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Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1945-05-31
Insurance Payn,ents

Approximating At per cent of total
payments of life insurance cornpa-
MES in 1914, death benefits amount
ed to 1880. 972, 674 for new high,
the National Underwater reported.
With total payments reaching ST.
GIG, 100, 689, highs were also recorded
for matured endowments at SAT-
1913, 401 and annuities at $l98, 308, 3T7.
Low since 1929, accidental death
benefit claims for the U. S. and Can
ada in 1894 declined to $40. 1866. $40.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1945-05-31

Standing three decks below point
vhere Jap suicide pilot crash-diued
on navy hospital ship "Comfort," army
Nurse 1t. Mary Jensen OF San Diego,
Calf, vie,Us tWisted ,oreckage. 1t. Jen.
sen had stepped from, surgery supply
room, less than minute before it Was de.
moIished BY explosion.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1945-05-31

Hitler stirred Ger
many in his hey
day, a huge bronze
swastika fell prize
to General Patton's
third army in its
capture of the Nazi
shrine city and will
be shipped to the
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1945-05-31
EUROPE:
Army Rules

Declaring 'the Allied government
of Germany is going to be military,
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1945-05-31
PATTON'S PRIZE

Fixed to the rostrum of Luitpold
arena in Nuremberg where Adolf
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-12-01
Navv's Views on Unihcation

Thus far in the debate untcaon of the armed services the Navy though adamanty maintaining its oppos ton to the proposal overmached by weight ot ag ment as well weight of numbers.
 In his speech to the American Legion convention, Ad-
 ra King urged that the subject be given "a complete thor ough and unbiased study by specially appointed board o civilians and military leaders The following day Navy sec retary Forresa suggested that Bernard M Baruch be ap pointed head of Presidential commission to make that n vestigatOn.
 It might have strengthened these recommendations if the two distinguished Navy men who made them had oe- scrbed the proposed procedure specifically AS s there is difficulty in imagining what more compete thorough and unbiased study would De poSSlpe Ihh 'e war just completed .,.
 For almost four years the armed services operated with exemplary unity They had an example of unified drecon for Mr Rooseves role of Commander in Chief active rather than tituar Britans overall military pohcy too was largely shaped by Mir Churchill The Combined ana Joint Chiefs of Staff provided examples of coordnated carrying of unified policy and strategy both national ana international. e
 It has become known since the ended that lack of unity contributed to the defeat of Germany and Japan The fact that Hitler listened time to Goerng at another to his ntution and occasionally to his generals cerany ac counted of the strategic mistakes that allowed the Allies to hang until they could gather strength The as have also told of jealousy suspicion and lack ot CO., operation between their army and nav,
 Mr. Forresta that reorganization ot the armed set of today may not conform to the new weapons or to- morrow He suggests that commission Of nquTy mght recommend an independent service using guided mSsleS and that strategic force of heavy bombeS may De judged as dead as the horse and buggy.
 All that is true but it does not seem cnchlng agu- ment against unifcaon. Quite the contrary If Mr. For resta believe that naves obsoee-and obVlo y he doesnt-then it would sensible to coordinate Ie operations the Navy with these weapons as etcen as possible rather than to separate them
 General Arnold has stated frankly that today military aircraft are already in the category Yet he favors uncaion services And he does not the air arm unified national defense becoming oosolete just because it's present fighter and bombers are
 That air has been the stimulus and laboratory ol defense separation from the other components ot military progress in military aviation from the woodandcanvas b plane to potes aircraft rocket missiles and bombs con troed by radar and teevson There reason why progress should continue with the help of the aVlato specialists who have brought thus far Nor does seem logical that these developments would better serve national strength.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-12-01
By Peter Edson

