversy ten men, all officials or
members of grievance commit
tee of the local UMWA, were dis
charged. In testimony presented
this week the corporation con-
tends that these men were dis
charged for sabotage, preventing
other men from working, etc.
These ten discharged men all
testified to the contrary.
Attorney Wheatley, of the
Labor Board, intimated in his
cross examination Of company
witnesses yesterday that the com
pany had instigated or set up the
conditions which brought about
the strike in order that the lead
ers of UMWA local could be dis
charged. According to our infor-
nation none of the discharged
men have been identified as the
persons who wedged the track
switch, placed motor across the
switch or did any other act to
prevent other men from work
(Turn to page g.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1943-03-11
The Herald. $1.OO a year.

Mr.. Flanagan said he translat-
ed into verse F'to find out if you
can get any more sense out of
the decision in that FORM
Mary's little lamb at last grew up
into an eve,
And gave birth to little lamb,
the natural thing to do.
But the little fellows fleece,
while snow white, was Nigh
ty thin,
And needed more protection from
the bitter cold and wind.
So to the WPB little Mary quick
ly fled,
With plea for canvas to make
the lamb shed.
Being short of canvas caused the
wonder boys no alarm;
They know all the answers; solve
all problems without harm.
why, Mary" they replied your
claim is entirely without
reason,
Go tell the foolish little eve to
change her lambing season"
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1943-03-11
ANNOUNCING YOUNG BILL

Sgt, and Mrs. Bill French an
nounce the arrival of a baby boy
at their home at Umatilla, Fla,
on Tuesday of this week.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-02
So That More Children
Can Play.

Asst Saturday saw the close of the 1913 Mile o Dimes
l. campaign drive sponsored annually by radio sta
ton WHlYZ and The Detroit Times to raise funds with
which 10 battle nfantle paralysis
Accentuated by wartime's ever-present threat OF
epidemic disease this years campaign was more Impor
tant than preceding drives And-thanks to the gener
GUS spirit of Detroiters-it was successful.
Heavy SHOWS and low temperatures did little to help
the drive Yet Detroiters by the hundreds stopped on
windy Woodward avenue, unbuttoned their coats and
brought out dimes and dollars for the milk bottles in the
Grand Circus Park booth.
XVIONENS organizations helped swell the fund with
w card parties and social functions. The Defense
Streamliners offered IS city-wide parties Detroits
boWlers men and women alike gave more generously
than in the past.
All this so that more children play, so that more
braces may be discarded and wheel chairs empted
The Detroit Times is apprecative of the opportunity
to take part this worthy program and proud of the
chance to do its part.
This newspaper also is than grateful to those
thousands of Detroers who made the Mile o Dimes
campaign such outstanding success. Such worthy
citizens may always be counted upon to do their part
in peacetime wartime.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-02
March Of Events
BY BENJAMIN DeCasseres
sTIONS and answers:

QUESTIONS and answers: .
" Are we being taxed for
war and revenue purposes or to
put over ball-and-chain New
Deal socialism?
If bureaucrat with a stroke
Of his pen can tell you that it is
crime to make more than $25,-
600 a year net, why can't he
with a stroke of the pen decree
it a crime to make over 81, 500
year?
Are you a mind reader? OF
course you are. You know ex-
actly what in back of the heads
of all radical New Dealers. If
your clairvoyant powers fail, ask
the editor of the Daily Worker,
official Communist organ of
America. Like granddad, He
knows"
Can Wendell Willkie settle
all problems that have cursed
mankind?
Speaking OF the talented boy
orator of Rushville, what utility
statesman can place the greatest
number of words around a hole
where an idea ought to be?
T,HE sneaking game that is
l. being played by the prohibi-
tionists and their pals, the anti
tobacco bluenoses, was brought
to heel recently by courageous
DR.. James A. Cannon, medical
member of the board of educa-
ton of the District Of Columbia,
when he exposed a proposed
course in the district schools
which would tend to give
students the impression that one
drink of intoxicating liquor
would ruin their stomachs for
ever" and that one cigaret would
give them "duodenal ulcers"
Doctor Cannon said he uses
both alcohol and tobacco moder-
ately and that 95 per cent of the
people in the country do like
wise.
why" he exclaimed. ait not
only prolongs life, but makes 1t
more enjoyable.
cit helps digestion and I'M
proves q persons outlook on
life"
The onslaught on the boards
action by Doctor Cannon caused
the board to revise its language.
Which shows it only requires a
stand and a show to fight to
bowl over the black = hated
enemies of our friendly pleas
ures. These ethical" totalitari-
ans hate pleasure of all kinds,
which recalls what Lord Ma
caulay said:
"The Puritan hated bear
batting not because IL gave pain
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-02
Read
Mind?

