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Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-07-27
ATHLETES FOOT GERM
L Made This Overnight Test

Requires a powerful penetrat-
ing fungicide. Many Remedies
are not strong enough. I got 35c
worth TE-OL solution. Made
with 90 per cent alcohol, it PEN
ETRATES. Reaches more germs.
Apply full strength for itchy,
sweaty or smelly feet. You can
get your 35c back next morning
from any druggist if not pleased.
Locally at Skeen's Drug, Clint
wood, Va. CT July)
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-07-27
FARM FOR SALE

I4-acre farm, three-room dwell
ing and good out buildings. Four
miles from Nora, Va, on oCe-
burn road. Good location for
future coal mining on Open Fork.
Priced low. See CLINTON ROSE,
Mcclure, Va. (2t-pd)
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-07-27

WANTED - Partner, w i III
equipment for radio repair shop.
Have location, plenty business.
Write or see CT. COLLEY, Clint
wood, Va.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-07-27

See Grady Stone, Clintwood, Va.
SOC soc soc soc SOC soc
soc LOST RATION BOOKS soc
soc SOC SOC soc SOC soc
It is required by the OPA that
these notices be run for two
weeks. Our charges for this SER
vice is SOC, in advance.
LOST-Kerosene ration book.
If found please return to Kedric
TIibbitts, Georges Fork, Va. (Cost
of publication 50c.-
LOST-One No. 4 ration book.
If found please return to Snoda
Mullins, Isom, Va.
LOST-One kerosene ration
book. If found please return to
Mrs. j. L. Hale, Darwin, Va.
LOST-Ration book 3 and 4,
issued to the following persons:
Frank, Clara B., Inez, Bernice,
Clara NJ. Delouise j., Elouise and
Mary Alice White. Please return
to them at Trammel, Va.
LOST-Kerosene ration book.
If found, please return to Ira
Stout, Nealy Ridge Va.
LOST-Two No. 8 ration books
issued to Kermit Greene and Oar
rel Greene. Please return to
them at Stratton. Va.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-07-27

Sewing Machine Wanted
Wanted, one good second hand
Sewing Machine. Singer prefer
red. See or write to Otis Hill
Clinchco, Va.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-07-27
COOK WANTED

Wanted-Good cook for the
Colonial Grill. Middle aged Wo-
man without family preferred.
See Grady Stone, Clintwood, Va.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-07-27

In us to provide the material to do
the job.
It means buying War Bonds.
And a very good buy they are, too.
For every three dollars we invest
in War Bonds, Uncle Sam promises
four back in ten years. There's no
more honorable promise in the world!
Buy War Bonds. They're WON
derful investment you as well
as America!
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-07-27

CHINESE SOLDIERS have battle
cry: "Gung- Ho!" Literally trans
lated, means working together!"
Tn Americanese, it means Teamwork.
And Teamwork is a word every
American understandable peace
time as in war. In this war, it means
perfect understanding among our
Government, our service men, our
home front.
It means our confidence in our
fighters ability. It means their faith
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-07-27

AVON b. SYKES,-Clintwood, Va.
F. H. YORKOFF M. D.-Clintw God, Va.
CLINCHCO CAFE - Clinchco, Va
DIR. T. c. SUTHERLAND, Haysi Va.
BREAKS MOTOR CO., Inc.-Ha ysi Va.
HANOVER g. ANDERSON GARAGE-Clintwood Va.
COvEY'S RESTAURANT eli nchco Va.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-04
Bricker Demands
Reduction in
Government Costs

