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Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-09-14
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Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-09-14
Days End Finds First
Aid Room Is Busiest

WASHINGTON, D. c. The
first aid room at national OPA
headquarters stays open until
$40 every afternoon, although
the rest of the offices close at
$3.50. A pretty nurse explained:
1--WE have to stay on a few min
utes longer to patch up the ones
who get knocked down the stairs
trying to get out of here at $780,"
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-09-14
BY FRED m Ell ER.

Don't you realize that the more
money I get out of circulation the
less chance there'n be Of having in
fiati0n.''
Kodiak mirror., 1944-01-08
piden1ic Continues

Kodiak flu epidemic contin ued this week, with the number of cases estimated about the same as last week. Only one new flu patient was admitted at the Griffin Memorial hospital, Flor ence Freeman, employee of the Chicken Pie House.
 School was re open3l Monday but with an enrollment of only 70 students it was closed again Tuesday and will start again next Monday.
Kodiak mirror., 1944-01-08
Two Deaths Recorded

Annie Glass Sigfusson, 24, died at the Griffin Memorial hospital Jan 5 with interment in tIe local cemetery.
 She is survived by an aunt, Mrs. Tex O'Rlley, of Kodiak, and by her parents and a num- Der of b,othels S and sisters. The latter were evacuated from the Pribilof islands as was the de- ceased.
 Kusma Tudwhan, 67, fisher man, died of heart failure on Woody Island Jan. 4. Funeral services were held there Thurs day.
Kodiak mirror., 1944-01-08

head with glenades, machine guns & small arms along a 10- mile front centered in San Vit- tore, where a no- quarter fight ragged from building to building as the Germans barricaded & re- fused to give themselves up. Progress of the offensive continued to be slowed by rain, snow & mountainous terrain. On the Adriatic coast, the Eighth army drove the Nazis from the ridge commanding the village O
 Torre Mucchio < the road t
 Pescara. Reports reached Stock
Kodiak mirror., 1944-01-08
Rain Breaks Icy Spell

Rain on the icy streets and roads this week resulted in re- ports of numerous cars a n d trucks in minor accidents. An army tuck slid into Kraft's store, knocking out two posts of the hardware store porch and breaking a window. A truck slid off the icy stretch of road near the Russian church but was re- moved without damage.
 X jeep and a car driven by Charles Madsen colIlded Tn front of the Club Liquor store. The Madsen car suffered some dam age.
Kodiak mirror., 1944-01-08
Attorney Gives Reasons Favoring
 Statehood For Alaska In Club Talk

The additional cost of state hood for Alaska would more than be offset by the ad- vantages, Warren A. Taylor, at torney, declared i'll an address on the subject of Alaska state- hood at the Rotary luncheon Tuesday.
 "AIaskan's are not really sov- ereIgn Americans, he said. "We are taxed without represent ation, we have a representative in Congress who cannot vote or introduce bills, and we cannot even vote for the President of the United States"
 The speaker listed as disad- vantages of the territorial form of government that the gover- nor is appointed, not elected, and that in the history of Alas ka only one Alaskan has been named to that post; that the Territorial laws "are more a list of don't's than of do's"; that the people have none of the dis
Kodiak mirror., 1944-01-08
Kodiak Vice Operator Given Two Years

Seattle (R)-Although Ms. Doris Belle Graham, described as a "top operator" of vice es- tablishments in Kodiak. wanted to pay a fine of $4500 dollars in- stead of going to jail for violat- ing the white slave act, U. s. District Judge Clack indicated that Mrs Graham will be sent to a women's correctional ln- stitution at Alderson, West Viz ginia for ? years with an added 5-year probation period during which she is not to engage m the business of prostitution. No fine was assC sed
 Mrs. Graham pleaded guilty and the sentence was deferred a week to give her time to straighten out her business af- fairs, including sale of her Kod- iak property, and to obtain medical attention.
Kodiak mirror., 1944-01-08
Russian Front

