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Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-11-09
ROAD BUILDINC:
Huge Program

With urgent highway construction
in the early postwar years exceed
ing 10 billion dollars, the vast guam
titles of labor, material and equip
ment needed for carrying on the
program should act as a stabilizing
factor in the future economy, the
American Road Builders associ-
atoms engineer-director, Charles
M. Upham, declared.
By next October, the states will
have drawn up plans for one billion
dollars of highway construction de-
ferred because of the war, and city,
county and local road projects will
amount to another billion.
Postwar plans of business and
industry call for greater production
and distribution Of goods" Upham
said. ''That means roads and streets
must carry greater burdens. OBJ
viously, inadequate roads and
streets will hold back business and
industrial activity"
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-11-09
ODT Says Women Are Different, After All

differently in women, partially ac-
counting for their tendency to grasp
tools differently from men and be
less steady on their feet.
According to ODT, most women
are handicapped In the mems world
because they never play with me-
chanical toys. NOW lawns or drive
heavier vehicles. Because Of their
sewing and other finer tasks, how
ever. they possess greater manual
dexterity. ODT concludes.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-11-09

Rosie the Riveter Notwithstanding,
there's a basic difference between
men and women workers, the Office
Of Defense Transportation says.
In a bulletin to employers, the
ODT says: 1.-THE average woman
differs from the average man in GER
tain physical, psychological and ex-
perience factors which have direct
bearing upon her ability. :"
For instance, ODT points out. the
elbow and the knee are constructed
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-11-09
PACIFIC:
SaUe Communications

Long in hiding, Japan's imperial
navy came out for battle in an eff
fort to smash the American supply
line to General Douglas MacArthur's
forces in the Philippines, and limped
off In defeat as the U. S. 3rd and 7th
fleets shattered the attack and Sc
cured the vital communications.
The Japs' attack took the shape
OF three-pronged assault, with one
enemy force coming in through the
narrow Surigao straits south of
Leyte; the second driving in through
the San Bernardino straits north Of
Leyte, and the third heading south
ward from Formosan waters.
Apprised of the Japs' approach by
alert U. S. carrier planes, Vice Adm.
Thomas C.. Kinkaid divided his out
numbered 7th fleet into two forces,
which, with the aid of carrier planes,
dealt the enemy a telling blow be-
fore he could fully develop his at
tack. Meanwhile, Adm. William F.
Halsey's 3rd feet, made up of war
ships, carriers and subs, caught
the Japs sailing down from For
mosa.
After the smoke of battle had
cleared, two Jap carriers, two
battleships, five cruisers and
three destroyers were sunk, with
three more warships probably
sunk and a dozen damaged. For
their part, the Japs claimed to
have primarily struck trans
ports and landing craft.
AS the crippled Jap feet limped
homeward licking its wounds, Gen.
eral MacArthur's ground forces con-
solidated their hold on Leyte island
despite mounting enemy resistance
and also strengthened their grip on
Samar island just across the San
Juanico straits.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-11-09
EUROPE:
Clearing Holland

Pushed back in France and Bel
GUM, the Germans were being
showed out of their last holdings in
Holland by Canadian and British
troops applying double squeeze on
some $4,000 Nazis in the southwest
ern part of the country.
Only in Holland was there major
action on the western front, with
rain and snow begging u. S. drives
about AZ chen, Metz and the Vosges
mountains.
Even though the British End army
had overrun the entire eastern Sec
ton of Holland in drive that the
Nazis only stopped at the gateway
to their important Ruhr valley, the
Germans held their ground in the
western part Of the country for the
purpose of denying the Allies use of
the great North sea ports for the
supply of their onrushing armies.
Principal port denied the Allies was
Antwerp, which the Nazis blocked
off by occupying both sides OF the
Schelde river leading inland to the
city. Dotting one side of the Schelde
are the Walcheren and South Beve-
land islands, connected to the main
land by a causeway below Bergen
Op Zoom In attempting to knock
the Germans out of their strategic
positions along both sides of the
Schelde, Canadian troops cut into
the enemy's defenses on the south
bank of the river, and fought to cap
ture the causeway below Bergen Op
Zoom and cut off island communi-
cations with the mainland.
Meanwhile, British troops smashed
through Nazi defenses to the north,
with the aim of racing toward the
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-11-09
Weekly News Analys
T. s. Fleet Secures MacArthurs Supply Lines Philippines