ST. LOUIS, Mo-, Oct. 4. CUP)-
Gov. John W. Bricker of Ohio, Re-
publican presidential candi-
date, rolled into this baseball crazy
city Wednesday determined to give
CIO Political Action Committee
Chairman Sidney Hillman "the hid
ing of the campaign in a major
speech
Last night at Centralia, Illinois,
Bricker assailed the New Deal for
what he said was its fiscal policy of
spend, waste, borrow and tax" In
that speech the Ohioan proposed
as a Republican substitute pest
war tax based on economy, sim
plicity and stability. His program,
he said, offered one of the best
means of promoting individual pros
perity.
His proposed tax plan:
% Simplified tax law and regu-
lationS: 90 stability of tax laws so
that business could make plans for
the future without fear of constant
change; (3) adherence to the prin-
ciple that taxation is primarily to
raise revenue and not to promote
radical schemes: "a tax measures
Continued on Pg. 8, Col. %
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-04
Truman Backs
AII-Congress

WASHINGTON, Oct. 4. CUP)-
Demands of several congresSmer
that treaty ratification should bt
oy simple majority vote of botf
nouSeS rather than by tWo-third;
0f the Senate alone had tie un-
qualified support Wednesday Of
5 mater Harry S. Truman, CD, Mis-
-outi. the Democratic vice-presiden-
'ial candidate.
Truman's approval was given
Tuesday Eigt in reply to a question
at an informal address before the
National Womens Press club. He
said, Treaties should be ratified
by both houses of Congress and by
a majority vote, net just by one
house"
Objection to the present require
ment is centered in the lower house
whose members claim they are
closest TO the people and therefore
ehould have voice in ratification
of International agreements.
Truman said that next to winning
the war the most important consid-
Grafton was winning the peace anc
that's why I am anxious to main
tain our present leadership
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-04
Russ Army Joins
Tito Forces in
Belgrade Thrust
Speedy Offensive Aims
To Divide Nazi Units
Struggling in Balkans
Bv HENRY SHAPIRO
United Press Staff Correspondent


MOSCOW, Oct. 4.-The Red Army
linked up with Marshal Tito's Par
tisan forces in Yugcslavia and
surged to within &c miles of Bel
grade from two sides Wednesday in
a fast-breaking offensive to liber-
ate the capital and split the Ger
man armies in the Balkans.
The battle for Belgrade appeared
to lave been joined as tanks and
infantry of Marshal Radon Y. Ma
linovsky's Second Ukrainian Army
spilled out into the YugCslav plains
north. east and southeast of the
capital after preaching its main
outer defenses in the hills ana
mountains along the Romanlan
border.
Front dispatches said Malinoy-
sky's men effected functions on botn
the north and south banks OF the
Danube river with Tito's patrol de-
tachmen.s. who had filter q
through the German lines disguised
as civilians.
The army organ Red Star report
c. that PartisanS and 4ugoslaV
neasants lined Yugoslav mountain
roads. shouting, Long live Stain!
Long live Russia!' and "Lcng Live
Tito!"
With Russian forces swarmlng
across the outer approaches to the
capital and Tito's Partisans harry
ing the enemy's rear communica-
tions. Belgrade's liberation ap-
peared near. It's fall, or the sever
ance of it's trunk railway running
northwest to Munich, would seal the
last practical escape route for per-
haps 100000 Germans in the south
ern Balkans and split them off from
other Nazi forces in Transylvanla,
Hungary and northern YugoslaVla.
Malinovsky's army already has
outflanked Belgrade from the north
and cut all but one of its escape
railways and highways north CT the
Danube with the capture of PetroV-
grad 81 miles above the capital, in
spectacular 48 mile a diva n e
across the Yugoslav border from
last-reported positions in Romanla.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-04
YANk TANKS SMASH way TOWARD RHINl
Dewey Presents
b.Point Plan
To Slash Taxes
COP Candidate Blasts
New Deal Waste and
EXtravagant Practices