Gen Vatutin's forces sped for ward with new momentum after smashing 10 miles beyond the prewar Poland border. The fam shaped offensive threatened to make lifeless the vital enemy operations in the Ukraine & Dnieper river bend. The Nazis appear unable to halt the Rus sian machine over the l75 mile front from the Pripet marshes near Rakitno. 10 miles inside the Polish frontier, to Zhaskov, with the First Ukranian army ripping German lines to pieces & cap- turing hugh stores of booty. In the Nevel sector to the north, General Bagranian's growing Baltic offensive swept deep into strong cores of enemy resistance, where Germans faced the spect- CT of encirclement similar to that of those in the Ukraine. Berlin dispatches in the Swedish press quoted a German military spokesman as saying there is a possibility of the German army being withdrawn entirely from Russia in the face of what he declared appeared to be a giant Soviet offensive along the whole front, from Leningrad to the the Black sea.
 Mediterranean Front
 Fifth army troops smashed a
Kodiak mirror., 1944-01-08
Hearing Set On Fish Bill

Washington (R)-The office of Senator Wallgren announced that the subcommittee of the Senate Commerce Committee will start hearing Jan. 20 on WaIlgren's bill to enact a new fisheries code for Alaskan waters.
 The measure, which would place all fishing in waters east of the International date line under control of the Wild Life Service of the Interior Department would prohibit fishing in those waters except by persons holding licenses.
 The proposed action IS intend- ed to bar Jap fishermen coming into waters off the coast.
Kodiak mirror., 1944-01-08

position of natural resources; that property outside of munic- qualities cannot be taxed; that decisions, such as withdrawing from entry of public lands along the new Alaska highway are made by remote control; and that in all cases this same re- mote control prevents Alaskans, aware of local conditions, from effectively controlling them.
 To the criticism. that Alaska is huge and unwieldy, MT. Fay Tor answered that modern trans port ation, especially by plane, had reduced" the Territory in size; to the criticism that state hoods operation would cost more he said that additional revenues would make up the difference and be worth it.
 Alaska would mean more 10 us as a state", he concluded "because each of us would be a partner then, duly represented, with voice in our own affairs" ;"
Kodiak mirror., 1944-01-08
Pacific Front

As both sides brought up ar til cry & strafing American planes supported attacking ma rines, enemy losses rose to more than 2.000 in the heavy fighting in progress in the dense jungles of Cape Gloucester, New Brit ain island. Fierce enemy resist ance has been encountered in a push directed eastward toward Borgen bay. U. s. Sixth army troops which landed at Saidor, New Guinea, have engaged the enemy at Cape Regis, 10 miles northwest of tn invasion beach. Allied forces are within less than 50 miles of Madang, which was plastered by a 243- ton lombard ment. In the third recent car rier-based plane raid against Kavieng, New Ireland, ? Jap heavy cruisers & 1 destroyer were damaged. Three 1000. pound bombs & 1 torpedo slam med into the others. Liberatoi
 bombers downed IS of 80 Jar
 interceptors while raiding Ra.
 baul, New Britain. Allied head
Kodiak mirror., 1944-01-08
European Front

An RAF Heavy bomber feet raided the Baltic port of Stettin, Germany's main outlet for troops & supplies to the north.
 ern Russian front American Marauder bombers sma he'd mil itary abjectives in northern France, keeping the round-the clock offensive rolling, after RA- F Mosquitos raided Western Germany for 6 successive nights.
Kodiak mirror., 1944-01-08
2 Marriages Are Performed

Two marriages were perform ed this week by Mary c egoroff, acting in the absence of h,F father, US Commissioner C. c. Naughton, who is i'll with the flu.
 On Dec. 30 LilIie E. Waller was to Edward Rogers, with Marian Curtis and H. c. Kaho as witnesses.
 Kathryn Breslich and Lindsey R. Massey were married on Jan. 8, with Mrs. Albert Naughton and c. R. Mcdonald as witness es.
Kodiak mirror., 1944-01-08
4CiviI Suits Are Filed

