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Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-01-13
RUSSIA:
Reds AdUance

Delivering trip-hammer blows all
along the 8O0-mile Russian front,
Red armies surged forward again
in the south as Germany's harassed
high command shifted forces to
check the big push.
The Reds heavy blows in the
south fell as German resistance stiff
ened in the north around Vitebsk.
Quickly shifting the gravity of their
attack, the Russ struck on no.
mile front in the south, first punch
ing hard at Zhitomir, then punching
still harder above that railway hub
at Koresten.
This winters Russian offensive
was a real smuggling match, with each
side in the south primarily con-
cerned with exhausting the other.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-01-13

The north central region of the
U. S. showed the sharpest decrease
for the II month period, with 20 per
cent less fatalities than in the SINH
lar period last year. The mountain
region recorded a drop of % per
cent, the south central "a per cent,
the north Atlantic % per cent,
and the Pacific per cent.
Mount Vernon, N. Y, was the
largest city in the country without
a fatality in the first IL months of
1913, while among cities of 100000
population or more, st. Louis report
ed the biggest decline of 81 per cent
and Philadelphia the smallest with
/ per cent.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-01-13
OPA UPHELD:
Reply to House

Officials of the Office of Price Ad-
ministration in replying to house
committee charge that the OPA was
guilty of "usurpation and abuse of
it's powers" pointed out that the
courts have upheld the OPA orders
in nearly all tests.
Out of 1891 cases to the end of
September, the courts have rem
dered decisions favorable to the
OPA in all but 291 actions, officials
said. They also denied that OPA
regulations have caused wide
spread business failures"
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-01-13

Because of comfortable stocks of
canned green and wax beans, zero
point values were established for
them. A 10 per cent reduction in
consumer demands for canned peas
and tomatoes during the last two
months led OPA to chop their point
values for No. and 21z cans to Is.
In an attempt to move frozen vege-
tables from storage to make room
for record pork stocks, all point
values were removed.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-01-13

been instructed to take the custom
er's word for it. Those wanting
cookers for other purposes must
make application with the War Food
administration Office in Washington.
RESTAURANTS: The nations
restaurants, hard pressed by food
restrictions and difficulties in keep
ing employees, are serving Is mil
lion persons daily.
FAT: The housewives Of Amer
lea have salvaged 120 million pounds
of fat and turned it in for munition
manufacture since the campaign be-
gan in July, 1912, it is announced.
ROOSTER: A "crowless'' roost-
er and new breed of "all-purpose"
chickens are on display at the poul-
try show in New York.
FASHIONS: Ruffies and unneces-
sary trimming are coming off Gee
tunes of movie actresses, as design
ers strive to comply with wishes of
the Office Of Price Administration.
The new and simple fashions are in
tended to save cloth.
>sased by Western Newspaper Union.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-01-13
Analysis
Nazis Reel Under Pressure of Heavy Air Attacks and Sea Losses

trainmen and engineers accepted
FDR's proposal, as result of which
they received an overall pay in
crease of cents an hour.
Also accepting FDR's offer at the
last minute were the Is non-operat-
ing railroad unions representing
1,150,000 employees, who suddenly
agreed to former government pro-
posal of pay increases ranging from
10 cents an hour for the lowest paid
to cents an hour for the highest
paid, but also insisted on overtime
compensation past 40 hours.
Biggest Year
Nineteen hundred and forty-three
was the greatest year in the history
of American railroads.
Cd 725 billion ton-miles of freight
were handled, a ton-mile equaling
one ton hauled one mile.
CD Passenger traffic totaled IS bill
lion passenger miles.
90 Gross earnings exceeded 8 bill
lion dollars, although net operating
income amounted to l billion, 385
million dollars.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-01-13
DEBTS:
Going Down

While the federal debt has been
soaring, all other obligations, both
public and private, have been going
down since the beginning of the war,
a survey shows.
States and cities have been en-
p1oying their increased revenues, re-
sulting largely from greater BUSH
ness activity, to paying off their
bonds and notes. Most corporations
are applying part Of their improved
earnings to debt retirement, too.
During 1912, total non-federal debt
declined 31z billion dollars.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-01-13