problem dumGed in his lap will meet with some Con gressional opposition. Senators in particular don't want to give Wallace authority over loan policies.
 More clothing and consumers goods are expected to find their way into the stores after Dec l. instead of after Jan l. says Civilian Production Administrator Jack Small If it happens, old business practice will be responsible It's custom in trade that goods delivered in December be billed in January and paid for if sold in the latter month Any manufac turers wholesalers or distributors who have been in the excess profits class therefore take payment in 1946 for goods delivered in 1945 without having such receipts subject to excess profits taxes since the excess profits tax law is repealed as of Jan l.
 On the eve of his resignation Assistant Secre- tary of War in charge of military government John policy of withdrawing U s forces from Germany and Japan fast Our armies engender respect for the United States" says McCloy. When we move out of country, it is taken as a sign that We are losing interest in that All countries look to the United States today for leadership and it's not just gimme proposition, either.
 That 3COO0O tons of food that Maj. Gen. Lucius Clay has requested for Germany does not represent a deficit which must be filled to keep the Germans from starving this winter. Gen. Clay now has on hand enough food to give Germans in the U. s. oc- cupation 1850 calories a day It was decided at Potsdam that the Germans should not be fed better than people of surrounding liberated" coun- tries Polish food supplies permit diet of 1,6O0 calories day The 100000 tons of additional food supplies for Germany would be used only in the four-power Allied Control Commission in Berlin should decide that the Germans should eat better than the Poles
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-12-01
Revising the Veto

"In the light of discoveries about atomic energy An thonv Eden told the British House of Commons, Il think that the San Francisco Charter should be revised particular y with respect to the veto which anachronsm the modern world"
 The Charters veto provision is than an anachron- lsn It completely cynical goahead for any aggressof which might wish involve the world in another war; since gives the power to stop all effective actoS bv the United Nations Organization the only nations pow erful enough to start another world conflict.
 The discovery of atomic energy did not reveal this 1act It only emphasized it with frightening intensity As Mr. Eden suggested sealed the doom of intense naonas and the old concepts of sovereignty.
 The veto proposal was Russa's idea And though the other of the Big Five went along there little doubt that they would be only too happy to abolished The question is whether this weapon of incredible destruc ton will persuade the Soviet to reverse it's pres ent stand on the veto which appears to be even more u workable present differences between the Soviet ana Anglo American government persist. m
 If the atomic bomb accomplish that change It Will indeed be triumph science in the sphere of world potc
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-12-01

when it has no idea of how strong or how ready the fighting arms are? And, conversely how can the armed forces know whether to put on extra pressure in training or preparing, if they have no oea of the status of critical international relations?
 The shocking thing about the Pearl Harbor testl- mony is the revelation that the entire nation was placed in jeopardy because there was no hason be- tween these departments not even through the medium of the White House. The trouble between Admr. Richardson and President Roosevelt has now been placed the record by the admraps testimony President Roosevelt isn't here to give his explanation but there seems to be reason to doubt the admrals version. And there is ground for defending the Roosevelt decision.
 The trouble between the two gentlemen was head-on collision between seaborne reality and chair borne psychology. Richardson told the President, that the Pacific fleet in shape to fight, that 1t was undermanned, and that Pearl Harbor was a dangerous berth for it. His proposal was that it be withdrawn from Hawaii, moved back to the Pacific coast and hurried to full fighting strength before flirting further with fate
 The Presidential counter was, in effect, that he was playing diplomatic poker with Japan and that even the United States, under the circumstances was bluffng, he left 1t wiser to run the bluff He representing this country taking tightening stand against the Japanese war lords, ard he felt that if the fleet pulled out of Hawaii the Japs
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-12-01
Pearl HarbOr FiaScO By BiH Cunningham

