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Evening star., 1944-03-26
Boy, ID, Admits Beating
Girls, 9 and 6, to Deoth

ALCOLU, S. c., Mar. 25.-Sherif1
H. S. Newman announced today
that 14-year-old youth had ad-
mitted beating to death two small
girls whose bodies were found about
dawn in ditch near a lumber plant
in this Clarendon County town.
Sheriff Newman said the youth
was George Junius. The sheriff
reported that Junius led officers to
hidden piece of iron, which, he
was quoted as saying, he used tc
kill the children.
The victims were Betty June Bin
nicker, 9, and Mary Emma Thames
6, who left their homes late yes
terday to pick flowers.
Evening star., 1944-03-26
Cut in 0PA Powers
Reported Approved
By Smith Committee
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press. tt.
The Smith Committee tenta-
lively has decided to recommend
legislation sharply curtailing
powers of the Office of Price Ad-
ministration, informed sources
said yesterday.
The House group, headed by Rep
resentative Smith, Democrat, of Vir-
ginia, has been investigating wheth-
er Federal agencies have assumed
powers not granted to them. 1t will
meet Tuesday to act finally on the
proposed restrictions on OPA.
Informed sources said the pro-
posed legislation would direct that:
Alleged violations OF the Price
Control Act shall be tried in Fed
eral District Courts.
Local rent ceiling adjustments be
made where ar injustice is being
done or where there has been an in
crease In taxes or operating costs.
In establishing maximum prices
OF commodities, the price admins
traitor shall adopt prices prevailing
between October / and October Is,
l941, or If there is no prevailing
price for a given commodity in that
period, then for the nearest two
weeks to those dates.
The administrator have no au-
thority to demand books, records
or documents or of any information
for any period before January /,
1899. 3.
Nothing in the law be construed
to give the administrator the right
to fix a price on any commodity
unless there is evidence that the
price has risen or will rise or to
give him authority to control
profits.
The administrator make adjust
ments of the price schedule where
1t is shown the ceilings have re-
suited in hardships.
The law not be construed as au-
thorizing the administrator to re-
quire grade labelling or standard
ization of any commodity.
Evening star., 1944-03-26

and for liberalism in Government.
He takes the ground that if Presi-
dent Roosevelt and Mr.. Willkie
both are nominated then the Pro-
gressives will be assured of the
kind of national administration they
want whichever wins.
Senator La Toilette is taking no
open part in the campaign. The
belief is, however, he has no love
for Mr.. Willkie. His brother, Col.
Phil La Toilette, former Governor
of Wisconsin, is an aide on the
staff of Gen. Macarthur. Whether
this will help the Macarthur candi-
dacy here remains to be seen. Some
of the Macarthur people have hoped
Col. La Toilette would come into
the State during the campaign, but
Army regulations would forbid his
taking any part in politics, if he
did.
In one district only Willkie and
Stassen delegates are entered. Mr..
Willkie spent several days there,
determed to win its two delegates.
One district, the ninth, bordering
on Minnesota, where Condr. Stas-
sen has real strength, is without
Stassen delegates. The filing foI
Stassen delegates there reached
Madison too late. Mr.. Willkie and
Gen. Macarthur both have two
delegate candidates in the district
and Gov. Dewey, one. The Stassen
petitions were to be carried to
Madison by automobile. A sleet
storm developed and the petitions
were sent by mail The man who
was to have deliverd them by auto
mobile reached Madison in plenty
Of time, but the mailed petitions
failed to show up until the day after
the filing deadline.
Evening star., 1944-03-26
Red Cross
Continued From First Page)