ties as aircraft, shipbuilding, and
munitions, however, since these in
dustries have been greatly expanded
to meet wartime requirements,
which will drop sharply with peace.
Of the governments billion
dollar investment in war housing,
permanent buildings must be sold
when no longer needed, and fabri-
Gated structures must be dis
mantled, with materials made part
of general surplus property.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-11-09
HOME FRONT:
Ne,Us for Consumers

On the home-front, consumers
heard this news:
There will be less meat for civil
ians in November but more Of the
better grades. There will be less
cheese but the same amount Of but
ter as in October.
Approximately 800 plants were
authorized to produce 152 million
dollars of civilian goods during the
next year.
Infants and children's clothes
were expected to be in greater sup
ply next January, February and
March. Cotton textile controls will
be maintained after Germany's de-
feat.
Possessing available facilities
and labor, the 500 plants will be
permitted to manufacture vac
uum cleaners, bed springs and
innerspring mattresses, auto
motive parts, building materials,
plumbing and heating items,
household aluminium ware, cleo
trio irons, lamps, lawn mowers,
furniture, church goods, fountain
pens and sporting goods.
Because of pent-up demand, made
even more formidable by swollen
purchasing power, the amount of
goods authorized represents virtual
ly a drop in the bucket.
To assure production of more in
fants' and children's wear for the
first three months of 1915, the War
Production board moved to release
sufficient material for 30,000,000 gar
ments, and also laid down specifica-
tons for the type of goods and work
manship to be employed.
The WPB hurried the program
even as it's chairman, j. A. Krug,
announced that because Of drops in
output of cotton textiles due to labor
difficulties, controls will be extended
after Germany's downfall to prevent
acute shortages. Production this
year is estimated at 1900, ZOO, 900
increase visibility and contrast to
further guard against accidents.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-11-09
RAIL RATES.:
Wants Boosts

Supporting their petition for con-
tinuance of the 10 per cent increase
in passenger fares, and immediate
application of the Az per cent
freight rate boost, railroad rep
resentatives declared the carriers
faced decreasing revenues when war
traffic subsidies.
Previously, federal agricultural
agencies opposed the freight rate in
creases on the strength of continued
high farm traffic for at least two
years after the war, while the QPA
claimed the carriers were trying to
pass wartime taxation along to the
public.
Unless rail revenue is bolstered
by rate increases, said Vice Presi-
dent Walter S. Franklin Of the
Pennsylvania railroad, the financial
structure Of the carriers will be seri-
cusly impaired in the postwar years.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-11-09
MANPOWER:
Employment Drops

With the nations labor force drop
ping by 100000 in September, War
Manpower Commissioner Paul v.
McNutt declared the reduction a
serious development in view of in
creased production requirements in
certain industries.
Most of the 100000 were either
students returning to school or wom-
en- becoming housewives, McNutt
said, and their places would have to
be taken by those in unessential
industry or presently not engaged
in some work.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-11-09

Infant SON of Yank aviator killed
in action, and of mother who died
i'm giving him birth, tiny Kenneth
Maloney was taken by maternal
grandparents, who were later
killed by robot bomb In London.
Army then flew six-month-old Ken
meth to paternal grandmother in
Grand Rapids, Mich, who is shown
putting him to bed while 22-month-
old cousin Terry looks ON.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-11-09

with the result being 80. a very
much less effective operation, and a
serious impairment of the railroads
ability to be ready to do their
part in meeting the employment
problem after the war"
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-11-09

sea and thus cutting off all German
troops along the Schelde to the
south.
Capture of Antwerp and Rot
terdam would give the Allies at least
two great ports for funneling in sup
plies for the drive on Germany and
relieve the need for a reliance on
smaller, crowded facilities.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-11-09