to the bear, but because 1t gave
pleasure to the spectators"
Salute to Doctor Cannon!
ERNEST HEMINGWAY, the
- leader of the hairy-chested
school of writing. says in Men
at War" (Crown), a fat collec-
ton of war stories from David's
war with Goliath TO Wake Is
land, that there are no worse
things to be gone through today
than men have gone through
before"
True enough from a purely
abstract standpoint. But, like
first love and the first Souse,
war is brand new experience
for the youth who is in battle
for the first time.
You cannot tighten the terror
and grief Of mother seeing her
child bombed to shreds in War
saw by reminding her that
Alexander the Great put every
human being to the sword in
Thebes $500 years ago.
IF YOU had always lived under
Il Niagara Falls you'd sleep like
a baby so long as the mighty
roar of the falls continued. But
if the falls suddenly went silent
you'd have insomnia.
And you've heard of the fellow
who works in a boiler factory
who couldn't sleep in his home.
He had to have a hellofaracket
to put him to sleep. Such Is the
force of habit and the power of
suggestion.
Those few words were inspired
by a recent demonstration of
hypnotism in New York in which
soldiers were shown how TO Sc
cure a sound sleep with heavy
artillery barrage going on over
head.
There Is no reason why the
mind, the nerves, the conscious
ness of humans cannot be dis
ciplined 10 do the work of the
will as well as the body.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-02
.ayne Should Stand Firm

THE under consideration i'll Lansing to limit
Wayne County to rs seats in the Michigan House of
Representatives is fatty unconstitutional.
is dishonest too because it is barefaced attempt
to bride Wayne legislators with few extra seats we'll
under the 80 due under the state constitution and thus
make them party to act of notification which would
ruin all chances for legal representation for at least
generation
Certainly Wayne has not enough votes to beat
the fraudulent BILL and almost certainly it lacks sufficient
influence to sway outsate legislators from amming it
through
There is nothing left for Wayne legislators but to
vote against it TO a Any other would be
compromise of the most subservient type.
Let the Wayne delegation vote against il unanimously
and go down to glorious defeat
Otherwise they will be falling for a smart dodge and
badly damaging the position of Wayne County in future
fights for just and legal legislative representation
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-02

Mr.. Roosevelt's economic apple
cart is upset and initiation grips
this country. Union wages can
never go up fast enough to
meet that pinch.
Green may have the sense and
ability to show his boys that
tn e ir kind of representative
selfishness will dig the grave of
labor in times like these. But
beneath him in the AFL are
smouldering the same fires
which sent John Lewis out in
front. and caused Murray to fol-
low him.
Furthermore, Mr.. Lewis Is
likely to get some anthracite
increase. He can show that
WLB has not kept very re-
ligiously to its own formula.
Only the other day the board
granted another 81 a day in
crease to metal miners, making
their jump somewhere near so
per cent. This was done at the
recommendation of manpowerist
McNutt, who could find no other
means of keeping men at work
in that unpleasant. but vitality
necessary occupation.
A S WLB well knows, men cam
"A not be frozen into the SINH
larly hard job of coal mining.
Furthermore, the operators want
a two-year contract out of
Lewis, and may be willing to let
the public pay for it. They like
long contracts with Lewis be-
cause he keeps them, whereas
the radical CIO Auto Workers
and some other unions have a
reputation for walking out from
contracts and seeking increases
whenever they feel like ii.
One current such case is that
of the New York Dress Makers
Union, an affiliate of the Inter-
national Ladies Garment Work.
ers. Last week they Jumped a
contract extending to 1914, and,
IN a strike, demanded a wage
increase.
Labor leadership, playing poll
tics, seems likely to create
situation that no one here may
be able to stop.
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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-02
Deserved Recognition