cause it should be done-and it will
be DONE" H. L. Rust, vice chairman
of the campaign, told volunteer
booth workers at a rally yesterday.
Randolph G. Bishop, campaign di-
rector, warned the volunteer work
ers who will open the booths fol-
business tomorrow and continue
through April l that 1--WE have only
short time to go long distance
to meet the District quota" He
urged the volunteers to give en-
couragement to people to give ade-
quate gifts"
mo contribution is too small for
you to pick up" Mrs. Alan Tappan,
chairman of the booths division, told
the workers.
Technical Sergt. John Gardiner,
Army Air Forces, radio operator on
a Flying Fortress, who was taken
prisoner by the Germans when his
ship was forced down over the
Bay of Biscay, told the Red Cross
volunteers that many of the boys
in the prison camp could not have
survived If it had not been for the
food parcels sent weekly by the
Red Cross.
They were our blood plasma, !"
he declared.
Corpl. Herbert Brasington, ma
chlne-gunner, who was given five
blood transfusions for injuries he
received in the Tunisian campaign,
yesterday credited the Red Cross
with saving his life. He particularly
praised the work of the Red Cross in
the base hospitals.
Miss Mary K Browne, former ten
mis- and golf star, who recently re-
turned from the Pacific, where she
served as Red Cross canteen service
supervisor, said that during the, II
months she served down under"
her Red Gross unit served 10000
meals. a. month to servicemen.i4
S124,000,000 Contributed
Meanwhile, Red Gross national
headquarters reported that the Ma
ton as a whole was this year sur
passing its record for 1943. Ap-
proximately s124,0O0,O00 was raised
throughout the country in the first
% days while it took 43 days last
year to raise s125 100000. The ma
tional goal Is 5000, O,0o0, 900. N sa
1t was announced yesterday that
the Bouquet Shop, 1872 Seventeenth
street NV, had donated one days
proceeds of $13745 to the fund
drive in appreciation of the service
rendered to E. c. Haynes, owner of
the shop, who is now in the Navy.
Last July when Mr.. Haynes was
at naval training school, he re-
ceived word that his mother was
seriously ILL., Through the Red
Cross, he obtained a furlough and
within an hour after he had heard
of the illness he was on his way
home. His mother died, and the
Red Cross arranged for an ex-
tension of his furlough. The shop
is now being operated by his father
and his wife.
Evening star., 1944-03-26
Burmu
Continued From First Page

gagements in progress on both sides
of the -Imphal road, with the
Japanese making some progress
southeast Of Imphal where their
closest patrols previously were re-
ported 38 miles from that British
base for operations in Burma. AL
lied resistance was increasing.
(The Japanese offensive into
India on the Burma frontier cut
the road to the rear of an Amer
lean Field Service medical unit
attached to British troops, and
some of the members barely es-
capped while under snipers' fire,
1t John Patrick, an officer of the
service, informed his New York
headquarters in a message from
Bombay
Stiff Fighting in, Northeast.
Stiff fighting was reported on the
northeastern approach where some
japanese units made further pro-
gress in the Somra hill tracts near
Ukhrul. but one unit was forced to
withdraw.
To the south, where the last re-
ports put the Japanese attackers 80
miles from Imphal, British troops
pressed further attacks against
against Japanese road blocks across
the road leading to Tiddim and one
was wiped out. Yesterdays COM
munique reported three of these road
blocks eliminated.
Another new development in the
campaign was the announcement
that two days ago heavy bombers
had made their first low-level as
sault on section of the Burma
Siam" railway. This was the first
disclosure that the Japanese have
linked conquered Burma and oc-
cupied Thailand (Siam) with a rail
line.
Previously there had been reports
that the Japanese had been working
feverishly to build a railroad across
Thailand in order to tie South China
seaports by an internal route with
Burma. This would enable them to
supply the Burma front without
risking their dwindling shipping on
the dangerous route around Singa-
pore.
A communique from 1t. Gen
Joseph w. Stillwell's headquarters
said American and Chinese forces
were making slow but steady
progress down the Mogaung Valley
Allied troops were reported push
ing ahead on Myitkyina, with British
Commando forces of Gurkha and
Kachin levies chasing the Japanese
who had fired and abandoned
Maihtonghka, Is miles south of
Sumprabum.
In the Arakan sector to the south
where the British objective is the
capture of Akyab, the British an
nounced they had taken an impor-
tant hill position in the tunnels to
the north of the Maungdaw-B -Buthe-
daung road.
The heavy bomber assault on
the "Burma-Siam" railway, the COM
munique said, destroyed two bridges
and locomotive, probably destroyed
five bridges and damaged two more
One train was derailed and another
damaged.
Large forces of Allied fighters
and light bombers continued their
assaults yesterday on enemy COM
munications, stores and supply COL
umns through the entire Burma
area. Raj fighters destroyed Is
river craft.
Evening star., 1944-03-26
Change in Leadership
Opposed by BarkIey
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHARLESTON, w. Va, Mar. Is
Senate Majority Leader Barkley
in a somewhat cryptic statement
declared tonight that ut is unnec-
essary to emphasize the need fol
continuity of leadership in the wal
and in the peace that is to follow.
Senator Barkley, whose recent
break and reconciliation with Presi-
dent Roosevelt after a veto of the
new tax bill was political sensa-
ton, spoke at Jefferson dinner
sponsored by West Virginia Demo-
Gratis.
Senator Barkley noted there had
been occasional differences of opin-
ion between executive and leigs-
lative branches on domestic issues
but ION the whole, the President has
received the cordial support OF
Congress.
The preparation for war and total
mobilization had to be guided by
somebody" he said, land the Demo-
cratic party was in position of re-
sponsibility because the people chose
that 1t should be that way.
They made that decision in spite
OF a tradition that was century
and half old the third term) and
they made it because we were in the
shadow of the very conflict that pre-
cipitated Pearl Harbor.
THE President has utilized all the
forces and elements in this country
in mobilizing the great momentum
of the American effort and Congress
has supported him in that effort to
a greater extent than was ever true
before" he said.
The Kentuckian drew laughter
and cheers when he jocularly men,
toned the little ruckus we had over
a tax bill recently, but don't take
that ruckus too seriously. Any
family that can't have little quar-
rel now and then isn't worth much
anyway. Any time one can quarrel
with the President we have democ-
racy."
"Everything's all right now, and
don't you forget It,"
Evening star., 1944-03-26
Hannegan Challenges
Republicans 10 Brinq
Candidates Into Open
BY the Associated Press.