would misread this a sign of backing down.
 But the rest of the miserable story the State Department chapters EXSecretary of State Hull, who was actually dealing with the Japs, has testified that he didn't know Admr Richardson had told the President that the Navy not ready That means that without knowing what his weapons were he was dealing in the dark Added to this is now the B. Grew, personally representing US in Tokyo He testimony of Former Ambassador to Japan Joseph says he didn't even know we'd cracked the Japanese code All his statements about what Japan would or wouldn't do guesses based upon his observation and local information, he said. So he too, with out full information. There absolutely no inter change of all this vital information.
 Trying to pile it all on the grave of the late President Roosevelt will do good at this particular stage That, after fashion, is little than Mon day morning quarter backing. He ordered the psycho- logical instead of the practical play It not only didn't work but the ball bounced cut of Hulls hands straight into Tojos who it completely through for a touchdown.
 But the moral, already apparent. if the hearings stopped now, is that the system is wrong. Maybe a Presidents got right trying to be Commander in Chief. It doesn't make sense for civilian even if elected to the Presidency. to be in position to overrue the opinions of profound military experts.
 Unity at the top can be achieved in several ways We evidently had it after this tragic bunder with Admr. Leahy Admr. King, Gen. Marshall and the rest forming a close and cooperating corporation. Maybe best be achieved in the future by uniting the Army and Navy under one head and calling it,, perhaps the Department of National Defense.
 But however it's accomplished, the State De- parment should certainly least have sitter right in with the rest and that State Department should be equipped with recognized Foreign Information system-call it Secret Service, and baldy, a Spy Service, if you will
 We've come out in tough world We hope it's a better ole but the best way to make 1t better one is to be eady to insist that it become better one, enough about it to fight for it if we have to- but to encvgh akcu ourselves to be certain that we can protect ourselves at all times.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-12-01

had to be pointed out to Barkley, who then extended his welcome all over again.
 It's still no handicap to have Missouri connections if you want job in the Truman administration Maple Harl, state banking director from Colorado has been nominated for the office of director of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation by President Truman He may look like outsider. But Mrs. Harl comes from Missouri He succeeds Leo Crowley.
 Idaho's Sen. Glen H. Taylor is grooming himself to become champion of small business. Job ahead of him is to try to bring some order out of present government confusion in aiding the little fellows Idea of transferring Smaller War Plants Corp oration to Commerce Department has been baked be- cause the law creating SWPC won't permit it. Fed eral Reserve Board and Reconstruction Finance Corp oration have divided authority other small bus- ness loans. Veterans administration can guarantee private bank loans to CTS wanting to go into business for themselves. Commerce is now limited to giving free advice Henry Wallaces plan to have the whole
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-12-01

none other than Chiane Kai-shek more recently opponent of Russia
 Later this writer visited Chiang's stronghold in South China. He wss In command of the whampo Cadets, Red Chinese army, trained by Soviet off cers including the famous comrade Borodin.
 To Brtons and Americans at that time, Chiang Kai-shek and Communism were one and the same thing Both equally hated-and for good reason. In Canton he and his so-caled Communists had clamped down a boycott against Americans Brtons, an all foreigners that was no joke. Grass grew in the streets of the foreign settlement The American consul general, Douglas Jenkins, could be each morning sweeping out his office. Every foreign off cal in Canton cooked his own neas-and considered himself lucky to get good. Only numerous aspect watching the tall and bearded French consul pull his groceries home from the commissary in chid's toy wagon every morning.
 That was exactly 20 years ago. Since then, Chiang Ka-Shek has become the great friend of the Ameri- cans and British and enemy of the Russians-though quite capable of patching up new division of Man churian spells with them as reported this week. I mention this because such changes are not uncommon in China. Neither civil There has been no period in the last 100 years of Chinese history when lord other did not have an army in the field jockeying for more revenue, more territory or more concubines
 At such times as I have visited China, it was an axiom that when the Chinese corn crop cut, the troops would start moving. Even Chinese lords had some consideration for peasants crops ans the countrys food supply
 It was into this vortex of political intrigue that Pat Hurley our naive and delightful cowboy ambas- sador from Oklahoma, threw the full weight of the U.SA with all it's prestige all it's end-lease, all its Far East airplanes-and threw this weight on one side apparently realizing that it's chief was quite capable of making deal with his enemy, the Russians, whenever it expedient, behind Hurley's back.
 All this is why Hurley so at the State Departments Far Eastern experts who tried to him what was cooking Months ago they realized ub hp tn An1e r1O losing their lives for the benefit of Chinese lords Note Eleven U. s. plane crashes reported
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-12-01
In Today's Mail