INSURANCE: British maritime
insurance companies have reduced
the war risk rates on cargoes to and
from the United Kingdom to about
half the former rate, rejecting the
greater security of the seas.
CARTOONIST: Arthur Young, IA
NOUS cartoonist and author, is dead
at II in New York. He was active
in campaigns for woman suffrage,
labor organization, abolition of child
labor, and other reform movements.
He worked on Chicago, Denver and
New York papers.
AUTOS: Postwar automobiles will
be lighter and will consume about
half as much gasoline as the pres
ent models do, says an official of the
Socony-Vacuum Oil company. He
also mentioned the possible develop
ment of steam and electrically pro-
PEELED cars to save motor fuel.
PRESSURE COOKERS: The gov
eminent has taken pressure cook
ers off the ration list, but all pur-
chasers will be required to specify
that they intend to use the cookers
for preserving food. Retailers have
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-01-13
GOODS DISTRIBUTION:
Change AlL0tments

Communities that have been find
ing difficulty in getting their share
of such scarce items as flashlights,
bobby pins, cooking utensils and
electric appliances can expect a
larger supply soon. The War Pro-
duction board has asked manufac-
turers and wholesalers to make vol
untary changes in their allotment
schedules.
Shortages are particularly acute
in cities that have expanded in the
last year or two, because of an in
flux of war workers. Merchants in
these communities were allowed
only about the same quantity Of
goods that they had been buying in
prewar years. Wholesalers promise
to rectify this unfair situation.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-01-13
FORTRESS EUROPE:
Step Up Action

Bringing heavy artillery into play,
Lieut.. Gen. Mark Clark's Fifth army
blasted the Nazis from strong points
blocking the 75-mile road to Rome.
while farther to the east, the British
clambered past the enemy's Adri-
attic bastion of Ortona, won after
more than week Of vicious street.
to-street fighting.
AS u. S. and British troops
punched their way through the
Nazis' stiff mountain defenses in
southern Italy, aerial and naval war
fare in Europe stepped up.
Fleets of Allied bombers winged
their way over the English channel
to pound Nazi Notifications along
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-01-13
AGRICULTURE:
Meat Production

Farmers received an all-time high
Of four billion dollars for livestock
slaughtered under federal inspection
in 1943 as meat production also
reached an al1-tine high Of more
than "a billion pounds.
Fifty per cent more meat was pro-
duced than during the 10-year pre-
war average, but after ALLEGATIONS
to the government, civilian con-
sumption was held to the prewar
rate Of 1872 pounds per person. Be-
cause Of rationing, however, sup
plies were more evenly distributed
than formerly.
Meat output for 1914 was estimat-
ed at Is billion, 600 million pounds,
of which 8 billion, 500 million pounds
will be required for military and
1end-lease purposes.
CCC Program
TO help stimulate production and
fulfill commitments to support crop
and livestock prices, the Commod-
ity Credit corporation spent 3h bill
lion dollars during the 1943 fiscal
year.
AS of December 18, CCC possessed
81, 1898, 1888 bushels Of wheat under
1912 loan, while 96,101,5 16 bushels
were redeemed. CCC wheat stocks
at that date totaled 86,928, 900
bushels.
Principal objective of the Gees
1943 program was to increase the
production of vegetable oils, dairy
and poultry products and meats, and
at the same time to lmderWrite OPA
price ceilings.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-01-13
LEND-LEASE:
Aid to Russia

With many of its great industrial
cities RACED and natural resources
overrun, 31s billion dollars Of lend
lease assistance bolstered Soviet
Russia in it's critical hours.
To the Russ, the u. S. has sent
nearly 1000 planes, $500 tanks, $780,
900 sub-machine guns, $50, 900 trucks,
1000 jeeps, 225, 1000 field telephones,
and 100000 miles Of field telephone
wire.
In addition, the U. S. has sent
100000 tons of steel, 100000 tons
of non-ferrous metal, 100000 tons of
chemicals, 100000 tons of petroleum
products, and more than $4,000
metal cutting tools.
Besides sending wheat, flour,
meats, fats and oils, the U. S. also
has supplied 10000 tons Of seeds to
Russ farmers.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-01-13

came within closer
range of U. S. bomb
ing planes with the
marines capture of
two air strips on
Cape Gloucester on
the western end Of
the island.
F oil o w n G u p
he avy bonn lin G
which helped crum-
pie the enemy y S
strong line Of pill
boxes, the marines
stormed remaining
Tan pOSifionS with
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-01-13
Germany's Scharnhorst.