BOSTON, Mar. rs. - Chairman
Robert E. Hannegan of the Demo-
cratic National Committee tonight
challenged the Republican party to
bring its prospective presidential
nominees out into the open to dis
cuss current questions.
In obvious reference to Gov.
Thomas E. Dewey of New York,
Mr.. Hannegan told Jackson Day
banquet there have been predictions
the COP will nominate man who
is not even candidate in the party
primaries, one who is "smirking and
lurking and lodging behind the
pretense that he is not candidate
for the presidency, and hence has
no obligation to discuss the funda-
mental problems which lie before
the American people"
/. Urges Comparison.
IF Republican leaders plan to
put over such a candidate" he
added, then we propose to turn on
the searchlight of truth so that
all may know their plans.
"And so tonight, I challenge the
Republican party to take the
public into its confidence" -
Mr.. Hannegan also dared Republic
can spokesmen to compare the ad-
ministration of this huge war en-
terprise by President Roosevelt to
their own previous IL years in
Office"
Charges Arrogance"
Saying Chairman Harrison E.
Spangler Of the Republican Ma
tional Committee recently made
the cynical observation that his
party can win the presidency with
anybody" he continued:
This. I submit, is arrogance. It
is libel on our citizenry. -
The American people just don't
want that type of man for Presi-
dent. They need statesman and
a leader. They don't want a figure
head, front-porch candidate,
picked and polished by a small
group of party leaders. They don't
want an inexperienced, untested
pretender to national leadership"
Mr.. Hannegan paid tribute to Rep
resentative Mccormack and Sena-
tor Walsh of Massachusetts. re-
ferring to Senator Walsh, a frequent
administration critic, as a party
stalwart for more than a genera
ton" who had played an important
role in building up the Nations war
time Navy as chairman of the SEN
ate Naval Affairs Committee.
Evening star., 1944-03-26
Lindberg'l or Nye Favored
As Third Party Candidate
By the Associated Press.

Ss Inc hSsOCldteO FIeSk.
ST. LOUIS, Mar. 25.-Gerald L. K
Smith, national director of the
America First Committee, was given
q voice vote authorization by 1000
persons attending a Midwestern
rally tonight to choose third party
presidential candidate.
Mr.. Smith said he and his associ-
ates favor Charles A. Lindbergh or
Senator Nye, Republican, of North
Dakota.
The rally was described by Mr.
Smith as a move to measure the
temperament of the people in the
center of the country Mr.. Smith
said his group would offer a candi-
date if President Roosevelt and
Wendell Willkie were the Demo-
cratic and Republican candidates.
Evening star., 1944-03-26
Gov. Adkins Seeks Seat
Of Senator Curuwuy
By the Associated Press.