Four civil suits were filed this week at the U. s. Commissioners office.
 Stanley KroIick and Kenneth Fuller, partners operating the Brooklyn Avenue Garage, filed suit against Clifford LilIethun, accountant, naming two causes of action. The first asks for $22i.95 aimed due for repairs and parts. The second. brought on behalf of Pat Pestrikoff, seeks recovery of $97 which it is all legged Pestrikoff gave Lillethun to pay the plaintiffs income tax and which it is claimed Lillethun failed to pay.
 In a second suit the same two plaintiffs seek $503 40 from Ben Bolden, taxi operator for work said performed on the defend ants car. It is claimed Bolden presented a check for the amonnt and then stopped payment onI Che check
 Trial n these two suits has been set for Jan. IF.
 A suit was also filed involving the land on which the Chicken Inn is located. Action was brought by Norman Nelson, a. gainst Al and Katherine Lacosse who sold the inn this week. The suit claims that the plaintiff sold the land under contract to the defendants and that all pay ments were not made. The a. mount sought is S999.99. Trial IS set for Jan. IA,
 A fourth suit was filed by the Kodiak Garage versus Al Nixon, taxi operator, seeking $126 for services claimed perform ed for the defendant. Trial is set for Jan. IS.
Kodiak mirror., 1944-01-08

holm, Sweden, saying that Allie specialist troops have landed at several strategic points on the Yugoslavia coast. Dispatches from Allied headquarters in AL giers called the report errone- ous. London said the report was problbly planted by the Ger mans as 8 feeler of Allied plans,
 Washington (P)-Whole new vistas in socket plane travel have been opened by the dis closure of a fighter plane using "jet propulsion" developed and pronounced a success. The new plane, visions of which awakened scientific research years ago, was announced jointly by Army Air Forces and the Royal Air Force.
 The plane has completed several hundred test flights with out mlshap. Quantity product ion will begin soon. As today's planes have about reached the peed limits of their orthodox design, jet propulsion has been
 regarded by engineers as the
 logical next step. Jet propulsion,
 commonly called rocket propul-
 si, n, eliminates the propeller by pulling the plane forward with a
 series o f powerful explosions which "bite" the air.
Kodiak mirror., 1944-01-08
World News HighIights

quarters disclosed that an air field for light & medium bomb CTS has been completed on Bou- gaipville, Northern Solomons. The field is less than 25O miles from Rabaul.
Kodiak mirror., 1944-01-08

MT. and Mrs. Nick Nekeferoff
 are the parents of a son, weight 6 pounds g ounces, born Jan. 4 t the Griffin Memorial hospital.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-29
CIVILIANS HEAR
PLEA FOR CHEST

Speaking in praise Of Wilmington
social agencies and in support of
the Community Chest drive, Mrs.
Esther Sweeney of New York, di-
rector of the U.S.O. Travellers Aid
here. addressed the Civitan club at
the Friendly cafeteria banquet
hall last night.
Mrs. Sweeney commended the
social agencies of the community
On their fine work, with special
emphasis on the services rendered
by the recreational and health
sgences.
No city is any stronger than its
social agencies, she declared.
A short movie. Memo for Joe,"
depicting home front activity dur
ing the war, was shown by Bill
Stewart, director of the Boys Bril-
gade club.
Fred Rippy and Jimmie Sloan
we're congratulated for progress
ing into the finals. of the Civic
clubs tennis tournament.
Sloan called upon the members
10 support the high school athletic
teams by buying season tickets to
the games.
The club voted to suspend its
regular meeting next Thursday
night and meet with the other civic
clubs of the city at noon Thursday.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-29

months. There, is heavy war de-
mand for cotton cordage.
Elliott has pictured the situation
III print cloth this way: Even if
civilians got every yard produced,
the total would fall 50,00O.0 600 yards
short Of meeting minimum civilian
demands.
WPB has recently taken looms
away from work clothes, denim
and sheeting in a drastic effort
t. give a 30,000,00e-yard increase
to the production of duck for mill.
tary tents, for which the official
shortage estimate" is about &c.,
100000 yards in 1914.
Civilians this year are expected
tc get about 70 percent of the TO-,
200, 100000 yards of cotton being
produced, armed forces about
percent and exports about eigh
and three-fourths percent, WIPE
has estimated.
The total production is 100000,
600 yards less than in 1943, ane
than in 1912 when civilians were
getting almost everything pro
duced
Elliott pointed out that military
requirements have PRACTICAL,
swept chambrays and denims from
civilian markets. In some cases
he said, looms for fabrics like ging
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-29
Clothing Shortage
To Last Some Time