7 RNEST c. HARRIS assumes his duties resident
L president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
today
1t marks than just much deserved promotion
for who has been credit to Detroits financial
community is a landmark in this cty's financial
progress.
For much too long, Detroit has been forced to rely
upon the facilities of a branch office of the Federal
Reserve Bank all important decisions being made in
Chicago.
It was handicap not warranted by the important
position hold in the industrial and financial setup of
this nation With the advent of Detroit became the
very hub of the armament supply organization and the
situation became even more aggravated.
DETROTTS banks were handicapped and Detroit firms
II were at disadvantage in financial transactions Even
purchasers of bonds suffered in that these bonds
cleared through the Chicago main office
With Mr. Harris appointment the situation stands
corrected.
The Detroit branch is virtually autonomous
unit and for all practical purposes it will function on
basis comparable to any of the II reserve banks
This paper wishes to congratulate Mr.. Harris on his
and very important job and Detroit on the belaed
recognition of its financial Importance in the national
picture.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-02
An Affront to the Police

THE attitude of the Detroit Police Department about
its members joining fraerna organizations is reason
ably clear Police authorities don't how many such
outfits policemen join so long as membership doesn't
interfere with their primary duty, which guarding the
peace and security of Detroit and its citizens
There is no indication that Detroit policemen now or
In the past have held aation in any extra currcuar
organization, above their obligation policemen,
despite current hubbub to the contrary.
Habitual viewers with alarm might remember that
the present of the Detroit police must be loyal
and enthusiastic have wthstood the shocking scandals
that rocked the department the last few years After
the relentless inquiry of the Ferguson grand jury
the fact that policeman walks his beat is proof that he
Is good and true policeman.
It is affront to hint hastily that he conemplates
sinister design just because he wants to join lodge
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-02
Politics Seer
In Unions Plea
For Pay Jump
Congress Getting Set
TO Cut Privileges
BY PAUL MALL0N

WASHINGTON, Feb. 2.-If
W you did not see il, you
would not believe the unions are
getting ready TO campaign for
another wage increase beyond
the Is per cent Mr.. Roosevelt
granted these privileged work.
erS.
They indicate openly, how
ever. that they want TO upset
the loosely assembled economic
applicant (chiefly the Little
Steel" formula) which the Presi-
dent erected against initiation.
Congressman are convinced
the reason for the campaign is
that labor is out to offset the
income taxes now reaching down
into It's class of workers for the
first time in history.
CONGRESS is getting ready to
~ diminish some few of the
extreme special privileges
granted labor unions beyond
other citizens or groups by this
labor government.
The House judiciary commit
tee has just reported a bill to
remove the exemption of unions
from the federal anti-racketeer-
ing laws.
No effort has yet been made
to make the unions pay taxes,
or submit their finances to in
spection, but Congress might
remove their exemption from the
antitrust laws which now apply
even TO the American Medical
Association.
The labor leaders may be
starting this wage drive in order
to conduct a fight of their own,
rather than to meet defensively
the congressional drive to re-
move one or two of their special
extra legal privileges.
THE Clio outcast, John Lewis,
Il made il very clear. at the
recent anthracite hearings be-
fore the War Labor Board, that
he would demand the terrific
increase of So a day for his res
tive hard coal boys when the
new contract comes up this next
month-Mr. Roosevelt's Little
Steel formula to the contrary,
Notwithstanding.
The Roosevelt formula would
allow the anthracite miners
only a 5 per cent increase, and
the bituminous miners none at
all.
Only a few days after Lewis
decided to assault the Little
Steel formula, CLOS Phil Muir
ray announced he would call an
executive committee meeting
here early this month to formu-
late similar demands for his
crowd.
The leaders have been getting
practically everything they
wanted. quietly, piece by piece,
from the war Labor Board.
Maintenance of membership
contracts have been handed out
right and left, establishing prac-
tically closed shops, which
suited the union bosses per-
fectly. but did nothing for the
workers.
THEY see only that they must
Il face a cost of living which
has increased 22.1 per cent since
the war began department of
labor figures issued January 29)
with a Is per cent wage in
crease. They figure that they are
about Z per cent behind thardly
enough to raise a fuss about in
times of national sacrifices, but
they are going iO.
Murray was not going to let
Lewis get away with the politi-
cal intra-union popularity of as
Stunning such leadership, without
getting in on the play himself.
Bill Green's AFL has kept
relatively quiet, and he might
be smart enough to know that
the temporary advantage of an
other z per cent increase is
nothing compared with the dam
400 tho Uorker will cIffer If