the French coast, and the Raj
rained another 1924 tons of explo-
sives on battered, hapless Berlin.
Following the British home fleets
sinking of the 6,O00-ton Nazi battle
ship Scharnhorst off North Cape,
Norway, light Allied and German
naval units tangled in the Atlantic
off the French coast, with airplanes
being called into play to help sink
three enemy destroyers and a
speedy blockade runner.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-01-13
Traffic Toll Drops

On the basis of reports for IL
months, the National Safety Council
estimated that Americas traffic
death toll for 1943 would reach %, 600,
$4,000 below the prewar year 1941.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-01-13

EDITORS NOTE-When opinions
are expressed in these columns, they
are those of Western Newspaper Union
news analysts. and not necessarily OF
this newspaper.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-01-13
RAILROADS.:
Strike off

Seeking to avert a threatened
strike after the switchmen, conduc-
tors and firemen and enginemen had
refused his offer to arbitrate their
wage demands against the carriers,
President Roosevelt quickly seized
the nations railroads for the gov
eminent.
Representing about 10000 men,
the three unions had baked at pres
idential intervention even after the
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-01-13
SOUTHWEST PACIFIC:
BOmbings Jar Japs

Japan's great air and shipping
base of Rabaul on New Britain
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-04-16

They were on the streets at dusk and il dark.
ness; in the dance halls and honkytonks and
night clubs They were on buses and trains II
the TdlIfOdq terminals they moved III hOrdes.
Like a moving scroll they run through my
memory. There was the nervous parade of them
that marched up and down around Times Square
and Broadway on Saturday afternoons and nights
waiting for date or pickup. Often their only
pickup was the policeman who arrested them
Lines of them waited every late afternoon
under the arch that leads 10 the Broad Street
Station in Philadelphia As the soldiers and
sailors sUeamed in and out of the trains, the girls
were there. Sometimes they were passed BY
In the end they managed to get their men, who
speedcd them away TO the dance halls and cab.
arets in the nearby tenderloin some OF them 10
come out Keeling when dawn was pnkng the sky.
1.-THE suggestion of Il member or the City7s
~ Crime Prevention Unit l went there and
watched TO for myself.
In Washington saw them, and in Chicago and
st. Louis and Kansas City and Omaha and San
Francisco and Los Angeles and i'm various small
towns through which l passed
Some of them were young that they still
had -littlegirl legs and feet; and SO that they
might look more grownup they had done up their
appeal to the fancy Of their captured boy friends
in uniform
And there were the three met in the dressing
room on the train on which ! was going west
ITS time to get busy if we're not going TO
pay for our means between here and Frisco one
was saying as she brushed her bright hair into
long curls punCtuatng her movements with pre-
tentious inhalings of her cigarette.
Honey chile, you said somethin'." Another
just as pretty, gave her CyclaSheS an upward
swing with tiny black brush
Il have my eye n superduper with new
wings that gave me the eye when | took a swing
April Ia. 1914
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-04-16

hand he hurried to keep his date with the girl.
The result: A number of and women
workers were killed. Many more were injured.
The plant was demolished. All that remained of
an important war order went up in the flames
and smoke that lost itself in the sky.
This story, fresh from the files of the FBT, is
unique only in its spectacular ending Involved
in it are some of the leading factors in thousands
upon thousands of other true stories, none Of
which has been less tragic.
Scarcely had / started on my journey re.
Gently when l eHas convinced, both by what
saw and by figures placed at my disposal by re-
Sponsibc agencies that we now have on our
hands an army of wayfaring girls far outnumber-
ing and of darker implications than the army of
girl vagabonds who roved through the countryside
and infiltrated the cities during those terrible
depression years of 1881 and 1892
Girls were every place. And when say girls"
I mean girls of the in.betwccn ages, those who
have stepped out of childhood before their time
and are not yet grown up. Girls not with parents
or older companions. But girls on the loose,
travelling hither and thither alone or in pairs.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-04-16

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ncase i'm juvenile rnQunc He lad
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the following
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-04-16
10. l-Nagabond Girls.