WASHINGTON, Sept. % Up -
Everybody is short of everything.
Everybody yells for more mer-
,chandise," War Production
Board textile official replied when
u asked him What is the civilian
textile outlook?"
He reminded me that Canada is
using twothirds the textiles u. S.
folks get and England is rationed
at one-third our current consunp-
ton. Therefore, he implied, Ameri-
cans won't be forced into nudism
or living in bare homes if they
get fewer. fabrics and yarns than
they want. -'' '--,~..
William Y. Elliott, chairman of
the WPB office of civilian require
,ments, backed up. the textile ex-
pert's pessimism when he said that
even if foreign requests, including
relief shipments, were eliminated,
the problem would not be solved.
What's more, the fall of Ger
many won't make. the same diff
ference in the Soft lines that it
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-29

will be housewares, electrical ap-
pliances and other hard goods"
Hitler's collapse will cut army
textile purchases only about ten
percent, because no deep cuts in
army strength are planned, and
soldiers still must be clothed, shod
and tented. So must bombed-o out
Eu. opean civilians.
And since civilians at home al
ready get most. of the yardage, a
ten percent drop in military buy
ing means only one to 8 percent
increase in civilian supply.
Total cotton output has dropped
sharply since 1912, although it's
still greater than in. the '30s. Some
WPB people say clothing rationing
is still possibility unless hoped
for deep cuts in aircraft; shipbuild-
ing and other armament release
workers for the cotton mills.
Military demand for duck may
go up instead of down in 1915.
Lend-lease textile shipments e
expected to rise for the next six
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-29
legion CIRCUS
THRILL PACKED

thrills a-plenty are promised to
rons of the Legion Thrill Circus
paheduled to play weeks engage
S an at Legion Stadium starting
anfondav. October 49,. and continu-
NJ: MD afternoons and eni n g S
lasssongb Saturday. October 81.
Fifteen big feature circus acts
ave been booked for the grand
l '4snd program to be presented
: :silv at pm. and at 8 pm.
''' Among the many headline at
factions will be the Flying Romas
. r Of aerilists; the Three
jackets, sensational high pole act;
. a Great Braffy," the MAN they
e ,,r Hang" performing on his
,s9.foot high swaying pole; the
riding Lowandes," troupe of bare
hack riders; Captain Frank Doss
md his trained animal circus: a
sieh wire act, clowns, acrobats, an
A., aerial ballet and many other at
fractions
Midway attractions including
hish class shows, 20 rides. and
snecial events. Tom B. Hughes is
chairman Of the circus committee
Of wilmington Post No. 10 of the
american Legion, which is sponsor
ing the event, and his committees
reported that there is much in
terest being manifested in the COM
ipg event since this will be the
first big outdoor circus staged in
Wilmington in the past several
years.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-29
me STORE REPORTS
PASSING CHEST COAL

Going over the top of their goal
in the Community War Chest cam
paign, Sears Roebuck and Company
bounded over their quota yester-
day by approximately five per cent
according to a report last night
from Ranald Stewart, general cam
paign chairman.
This was the only report avail
able last night as solicitation Con-
tnued in the commercial, indus
trial, governmental, education and
public utility establishments.
Tie kickoff meeting Of the Negro
division will be held in the form
Of a banquet tonight at 8 o'clock
IN the cafeteria of Williston Indus
nal school, with E. M. Butler,
general chairman, presiding. More
than 100 workers are expected to be
present.
Headquarters for the Negro divi-
sion have been established at 511
Red Cross St.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-29
INQUEST AWAITING
DRIVERS RECOVERY

The inquest into til e death of
Woodrow Leamon Hardee, "a, ship
yard worker who was killed early
Sunday morning when a car driven
by Carlton Butler, 20, Of 500 Daw-
son St., crashed into the Sturgeon
Creek bridge and turned over be-
lore an oncoming oil tanker, will
not be held until Ed Master Wood
ell, driver of the tanker, is able
70 attend, Coroner w. E. Bell of
Brunswick county reported last
night.
The condition of Woodell is still
described by James Walker Memo
flal hospital attaches as serious.
Coroner Bell reported that But
lei, driver of the car which crashed
INTO the bridge on Highway "a near
Leland, is being held without priv
lIege Of bond in the jail at South
port.
--V-
Parsley, popular now chiefly as
a garnish, was used by the ancient
bees as a victory wreath.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-29
STATION TO BE REPAIRED