Speaking in the house Of COM
mons after his conference ,0ith Josef
Stain in Mosco,U, Prime Minister
/ Churchill declared: Unconditional
surrender in the sense of no bar
gaining ,oith the enemy is still the
policy OF the government"
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-11-09
Russ Reach Norway

Norway was the latest European
state to be invaded by the Russians,
with Gen. K A. Meretskov's north
ern Red army driving into the
Arctic port of Kirkenes in the wake
of its abandonment by $4,000 Nazi
troops.
Russian entrance into Norway CO.
incided with the Reds about Of
fensive against East Prussia, noted
wooded and lake country Of the
Junker military caste. Calling pan
ger formations into action along
roadways leading to the heart of
the province, the Germans sought to
stall the Russians advance west
ward, originally paced by an esti-
mated 600 tanks.
Compelled to throw additional
forces in Hungary to stave off the
Russian srive on Budapest, the Ger
mans fought hard to protect the
broad gateway to Austria from the
western end Of the country. In
raging tank battles, the enemy sue
ceeded in slowing the Red advance
80 miles tscrm Budapest.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-11-09
SIo,v Going in, Italy

In Italy, German Field Marshall
Albert Kesselring seemed to be
pulling his lines northward in a
slow, withdrawing movement hinged
on the big communications hub OF
Bologna, as Allied troops pushed
further through the mud onto the
broad plains of the Pc valley.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-11-09
SURPLUS HOLDINGS:
DISPOSAL Problem

With u. S. holdings of industrial
facilities amounting to about 1871
billion dollars - or 20 per cent of
the total private and public facili-
ties in the country - the govern
ment already has taken steps for
disposal of it's properties in the post
war period.
Difficulties are expected to rise
in the sale of the bulk of such facili-
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-11-09

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?, 1944-11-09
BRITISH LAND:
Avert Clash

Steering clear of any political
battle between conservatives and
liberals that might upset the present
coalition government, Britain's
house of commons passed bill for
postwar town and country recon-
struction.
Passage was aimed at avoiding
an about battle between the two
political elements over the bills pro-
vision that landlords only be paid
prewar prices for land condemned
for reconstruction use, with in
creases up to 80 per cent for occupy
ing owners.
News Briefs ...
The kitchen was termed zone OF
the most hazardous spots on earth"
by Marye Dahnke, home economics
specialist, in an address before the
National Safety congress. She
urged care in placing kitchen tables
well apart from the stove, to rem
der it less easy for hot foods to be
overturned onto the table and '.for
grease to spatter into someone's
eyes" She also urged that such
''ferocious'' substances as I've, kero-
sene, naphtha, abrasive powders
and bleaches be treated with whole
some respect for their uncom-
Portable potentials. In addition to
this authority's recommendations,
competent experts on. the modern
home also recommend painting
kitchens in light, cheerful tints,
not only for sanitation, but also to
increase visibility.
The bureau of animal industry
says that there are II states of the
Union known as western range
states which round up range horses
namely, Arizona, New Mexico,
Colorado, Nevada, Wyoming, Ore
gon, California, Washington, Mon
tana, Idaho, and Utah. These horses
are sold at auction under state laws.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-05
VETO ONERIDDEN

When Roo~rvrtt- sought 10 halt
a similar freezing earlier this
year by his tax bill veto, over
ridden by Congress, he said
elimination Of automatic i'm
creases provided in the social
security law comes at a time
when industry and labor are
best able TO adjust themselves
10 such increases. These auto
matte increases are required 10
meet the claims that are being
built up against the social
security fund. Such post
pOnement does not seem wise"
Barkley'S ire was aroused by
ROoSeveltS statement that the
purported yield of the tax bill
would be reduced by postpone
ment of the social security tax
boost
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-05