ALBANY, Oct. 4. (UP)-Thomas
E. Dewey continued his attack on
the Roosevelt administration Wed
nesday as he placed before the vot-
ers a six-point victory tax program
under which America may once
again live and grow"
The Republican presidential nom
inee proposed the tax revision pro-
gram Tuesday night in a nation
wide radio address from the state
executive mansion-from the same
room Mr.. Roosevelt used as his
study when he was governor.
Assailing waste and extrava-
gance" of the present national ad-
ministration, Dewey said personal
income levies must be lowered and
the nations tax structure simplified
if the country is to prosper in the
postwar era. He said it was far
better" to have low taxes and a
national income of $150,000000 rath-
er than high taxes and $76.000,0 =
900 national income "as we had un-
der the New Deal at its peacetime
best"
The Roosevelt tax policies, he said,
have discouraged business and high
wages and we're responsible for pro-
longing the depression. The highest
New Dealers" he continued, "at last
admit that this administration has
created an impossible condition
which urgently needs repair
The New York governors program
included
1-Revision of personal income
taxes so that man who makes as
little as $11 a week no longer has an
income tax taken out of his pay en-
velope."
2!LoWering of personal income
tax rates to speed recovery along
3-Revision and lowering of in
come taxes on incorporated busi-
nesses until the taxes mo longer act
as drag upon production and a
barrier to jobs"
illumination of all so-called eX-
else or nuisance taxes excepting
those on alcoholic beverages, tobacco
and gasoline.
5-Complete overhauling of our
existing, confused and complicated
tax laws"
6-ESta blishment of consistent,
national tax policy-one directed to-
ward achieving full employment and
rising national income-one that
will assure use of solvent nation
and the ultimate reduction of our
national debt"
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-04
p AMBlINe
~ EpoRTER

Young Ideas
The backyard at the home of Mr..
and Mrs. Art Knutsen in Brawley
was shambles Tuesday night when
the Hi-Y and the Tri-Y boys and
girls engaged in the wholesale
slaughter of nine chickens for a
chicken fry.
De-feathering made the yard look
as though it had been visited by a
snow storm.
What kind of chickens are
these?" Knutsen asked his daugh-
ter, Bernice.
"TheSe are fryers," she explained
as she Wrestled with a dismember-
ing job.
THAT piece looks like an old hen
to me-" he worried. Il hope you
haven't killed some of my laying
hens
"They are all fryers," Bernice in
sisted.
"T'hen where did you get all those
eggs without any shells on them?"
KnutSen demanded.
They're fryers," she snapped.
Wednesday orning Knutsen
Continued on Page 8, Col. .
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-04
Death Summons
Al Smith, 70;
Rose TO Power

NEW YORK, Oct. 4. CUP)-Al-
fred E. Smith, "the Happy Warrior"
who cut leading figure in national
Democratic politics from 1920 until
1882, was four times governor CT
New York state and ran for Presi-
dent in 1928, died at $40 a. m.
Wednesday.
The man in the brown derby who
rose to power and fame from the
poverty of a New York city slum,
took his last breath with a prayer
en- his lips, fully conscious it was
his last, just as the Rev. John Healy,
Ills parish priest entered his room
at the Rockefeller Institute hospi-
tal
His physician, DR.. Raymond P,
Sullivan, came down to the hospital
LOBBY where reporters were waiting
Continued on Pg. 6, Col. -
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-04
Nazl GueriIIas
Plan to Fight
After Army Quits

LONDON, Oct. 4. CUP)-The Of
ficial crgan of the German Elite
SIS guards was reported Wednesday
to have published a dispatch an
nouncing that preparations have
been completed for guerrilla war;
fare in Germany in the event of
the army'S defeat.
The publication, Das SchWarze
Korps, also said that plans call for
the assassination of every German
who cooperates with the Allies.
The periodical, sharply threaten
ing possible collaborators, said that
in event of an Allied victory ANY
official obeying enemy orders will
lie cold and stiff behind his desk;
any German accepting an executive
post will find an open grave behind
him, and any judge who sentences
Germans will swing from the lamp
post in front CT his house"
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-04
Advance Passes
Sieqfried Line
Troops Fan Out
In Open Plain;
Metz Hill Falls