Tot long ago in an eastern city disastrous
N explosion occurred in a munitions plant
Sabotage, of courSe" was the immedi.
ate verdict of both the press and the public.
When the Federal Bureau of Investigation had
finished its work. it had different story TO tell
the old, old story of a man and girl
The man was n section foreman. The girl
listed as II, but later proved to be II, served at
the counter in the plant cafeteria She had come
into the community a fortnight or so previously
with trailer group of itnerant workers. Pretty,
precocious and glib, she had lied about her age
TO get both the man and the Job
The two had been meeting every day at three
being an alley at the back of the large plant
The afternoon of the disaster a precarious
technical job requiring skilled handling was going
on. The foreman turned his post over to green
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-04-16
BY GENEVIEVE PARKHURsT

Nationally Recognized Research Authority ant
Author of observation-disclosures Join Science
to Cure IL"
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-12-19

Super Cleaners and Vico Weld
ing remained at the head of the
city Recreation Basketball
League today in the wake of
their third straight victories
scored last night at Mount Glenn
ems High School gymnasium.
At the same time a new all
time city individual scoring re-
cord was established when Ralph
Siewert, siX-foot l1-inch giant of
BatkinS Radio, dropped in 30
points as he spanked the Radio
men TO a lopsided 1925 victory
over Goebel. SieWert amassed
his record-beaking totaE on 10
field goals and two free throws.
1t was Batkins' second victory
in three starts, putting them in
tie for third place with&the
Raggedy Ann Five, which was
handed its first setback by VicO,
1929.
Super chalked up its third
straight at the expense Of the
Golden Bears, who put up a
stiff fight for the better part of
four periods The Cleaners raj
lied midway in the closing
quarter to lock up the spOils.
Ralph Soenen led the Cleaners
attack with nine field goals and
a free toss for 10 points. Hank
FujiWara tailed 13 for the los
erS.
The Vico-Raggedy Ann game
also was a nip-and-tuCk affair
after the half. with the latter
staging a belated rally but fall
ing short by six points, Bonnie
Shields and Heinie Morden bag
ged eight points apiece for the
winners.
The Batkins- Gocbcl skirmish
was practically all SieWcrt, who
collected IA points in the first
half to give his team a cOaStlng
margin. c.. Gaudcttc bagged IS
points for Goebel.
Bud Cottrell's 10 points
played a major part in School S
1912 victory over Five Aces.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-12-19
Cincinnati HurIer
Led National Loop
Hod Eorned Run
Rotinq Of 2.38

NEW YORK, Dec. 10 - (P) -
Ed HueSSer, Cincinnati's much
travelled 35-year-old righthand-
ed hurler, who has pitched for
Is teams in 10 different leagues
since entering organized base
ball in 1929, led National League
pitchers in earned run rating
with 238, official 1914 averages
showed today.
The veteran six foot-one inch,
180-pound redleg curve baller
of Bountiful, Utah, gave up 81
earned runs in 1913 innings, while
winning l3 games and losing IL,
10 nose out teammate Bucky
Walters by two percentage
points. Walters, first in 1889 and
40, finished with 240, pitching
285 innings and p complete
games.
Following Huesser and Wal
terS came Mort Cooper, 2,46;
Ted Wilkes, 2.65; and Max Lam
Ter, 265, all of the st. Louis
Cards.
Wilks had the best won and
lost average, II victories against
five defeats for a percentage Of
$40 TO become first freshman 10
lead the league in WI percent
age.
Four hurlers won more than
20 games, Walters topping the
list with %. Cooper was one
behind and Bill Voiselle of the
New York Giants and Truett
Sewell Of Pittsburgh each won
p. Cooper hurled the most
seven, one more than
Walters.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-12-19
Grid Mogu|s
Lay Down Law
Warning Issued
on Suspensions

NEW YORK, Dec. 19-(P)-
The National Football League
has cleared its decks for any pos
sible action against the newly
orga zed professional grid
leagues that hope to operate next
year.
At the end of all-day post
playoff meeting at the Hotel
Commodore yesterday Commits
sioner Elmer Layden declared
that "any player who, while I'M
der contract TO or on the reserve
list of any National League club,
plays with any club in any other
league or with any independent
club, will be suspended from
playing in the NFL for five
years"
George Strickler, Layden's as
sistant, explained that enforce
ment Of this rule was aimed pri-
marily at the All-AmeriCa con-
ference.
I'VE understand" Stricken
said, the All-America has given
the impression to college players
that they have ticup with us.
This is not the case. There never
will be any tieup between the
NFL and any other league until
the new leagues are ready TO ac-
cept Layden as commissioners
and until they demonstrate they
can operate on sound basis.
Angelo Bertelli, star forward
passer for Notre Dame in 1913
and Bill Daley, former Mime
sofa star, recently were signed
by Los Angeles and New York,
respectively, of the All-America,
for postwar play.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-12-19
Buckeyes
Covet Gaze
Title Also