10 warn the defcgateS ABOUT
unauthorized strikes and vas
booed away from the mlcrophone,
one delegate rushing up 10 HIM
geSticulatlng in fighting manner.
Two other delegates nearly came
to blows during the confusion.
r. J Thomas, president Of the
UAW-CIO, members of the eXecu-
tive board and the special COM
mittce appointed by the main
-te1dntc- men tad- previously Iele-
graphcd the delegates asking
them 10 return TO work.
Delegates 10 last nights meet
ing frem FeFd Local see, largest
JAW local, were pledged 10 a no.
strike vote.
Maintenance men who struck
at the Willow Run bomber plant
early yesterday returned 10 work
after being off the job about two
and onc-haif hours.
Plants closed by the strike
yesterday are
The McGraw and Military ave-
nue. plants of the KelSey-Hayes
Wheel Co. two Briggs Manufac-
turing Co. plants and the Chrysler
Jefferson plant.
Other plants affected are
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-05
Reds 10 Miles
To belgrade

MOSCOW. Oct. 5 QNS)-Rus-
SLAMS, slashing IS miles across
YugoSlavia, overran Banatska
Kraljevicevo and Pancevo TO
sweep within 10 miles of Bel
grade today.
The fate of Belgrade appeared
10 be sealed as Russians. speeding
from the north and mort beast,
while Partisan units OF Marshal
Tito. racing from the south and
west. closed on the capital.
In Poland, the Soviet midnight
conmunique said, Red army as
Sault teams had struck west of
Lomza, crossing the heavily de-
Tended Narew River. l6 miles
south Of the East PruSSian border.
Approaching Inc Lithuanian
border of East Prussia 10 the
north, Red army units neared
Marlampolc.
Seizure Of BanatSka kralie e.
yiCoVo severed the last rail line
north OF the Danube. by which
AXIS defenders of Belgrade might
flee 10 safety,
North of Belgrade, Soviet
forces. which seized the rail town
of Petrorad, fought to cross the
lisa River and advance the last
y miles separating them from
their goal.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-05
SOMEBODY KNOWS

That is why the police are sure
somebody IN Detroit has an idea
of who the girl is. Somebody
knows she has vanished from her
previous residence
The police ask that such a
person telephone them lmmedi-
atelY.-The person. giving the-iR-
formation does not have 10 give
his name. This is a fiat appeal for
help.
Call The Detroit Times Cherry
$500, if YOU prefer.
Since the baby's kidnapping was
discovered early Sunday morn
ing, squads of police officers have
traced down every clue. Scores Of
persons have already telcphoned.
But the information has not led
10 establishing the identity of the
baby thief
MUST FIND GIRL
Said Deputy Chief Inspector
Jack Harvill:
I'VE believe Detroiters will
help us find this baby. Call us
if YOU have any idea of who the
girl might be. If we're to find
the baby, we must find the girl"
Warren Bow, superintendent of
schools. turned over all the year
books from high schools in the
city in the hope that Helen Ros-
man might have attended city
high school. as she said
She is well-educated and said
she was specializing in child care.
The frantic mother collapsed
Wednesday night for the first
time and was kept under opiates
for il hours yesterday.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-05
Maintenance Strike Ends

American Metal Products, COM
merce Pattern Foundry, Graham
Paige. Car Wood, l.. A Young,
Continental Motors. Chrysler tank
arsenal. ChrySler Kercheval and
Lynch road plants, Motor Prod
uctS and Packard.
Five Briggs plants, three Itud-
son plants Budd Wheel, De Soto,
Dodge. Zenith Carburetor WeS-
tinghouSc naval arsenal and Tim
ken Detroit AXt9.
The strikes started yesterday in
accordance with resolution
adopted AZ r mass meeting Mon
day night wren ti4c-wofkerS- voted
10 give the National War Labor
Board - hours IN which 10 grant
ttti4t.tt -- ttr-rr1rrrriS- for faCt-fndIng
panel To be sent 10 Detroit 10
check on UAW-CIO claims Of
wage inequalities
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-05
Continued from Page 0ne)