DURHAM, Sept. 28.-LR)-Cfti-
Gals Of the Southern Railway COM
pany today announced plans for
repairing and remodeling Dur
hams union station at an expendi-
ture of $50, 1000. Construction work
will begin as socn as priorities
may be obtained. Work will in
clude new root. rest rooms, in
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-29
LABOR SHORTAGE.
STILL CRITICAL

Although the New Hanover
county soy bean crop has not been
lost yet, the farm labor shortage
is still critical, County Farm Agent
R. W. Galphin announced yester-
cay. He added that he is hoping
for a new group of war prisoners
next week but he must know by
10 o'clock tomorrow morning just
how many prisoners. are. needed in
this area so that he can make his
request accordingly.
More prisoners are expected
early in November, he reported
but they will be too late to be
much help to the farmers who are
now harvesting t h snap-beans,
silage crops, hay and t h corr
which was blown down by the AL
gust storm.
A transit labor camp is scheduled
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-29

to open at Castle Hayne around
October S, the county agent an
bounced. Approximately $50 labor
ers will be assigned to the farmers
from this camp.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-29
stallation of new plumbing Vx-
lures and general paint job.

Alligators with skulls more than
six feet long once lived in Texas.
The fossil skull of one has been
restored.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-29

ham nave been taken over for
manufacture of items for military
use. Consequently supplies of such
fabrics are vanishing if they still
exist. a. "
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-29
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The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-29

One Of the many thrilling acts 10
De presented at the American re.
gion circus during the week begin
mug october Is will be the Riding
.. Iowa bareback riders, pic.
Dead penguins are seldom found
on land: Sick birds struggle val.
lantiy to reach the sea before
death sovertakes them.
Evening star., 1944-10-28
ROOMS Observation-Disclosures

Ss,b Sols PERRY ST: N;E.L.Front room, next
5oa TRfNbAp nai a, AVE- 11FpsT M 1852 2oo
s. per. week: plenty heat: bus at door,
i, 1928 oTIs sT: 5 = NE.-comfortably, ne, newly
near Franciscan Monastery Phone and
laundry ,96n privileges, Excellent transporta-
1871 1871 MosRoE Kssisoies ST. rent Nr4.Sm H1 sass
soie ape single room, in private home. auto sas
heat; plenty of closet space unlim. phone:
E-2 E bus at at corner; no other roomers Gail
BRooKLAND, 1909 TAYLOR ST. NE
t5rignt bedrms, with private bath, in outet
tsfinn home No 70 otheT -roomers Near transpor-
IIle II ST. Ne nicely furnished con-
Hesti1T ,a TEyN T19m, y9 70 ladies' on esrline so
bath, steam heat, Kit. priYil optional, )
employed girls.
EINE EN-, legation. Brookland On busline
poyed 9s oa1h lsdy %g9suEer gSo DE F95 sSe en-
39t3 AMES ST. NE-Larse room, twin
oeds; newly furnished; private home with
az al acHcommodations: light housekeeping.
100 sth' '' ST. N.E.-Laree 1st-aoor-tropt
WE ROOM Twin db beds s. saeh
iiss MORSE '' ST, N.ToGsrse 30 6oqose room close
to bath, including back porch suitable for
AT Or o5ss near streetcar and busline,
lth AND DOUGLAS NE, apt-Bedroom
IN new bldg, refined lady or service couple
ppeak prlvll., good transp NO 1884
1910 F ST. NE.-Laree, well-turn. room.
tor girls; private entrance. INV h: close
10 transportation. H st. shopping center
and movies, LU. 1753
CLEAN ROOM, private home: couple O.,
ine men @ only gentle home. FIR. 0557.
,'ri,o mooDh tI- DGE-Room, single; gentleman;
TeI ! = block streetcar. bus NO 9o5a .
COLoRED-Larse front room. double bed,
man Park re: l or > refined employed
q iIeS Call after 4;3O I'M FIR 1854
IoLQKED-Nice single and double rooms.
suitable employed persons North S032
after $50 D m daily