word are to be placed in charge of the mentally ill, then the State has got to use a little more sense and formulate a living wage so that de- pendable individuals will be attract ed to the wards. So far as we know very few State Hospital heads ever plead for more money for their at tendants-the less they have to pay the better showing in their finan- cial reports to the "big wigs" at the State Capitol.
 The problem of ward help is one of the most important questions fac ing the State institutions. If we are to find a way to eliminate the drunks and buns the State has got to come across with more money Then a way will be assured to find the type of employe best qualified 1 the unpleasant job which as things stand today can at best only attract certain Irresponsible individuals and "screwballs," Any person familiar with State Hospital setups will agree that very often it is next to impoS- sible to tell who are patients and who are employees. May the clean air of adequate compensation blow ! through the regimes of the mental | hospitals. May the legislators of every State understand just what underpaying hospital help means in terms of decent care of our mental ly i'll fellow citizens who through no fault of their own are locked in'' smelly wards, in some cases poorly fed and in too many cases abused by drunks and buns parading them selves at attendants" Amid the wrecks of certain State Hospital setups in this day of alleged psy- chiatric progress, let our legislators be worthy in their motives and de- sires to help lead toward the prom ised land of better care of the sick in mind through the hiring of de- pendable employees clean in minc and who if of the right type are certainly worthy of better pay. Not until hospital help is paid a living wage and the right sort of mer hired vii human kindness and the red wine of willing sacrifice pre- dominate in the public psychiatrlt hospitals.
 EUGENE BERTRAM WILLARD
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-12-01
Congress Hears from the Country

When Price Administrator Chester BoWles laid down the "big idea that automobile manufacturers and dealers must sell 946 at 1942 prices he failed to reckon on the position of thousands of local dealers in nook and corner the United States who promptly up on her high heels and told Bowles stop bowling them More than three hundred Congressman showed what they thought about the OPA proposal by attending Committee meeting held by the House Small Business Committed That showed how House of Representatives feels about this genuine threat to the existence of auto dealers"
 Just "how anybody gets that way is hard to say but there have persistent efforts by OPA and other branches of the to force national industries to hold their prices down to prewar levels and then boost wages thirty per cent The silly argument that the added cost production would be made by tremendous in sales with the high volume making unit costs low
 Evidently the OPA officials and other brass hats were surprised when they found that the dealers all over the country immediately began to fight teir cause without regard to the manufacturers of automobiles Every nd cation is that this ctiona price fixing scheme the way to the boneyard.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-12-01
OUTLOOK NOT TOO ROSY FOR PSYCHIATRIC PATIENTS AS THE DAY OF CHEAPER HELP AND OVERWORKED HOS-
 PETALS APPROACHES
Everett, Mass, Nov. 29, 1945.

Everett, Mass,
 Nov. 29, l945.
 Editor of The Democrat:
 No other work is required to meet standards that are so eX&ctllg as the job of attendant in q public pSy- chiatric' hospital. Ye1 the pay for this difficult and even dangerous job ridiculously low and Connecticut and other States are counting time when another depresSloE will send masses of jobless vets and others to State Hospital doors clamDring for 1 jobs. In that day so eagerly antlcl- { pated by certain pSychiatric admin i iStratorS wages will be even lower i than they are today but many job less men will eagerly grab what is offered them by economy drunk , hospital heads. Nobody will gain ex- cept the State itself; the patients will be in the hands of new gang of buns and irresponSbleS, screw ! balls" to use a term recently as- cribed to many psychiatrlc attend ants by man with 20 years eXper- fence as a hospital empioye.
 This is not a very pleasant out | look and NOW is the time to make sure that future wages for ward work will be lot higher than they are today; that ward attendants will be responsible men (and Women) and that requirements and stand ards set by the hospitals themselves will be high. A peculiar type or in- dividual is required for ward work HE MUST BE TACTFUL, BUT NOT ! COMPROMISING: HE MUST BE AN IDEALIST, WITHOUT BEING IMPRACTICAL: HE MUST BE OF A KINDLY DISPOSITION, WITH OUT BEING TOO EMOTIONAL.
 Every State Hospital employe, fol the sake of the effectiveness Of his hard stewardship and for the satis- faction it brings into his own life should strive for a proper balance ir all of the matters mentioned. Per- lection in either of them is not easy of attainment and the line of de- marcation between the desirable anc undesirable in these attitudes i! not always easily fixed We have known through the years attend ants who have embodied all thest virtues in their ministrationS to thu mentally i'll. But there aren't man! such. But how in the name of tint are the right kind of ward employe to be recruited at the present lov wage paid for such exacting work If the laborer is worthy of his hir then surely those who engage il mental hospital work are entitled t, , a decent wage. If tactful men (ant Women) in the finest sense of tn
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-12-01
The Firing Line
 By D. N. T.
ODE TO FOOTSTOOLS AND
 OTTONANS