CHICAGO, Dec. 10 - lPy -
Ohio State, whose football team
dominated play in the Western
Conference, gave warning last
night that its basketball team
Will command respect of Big
Ten quintetS again this season.
The defending conference
championship Buckeyes, paced
Dy Don Crate, Jimmy Sims and
lanky Arnold Risen, poured GA
points through the hoops TO sub
due the University of Utah, last
years national collegiate title
holders.
All other Big Ten teams were
idle last night but most Of them
will be in action during the re-
malndcr Of the week. Tonight
Denver plays at Iowa and Pur-
due takes on DePauW Gndiana)
while Illinois and Wisconsin
IllN1l llOll-iN lN will w
morrow night. The Illini, twice
victorious over Great Lakes and
first winner this season over
Chicagos DcPaul, play host 10
the Sailors at Champaign, while
the Badgers entertain the Iowa
pre-fllght CagerS.
The Sailors meet their second
conference foe this week in a
game Friday against Purdue at
Lafayette, while on the same
night Minnesota will go TO Lin
coin to meet Nebraska. Five
contests are booked Saturday:
Minnesota at Great Lakes; Wis
consin at Marquette; Notre
Dame at Iowa; Western Michi-
gan at Northwestern, and Wy
omlng at Michigan.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-12-19
Army Voted
National
Grid Champ

NEW YORK, Dec. 10 - up
- Army's explosive unbeaten
and united football team that
rolled up 504 points in gaining
the mythical national champion
ship today was picked the 1914
team-of- he-year in the annual
Associated Press year-end poll.
Breaking a l2-year monopoly
by Major League baseball teams,
the T-minded West Point Ca
diets polled a total of 200 points
10 finish far ahead of the l04
garnered by the second place
world champion st. Louis Card
inalS.
The unbeaten and united foot
ball teams of Randolph Field
and Ohio State were third and
fourth, respectively, with % and
% points. Completing the first
five was the St. Louis Browns,
whose feat of winning their first
earned them q points.
Army, whose claim to the
highest ranking was disputed
until the Cadets easily swept
aside poWer-laden Navy at Bal
timore, received 81 first place
votes, II seconds and four
thirds, thus appearing on 70 Of
the IS ballots. The baseball
Cardinals got 10 first place mods,
the Browns four, Randolph
Field three and the Big Ten
championship Buckeyes only
one.
Spanked by hula-hipped Glen
Davis, National high scorer with
1920 points, and a pile-drivlng
tullback in Felix Doc" Blanch-
ard, the Cadets showed under
North Carolina, Brown, Pitt,
Coast Guard Academy, Duke,
VIllanova, Notre Dame, Penn
Sylvania and Navy for their first
perfect season since 1915.
The 50 and 81 points they ran
up on Notre Dame and Penn on
successive Saturdays were the
worst beatingS the Irish and
QuakerS have suffered in the
modest history Of the game. III
only one game were the Cadets
behind at the half. They trailed
Duke by 7-6, but scored three
second half touChdoWns to win
PIT.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-12-19
HUNGRY GOAT

EVANSTON, H., Dec. 19-(P)
the owner Of a hungry
billy goat claims him, he's got
to lead a dogs life in the city
pound. <-
John Bore, city dog warden,
caught the stray billy after re-
ports 10 police said the goat
appeared TO be eating tires on
parked automobiles. Borre put
the goat in private cell at the
pound but it quickly broke out,
joined the dogs in the compound
and ate all the dog rations in
the bins. Then Bore locked the
goat in stronger cell, with
iron bars.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-12-19
Utica Quintet Wins
Seasons 3rd Game
First and Second
Teams Beot Romeo

UTICA - Utica high school
won its third victory of the sea-
son Tuesday night, 20 TO %, at
the expense Of Romeo high on
the latcr's court. The game was
a closely fought contest with the
lead changing hands several
times.
At the half Romeo held five
point advantage, the score 1911,
AT the end Of the third period
Romeo held a one point lead,
20-l9. Immediately after the
start Of the fourth quarter, Utica
took the lead and was never
ovcrtaken. Final score, 1922
UtIca'S second team won by
q score Of 80 to l6.