SUPREME HEADQUAR-
TIERS, AEF, Oct. A. (UP)-
Sherman ia n k S clustered
with doughboys charged into
the front lines above Aachen
Wednesday alongside t h e
break-through infantry fan
ming out in the open country
before the Rhine, and to the
south American shock troops
seized a foothold atop the
key Metz outpost at Fort
Driant.
Lieutenant General Court
ney H. Hodges tanks crash
ed through the Siegfried'
line in the Ubach area 10
miles north of Aachen on a
31a mile front for a penetra-e
ton of about two miles, a
First army headquarters dis
patch reported.
Reminiscent of the st. Lo break
through in Normandy, the United
States tanks now are prodding the
hastily thrown up German cefenses
beyond the Siegfried line" United
Press War Correspondent Henry
T. Gorrell reported.
But it still is slow going through
deep mud and a maze of anti-tank
bitches and road blocks recently
thrown up behind the west wall, he
added.
IL TANKS BUSTED
Ten or IL German tanks were
knocked out by U. S. gunners as
the American armor went into ac-
ton.
Enemy resistance appears to be
weakening as the tanks probe the
remaining defenses," Gorrell re-
ported.
The eak-through front now was
about 3la miles long between the
small German towns of Frelenberg,
due south of Geilenkirchen, and
Continued on Page 8, Col. ~
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-04
Fin0I Plans Set
For Chest Drive

Kickoff for the annual War
Chest drive in FL Centro will take
place October 13 .at breakfast for
soliciting committees and their as
sistants, Jerry Robertson, Ell Centre
area chairman, announced Wednes-
day.
"All committee members and
solicitors will pay for their OWN
breakfasts" said AL Missildine, cam
paign manager. The volunteers are
financing themselves SO donors may
be certain 100 per cent of their do
nations go to the fund"
Arrangements for the big drive
were made at meeting in FL Gen.
tro Tuesday night.
All committee heads and their
assistants will meet prior to Octo-
Der 13 to make their own plans and
decide just how they are to pro-
Ceed.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-04
BY UNITED PRESS

The Japanese Domei agency We'd
nesday said the death of seven
japanese rear admirals had been
announced by the Yokosuka naval
station, one of Japans four major
imperial navy yards, which is COM
manded by Admiral NaCkuni Nomu-
la, former navy minister in the
TOTO cabinet.
The Japanese agency in a dis
patch to the controlled press of East
Asia recorded by FEC monitors
identified the dead Officers as:
Kanichi Hagihara. Sorokuro Mo-
rino, Tcsaburo Ogura, Fuji Arima,
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-04

Solicitors or anyone else wanting
to give to the War Chest in Ell Cen
tro may turn their money over to
Russell Haas, finance chairman, at
757 Main street. There will be
someone there to accept money, give
receipts, and enter the reports.
Some changes and additions in
committees were announced at the
meeting Tuesday night.
They we're: Harold Tyler, business
district; D. B. Roberts, associations
and clubs: Chaplain Joseph NJ
Lynch and Lieutenant M. McCabe
armed forces; K. M. StillWell,
branch houses; packing and whole
sale companies, Charles Bramkamp
and w. B. Keller; professional men,
Shields Charlton; utilities, George
Conner; and civil personnel at the
marine station, Russell Sherwood
and Mervin Mccoy.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-04
Browns Capture
Series Opener