When I consider moyeables like
 stools And haSsocks, stolid foothills of the
 chair, 1 often ponder over family rules That somehow always seems to
 place them there. The comfort in them, l believe, IS
 moot, For when I raise my large and
 weary feet, Intending to enjoy the parlor suit GOT, maybe-is or aint'S it parlor
 suite2 My spine, which is inheXible at
 best,
 Resents this alteration from the
 norm,
 And ashes come in contact with my
 vest:
 My spirit seems a little out of
 form,
 And then again, l all too often trip On ottomanS and all their crouch
 ing kind, And surly Caths spontaneously rip From lips-or less infrequently, my
 mind. Yet if the thing is absent, where
 sit,
 I raise (and this is mildly stated) I hate the thing abhor and rail
 at it,
 Yet, paradoXically, like it well. The huge United Steel Workers Union, with 100000 members, has voted in favor of striking for a pay increase of S2 day. Apparently American production figures it wor the war and has enough points fol a discharge. Major General L. R. Groves, heac of the famous Manhattan Epgin- eerS Project, favors the establish ment of a large stockpile of atomil bombs in this country. Therel probably be little bidding among cities anxious to become the stock pine site.
 It is revealed that birds actual. were cooked in flight by radio hea waves during our electronic war fare against the Axis. Next tim they'll probably find a way of bonn barding them with bread crumb and sage, so they'll come dowl stuffed.
 Boston Navy Yard has ney official name-"U. s. Naval Ship yard. Boston, Mass. "BOstonian will stick to Boston Navy Yard though; they couldn't even swallON the Bees" instead of the Braves.
 General Macarthur denies tha he is considering offers for hi memoirs, as recently stated in weekly news magazine. Some day perhaps, he will write his complet autobiography, and when he doe! we'll offer him title, free, grati! without charge and for no: "Fiv Star Final"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-12-01

little that had such great effect on civilization.
 Senate Majority Leader AL ben w. Barkley committed hor- rible diplomatic faux pas when Great Britain's Prime Minister Clement R. Attlee came up to Congress to deliver his speech. Not recognizing the prime minister in the party from the British en- bassy, Barkley stepped forward to give hearty welcome to the man at the head of the group. It wasn't Attlee. The prime minister
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-12-01

of motor cars - Fords, ,Buicks, Chevrolets of uncertain vintage all driven by Chinese chauffeurs. Putting across the plain, they pulled up at the water-hole where I was encamped.
 On the running board of each car was strapped a long wooden box packed with rifles. Inside each car were smaller boxes of car tridgeS.
 They were being shipped by Soviet Russia to stir up civil war in China. But their recipient was
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-12-01

LlOu at LIlt UUJ. MdyUt IIIH NAVY has the best idea, when it pro- poses that the Army, the Navy and the State Department be CO., ordinated. Certainly, they should share information as to what the score is at all times, inasmuch as the State Department is dealing with all foreign nations, while the army forces must be prepared to fight if the State Department can't settle things otherwise.
 How can the Department of
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-12-01

If you have children in the schools, see to it that they become members of the Junior Red Cross. Through it they can learn one of the best of all lessons-the lesson that each individual has share in civic and humanitarian responsi- bility.
 -Williamsport, Pa, Sun.