Continued from Page 0neb
today. Production is expected 10
be resumed however, when the
afternoon shift reports for work.
An attempt TO end the strike
last night failed when the plane
bearing Reuther, Richard Leonard
and Melvin Bishop, regional JAW
Go directors, was grounded.
Another plane bringing a union
committee here from Washington
was also grounded.
The SiX-man committee, headed
by c. II. CaSeteer, international
representative, and Jack Mcclure,
president OF the Maintenance,
Construction and Pow rh ~ Sc
Council. JAW, had appeared be-
fore The National War Labor
Board in the capital.
They returned to address the
strikers after the WLB had re-
fused TO rule until the strikers
returned TO work, declaring II
would not be terrorized and would
resist any effort of labor TO doml-
nate its decision.
At last nights mass meeting,
held at Local l57. Fourteenth and
McGraw. when the 1000 delegates
10 the maintenance council and
local union presidents were told
the officials had been delayed, the
announcement was met with boos
and Kisses
\ mad rush for public address
microphones followed, with about
20 delegates and local presidents
trying TO address the crowd at
once.
After a confused, wild interlude
of ID minutes, during which sew
eral demands were made for con-
tinuation and spread Of the strike,
delegate made a motion 10 re-
cess the meeting until 8 a. m.
today. TIL motion was adopted
with only one dissenting vote.
Nestor B. Dessy president OF
UAW-CIO Local 235, attempted
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-05
lO.987 Jap
Death Toll

PEARL HARBOR. Oct. 5 (INS)
The Jap death toll on the en-
hattled Palau Islands was set at
l0.987 today IN Pacific Fleet
headquarters communique. which
said Americans had virtually COM
pleted hopping up operations on
Peieiiu and Angular islands.
Headquarters also revealed that
L. s. planes scored a direct hit
on an enemy cargo vessel near
Chchi Jima in the Bonlns. and
blasted Paramushlru IN the kurl-
les and the Pagan islands.
Marine corps planes continued
their raids against hy-paSsed Jap
bases in the MarshallS Islands.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-05
Il Jap Ships
Hit byBonnbs

GEN. MacARTHUR'S HQ.,
NEW GUINEA. Oct. 5 QNS)-
Widespread aerial attacks in the
southwest Pacific area sank or
heavily damaged IL enemy vessels,
in the Philippines, CelebeS and(
Moluccas, Gen. Macarthur an
nounced today.
In the Ceram-Amboina area,
fighter-bombers destroyed four
small Jap freighters and smashed
Laha and Haroekoe airdromes.
A single patrol plane at Basilan
Island. Philippines, sank a Jap
medium freighter.
In the Celebes patrol planes de-
stroyed or damaged a 2,000-ton
enemy freighter-transport, several
bargeS and three small fFeighters.
Air attacks against Jap posi-
-tionS in the ffdimahcra area sank
a schooner and damaged enemy
occupied villages.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-05
Bombers Roar
To Dutch Coast

LONDON. oct 5 GNS) -
Strong forces OF Allied bombers
headed our toward me = u h
coast today after concentrated
air blows on Nazi U-boat pens
AZ Bergen. NORWAY
Italy-baSed heaVleS blaSted
Munich rail ~e~ters and key rail
points on the Brrnner Pass Inc.
-Four warehouses we're set afire
% miles west of Nantua and
British Mosquitoes hit KaSScl and
other obleCtlveS IN western Ger
many
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-05
New Storm Near
On Security Taxes

WASHINGTON, Oct QNS)-The proposal of
Senator Vandenberg cancel proposed doubling of social
security pay roll taxes JAM expected to touch of
lively battle when Congress convenes Nov IA
The issue may preciptate conflict between Congress
and the President who has backed the social security board
vigorously opposed TO postponement of the increase.
Roosevelt explained his attitude when he vetoed the
bill early this year and the Presidents declaration that
cost the treasury provoked of
sharpest protests of Senator Barley D of Kentucky
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-05
-Typhus Epidemic
Spreads in Europe

PARIS. Oct. s (INS)-There is
a possibility of an outbreak of
typhus in the European theater of
operations, Col. John f. Gordon,
chief of the division of preventive
medicine. warned here.
A wave of typhus already has
spread far beyond its usual limits
in Poland Russia and the Bal
kans. and was present last year
in Germany and Normandy he
warned.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-05
Purse Disappears

SAGINAW. oct 3 Mrs. Olive
B8Hfland. 3ft0 East. told police
her purse containing TWO $50 navy
checks. q S6i widows pension
check $50 cash and seven No. 4
ration books disappeared as she
Shoped in a 5-and-l0 yesterday