were slow in filling. Less than 5000
persons were in the park two hours
before game time.
Scalpers were offering reserved
grandstand and box seats tickets
at cost because of the rain.
The sun was breaking through
intermittently as the Cardinals be-
gan batting practice. The Cardinals
will be the home club for the first
two games an6 also the sixth and
seventh if that many contests are
necessary to decide the best four
out of seven classic.
McOuinn, the Browns fielding
genius at first base, hit home run
off big Mort Cooper in the fourth
inning with one man on base and
Galehouse made those runs stand
up with some more of the clutch
pitching which carried Manager
Luke Sewell's club to their first
American league pennant.
Galehouse was ROBBED of shut
out in the ninth, but the run the
National league champions scored
die not matter for Denny, whose
seasons record of only nine victor
les against 10 defeats belied his per-
formance today.
Browns .........................0 900 200 000-2
Cardinals ........................ 600 900 001-1
Runs batted in - McQuinn 2,
ODea. Two base hits-Marion 2.
Home runs McQuinn. Sacrifice
hitS-Musial. Left on baSeS-BrownS
3, Cardinals 9. Bases on ball off
M. Cooper 3, Galehouse 4. Struck
out by-M. Cooper 4, Galehouse 5,
Donnelly 2. Hits off-M. Cooper 2
in Z, Donnelly 0 in 2. Double plays
-Gutteridge Stephens McQuinn
Winning pitcher-Galehouse. Losing
pitcher-M. Cooper. Umpires-Sears
(N plate, MCGOWAN CA 1st base
Dunn (N) End, Pipgras (A) 3rd
Time-2:05.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-04

ROCKFORD, Ill.,, Oct. a.
OUP)-The American people
have cooperated with the
New Deal in the past four
years only because of deter
mination to cooperate with
everyone to win the war, re-
gardless of. political faith,
Governor Earl Warren, of
California, said Tuesday
night.
But America Cannot re-
main shackled to all the fail
ures that have been made in
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-04
Salt River Water
Users Study Sale

PHOENIX, Ariz., Oct. q. CUP)--
The Salt River Valley Water Users
association Wednesday considered
an offer CT Secretary of the Interior
Harold L. Ickes 10 take over opera
ton of the organizations powe'
generating system.
Under terms CT Ickes proposal
which would be subject to congress
Gional action btf fore cons ummation
the government would assume the
associations $24, 100000 indebted
ness and cancel outstanding federal
taxes. and furnish the association
power fer irrigation and drainage
pumping at 2lA cents a kiloWatt-
hour for a p riod of so years.
Ickes said in making the offer
that Il am convinced it is to the
best interests of both the United
States and the association that an
agreement be consummattd.'
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-04

lie army SlXUn SefVlCe COlIl-
mand procurement unit reported
that survey of the situation short
ly after noon showed eight plants
closed and that at least three 9TH
ers would shut down in the after
noon when parts on hand at assem-
bly, stations become exhausted.
TWO OUTFITS HIT
Six of the closed plants were op-
Grated by the Briggs Manufacture
ing company anG l,>o by the Chrys-
Ter Motor Car company.
At Briggs, 700 workers we're on
strike and 10000 others sent home.
At Chrysler, $50 workers struck
resulting in layoff of $500 others.
The plants produce a wide variety
of essential war goods, including
tank and plane parts.
Other struck plants were those
of the Motor Products company and
L. A. Young Spring and Wire COM
pany.
Threat of walkout at the Ford
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-04

the past" Warren, keynoter
at the COP convention, told
meeting sponsored by the John
Ericsson Republican League OF IL
linois.
I'VE cannot afford longer to have
saddled on us the internal feuds
that have developed in an admin
istration which is now torn with
dissension and is only being held
together for this election by the
DOMINATION of one man-an ad-
ministration that is no longer guild
ed by principles that are agreeable
to its major factions, but rather by
the irreconciliable purposes of the
academic planners, bureaucratic
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-04
Death Hits Four
Jdp AdmiruIs

Shizuo AkaSaWa, Ryo Mori and
Seiko Mikumoto.
The dispatch gave no details as to
how the high-ranking naval Off
GERS met their deaths nor whether
they had been killed at the yard,
about 30 airline miles from Tokyo
where warships and naval auxil-
iaries CT all types and sizes are built
for the japanese navy. a.
Domei also failed to mention
whether the deaths occurred over a
period of time or simultaneously
Nomura was appointed to the post
of commander of the yard following
his resignation from the cabinet OF
General Hideki Toto.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-04