By the ASSOCIATED Press.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark, Mar. 49,
Gov. Homer M. Adkins tonight an
nounced that he would be a candi-
date for nomination as United
States Senator in next summers
Democratic primaries.
His announcement was believed
to have completed the field seeking
= the post of Senator Caraway.
Evening star., 1944-03-26
Frank Bucks Father Dies

SAN ANGELO, Tex, Mar. "a (P).-
Howard Buck, 95, father of Frank
Buck of Bring En- Back Alive"
fame, died today.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-06-08
LONZA NEWS

Estus Musick and family and
Ferd MCGOWAN and family at
tended church at Backbone Ridge
Sunday.
Drake Sluss spent the week
end with homefolks.
Sunday visitors at the home OF
S. P. Cochran were: Mrs. Nora
Cochran Ernest Hill, James Stan
ley, Mr.. and Mrs. Ed Hunt and
small son, Clyde Amos, Ann Null
Inns and Joyce Fay and Trulah
Musick.
Several children of this COM
munfsy are attending Bible
school at Davis this week.
Mack Long and family attend
ed church at Caney Ridge Sun
day.
Mrs. Evin Musick is visiting
her sister, Mrs. Marvin Mullins,
this week.
Mack Price spent Saturday
night with Layton Musick.
Mrs. Bonnie Rose and children
and Mrs. Ethyl Hall spent Sun
day with Mrs. Stephen Rose.
Guy Amos visited his uncle,
Lonnie Musick, Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Evins Musick
and son visited S. P. Cochran and
family Saturday evening.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-06-08

phia Brumit and Mrs. Henry
Sykes attended the memorial ser
vices held for Jack Stanley on
Brush Creek Sunday.
Mrs. Ernest Bowman and Az
onell Fleming spent the week.
end at Stratton.
Eva and Ray Owens of TiviS
spent Sunday night at the home
of Clint Fleming.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-06-08
TARPON News

Pfc. Clarence Sykes was home
last week due to the illness OF
his wife. He is stationed at North
Carolina.
Milton Owens, of the navy,
called at the home of A. D. Hol-
brook last Thursday afternoon.
Gerald Epling, of the army,
stopped here Friday.
Misses Lillian Price and Mil
dred Holbrook are attending a
two-week's Bible School near
Pikeville, Ky.
Gray Deel, of the army, stop
ped here one day last week to
see his aunt, Polly Ann Mullins.
Uncle Jim Stallard, of Coe-
burn, has been visiting his son,
Bee Stallard, here.
Brady Sutherland andPalmer
Mullins left last week for the
navy.
Uncle Peter Reedy spent Fri
day night with Bryce Sykes.
Pvt. Odney Mullins is home
this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. D. Holbrook
and daughter Kathleen, and Rev.
Alva Dingus and Dan Roberts
went to McRoberts, KY, to
church Saturday.
Grady Phillips, of Washington,
D. c., was here over the week
end. His two children went back
with him.
MIR. and Mrs. A. D. 1olbrook
and daughters were visiting rel
atives in Dante Sunday.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-06-08
had. He hasn't found the cause of
her death but hopes to later.
ORDER OF PUBLICATION

VIRGINIA: In the Clerks Office
Of the Circuit Court of the
County of Dickinson, on the
25th day OF May, 1914.
James Edmonds, Complainant
against
Alice Edmonds Defendant
The object of this suit is to
obtain for the complainant from
the defendant an absolute di-
vorce on the grounds of desertion.
And affidavit having been
made and filed that the defend
ant, Alice Edmonds, is not resi-
dent of the State of Virginia, it
is ordered that she do appear
here within 10 days after due
publication hereof, and do what
may be necessary to protect her
interest in this suit. And it is
further ordered that copy here
Of be published once a week for
four successive weeks in the
Dickinson Herald and that
copy be posted at the front door
Of the court house of this county
on or before the first June rules,
1914.
A copy-Teste:
E. B. Stanley, Clerk
BY Lee Stanley D. C.
A M .Phipps p q (June LAO
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-06-08
RHODE Branch

(Too late for last weekly
Mrs. Wanda Turner is i'll with
measles this week.
Mrs. Claude Compton announ-
ces the arrival of baby girl
named Dorothy on May %.
Claude Compton was given a
few days leave to come home
and see his new baby.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dewey Lyall,
MIR. and Mrs. VIM. Arlington, Ru-
raj Fuller and family, and Henry
Davis and family, and Slant
Turner and family enjoyed a pic
mic at Sand Lick Sunday.
Mrs. Ida Edwards left for
Kingsport, where she is employ
ed, Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dewey LyaD
spent Monday with Slant Turner
and family.
Jack Gentry, of the army, sta
toned in California, has won 2
medals for craftsmanship.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charlie Turner
and Ebert Turner and family
visited Bryce Wars on Prater
Sunday.
Susie Perrigan visited her
mother, Hettie Turner, Saturday.
Harold Turner and wife visit
ed homefolks last week.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-06-08
FLEMINGTOWN NEWS