SPORTSMAN'S PARK, ST. Louis,
Oct. 4. UP)-The st. Louis Browns
lsed the hitting power of George
McOuinn and the pitching cunning
of Denny Galehouse Wednesday to
defeat their intra- city rivals, the
Cardinals, 2 to in the opening
game of the 1914 World series.
Rain kept the crowd back and
the pavilion and bleacher seats, sold
On a first-come, first served basis,
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-04
FORMER CALEXICAN
WOITNDED IN WAR

The name of Second Lieutenant
Leslie E. Tucker, former member o!
the Calexico police department, was
included on list of soldiers
wounded in action in the European
area.
Lieutenant fuckers name appear
ed among the names of 2030 Ameri-
cans reported wounded by the wal
department.
His wife is living in Ell Centre.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-04
JURY CONVICTS CALEXICAN
ON FAILURE TO PROVIDE

A superior court jury required 80
minutes Tuesday to find Eugenio
Cagigas, Calexico, guilty of failure
10 support his family.
Cagigas alleged that he was not
the father of the child his wife
asked that he support. During the
TRIAL it was established that Cagigas
mad sued his wife for divorce in
Mexicali and in the complaint
claimed the child as his and asked
Tor its custody.
sentence will be pronounced by
Judge Elmer Heald Friday.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-04

ate interim committee, Purcell esti-
mated that S19,00O,OO0 will be avail
able for highway construction on
June 80 1945, coming from savings
in state highway funds and unex-
pended federal aid.
He also said that he believed with
normal revenues and federal grants
an $80,000,00O construction program
in the four immediate postwar years
could be financed.
However. Purcell declared that
the state highway system was not
a solvent and going concern at the
outbreak of the war" and adced
that financial problems of the high
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-04
FARM LABOR INFLUX SHOWS
INCREASE IN SEPTEMBER

Arrival OF MEXICAN ldTIlI IdUoI eIo
into California during September
raised normal influx for that month
by rs per cent, according to figures
shown in a monthly farm labor re-
port submitted Wednesc ay by
George Garrigues, farm placement
manager, El Centre. The report
showed the flow of such workers
from across the border reached an
approximate total of 1900.
Laborers from other parts of the
state coming into Imperial Valley
was termed normal at 500, as was
outgoing to coastal areas set at
35
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-04

SACRAMENTO, Oct. A..
(UP)-C. H. Purcell, state
director of public works,
Wednesday reported that the
division of highways will
have $19,00O,O00 available
for postwar road building,
but declared that the share
of the gasoline tax available
for state highways has be-
come inadequate.
In testimony before a state SEN
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-04
Warren Cites Dissention
In Government Affairs

office holders, dispensers of patron
age, and dissenters from the Amer
lean pattern of life" he said.
Political machines wear out and
eventually fall apart and that is
exactly what is happening to the
New Deal. 1t is now approaching
dissolution through decay.
This country is ready for a
change. 1t cannot become static and
serve the changing needs of the
people. 1t never was in the minds of
the founding fathers that a presi-
dent should hold office more than
two terms, and prior to the New
Deal neither party wanted it to be
So"
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-04
Big u. 5. Planes
Strike Munich

LONDON, Oct 4. (UP)-Approx.
imately $50 heavy American bomb
ers plastered the railyards at Mum
ich in southern Germany Wednes-
day and also attacked numerous
points on the Brenner pass line and
other railroad lanes leading into
northern Italy. SO
At the same time British Lam
casters and Halifaxes made strong
attack on Nazi submarines and sub
marine pens at Bergen. Norway. in
daylight onslaught under fighter
cover.
The British lost one bomber, the
British air ministry said
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-04
OFFICERS CONTINUE HUNT
FOR SLAYER OF MEXICAN

Officer scontinued their search
Wednesday for the slayer of Jesus
Alvez, As, Mexican irrigator killed
Monday night on ranch south of
the Barbara Worth golf course.
Examination of the body revealed
that Alvez's neck was broken. he
had been strangled, and had a
wound on his head
The Mexican was robbed of S70O
an dmurdered while he was irrigat-
ing on the Taylor Milling company
ranch southeast of Ell Centre.