(Too late for last Week)
Truman Fleming, of the navy,
was home on three-day leave
last weekend.
Holland Fleming and family
spent Sunday with Mrs Fleming's
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Orville
Meade of Brush Creek.
Farley Moore, employed in
Kentucky, spent the weekend
with his family here.
Mrs. Brown Porter and child
rem, from Kentucky, are spend
ing few days with relatives.
Catherine Branham ISIS pending
a few days with her father at
Skeetrock.
Mrs. Belle Mullins, Mrs. Del
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-06-08
SKEETROCK NEWS

Jim Moore and family visited
Mr.. and Mrs. George Moore Sun
day.
Versie Mullins spent Saturday
night with Igene Rose.
Mrs. Mary and Exile Farmer
visited Mrs. Elijah Sluss Sunday.
Misses Nettie and Allene Sluss
spent Saturday night with Mr..
and Mrs. Kenneth Rose.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-06-08

Harding Yates is home on fur
Tough this week.
Tommy Hill and family have
recently moved to their new
home.
Allen Musick and Ayers Rose
were business visitors in Clint
wood last week.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-06-08
FREEZING ITEMS

Mr.. and Mrs. John Adkins
have been helping Harrison Null
Inns with his farm work this
week.
Rev. Rife and many others Wis
tied Aunt Mary Vanover this
week.
A large crowd attended SER
vices at Pine Creek Saturday
night and Sunday. Preachers
were Elders Alden Carico, Wal
ter Hughes, Alex Thompson and
Dingus.
Mrs. Grace Swinda1l spent Sun
day night with her father here.
The old faithful mail carrier,
Grant Mullins, and his, ever low
ing wife spent Saturday night
with Mr.. and Mrs, Jess Reed of
Shelby Gap, KY.
Willard Mullins had the mis-
fortune to lose the only cow he
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-06-08
ORDER OF PUBLICATION
VIRGINIA.: In the Clerks Office
of the Circuit Court OF the
County Of Dickinson, on the
18th day Of May, 1914

OOUIlLy OF OlCAGIBOl1, OkA VAC
18th day Of May, 1914
Hansel T. Owens, Complainant
against
Gladys B. Owens, Defendant
The object of this suit 10 to OBJ
tain for the complainant from
the defendant a divorce, on the
grounds Of desertion.
And affidavit having been
made and filed that the defend
ant. Gldays B. Owens, 10 not res
ident Of the state OF Virginia, il
10 ordered that she do appear
here within 10 days after due
publication hereof and do what
may be necessary to protect her
interest in this suit. And it 10
further ordered that copy here
Of be published once a week for
four successive weeks in the
Dickinson Herald and that a
copy be posted at the front door
Of the court house Of this county
On Or before the. LIST June rules,
1914.
A copy-Teste:
E. B. Stanley Clerk,
BY Lee Stanley D. G..
A. M. Phipps p. q. (May 18-44)
Evening star., 1944-08-04
Bio Sordine Schools SIGHTED

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 3 ga
bumper sardine catch was predicted
by the Navy today on the basis lof
reports from blimps which hunt
submarines and spot fish schools on
patrols Oh the Pacific Coast.
Evening star., 1944-08-04
-
Port of Brest Is Richest Prize
OF Brittany Military Detectives

has a row Of Channel ports barely
100 miles from Ensland-St. Malo,
Dinan st. Brieuc, Morlaix and Ros-
coff The Breton sailor Jacques
Cartier set out to explore Canada's 5
coast from st. Malo in 1885.
The name Brittany tBretagne)
came with King Arthur's refugee
people from England Is centuries
ago. AS a governmental unit, Brit
tany disappeared from French maps
after the revolution, when it was
divided into five departments, which
now are reunited into q single prov
ince of 1880 square miles, with
more than 5000, 900 inhabitants.
This northwesternmost part of
France has some of the country's
most picturesque scenery The 11th
century church and 18th century
castle OF Mont st. Michel are famous
architecturally and historically.
Prehistoric monuments of a van
ished race-Cromlechs. Menhirs and
Dolmens-draw visitors to such
towns as Carnac, Col and Loo
mariaquer
Fishing is the traditional occupa-
ton of the Bretons, who sail for sar-
dimes in the Bay of Biscay and voy-
age for cod to the waters Of Iceland
and Newfoundland. Heavy rains
and mild winters produce fine pas
ture lands and market gardens for
vegetables normally shipped to Eng
land.