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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-04-05
Deserter From Marines
Is Captured In Norfolk

NORFOLK, Va, April A.
John William Roberts, Jr., of
Marston, N. c., has been appre-
hended by FBI agents following
his desertion from the Marine
Corps at Camp Lejeune, N. c.,
nine months ago, Harry M. Kim
ball, local FBI official announced
yesterday.
Roberts was taken into custody
at Newport News, where he was
employed by construction COM
pany.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-04-05

iii Violet doesn't unveil the Lady
in Red.
Popular Abe Tourist will
straighten out his difficulties with
Jimmy Coffield in the supporting
match. There seems to be quite
a bit of friction between these two
lads, and this specially arranged
"grudge match should clear up
the differences and also afford To-
cal fans chance to see some
scientific wrestling.
The doors will open at 7:15 and
the matches will start at $3.50
sharp. Fans having reservations
are asked to get their tickets
today and avoid the congestion a:
the box office tomorrow night.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-04-05
Murel Nemack Signs AS
Tulane Backfield Coach

NEW ORLEANS, April 4.-(P)-
DR.. Wilbur C. Smith, athletic direc-
tor of Tulane University, announc-
ed today that Murel Nemeck, for
mer backfield coach at Centre Col
lege, had been named backfield
coach at Tulane, effective immedi-
ately.
Nemeck, So. native of Wayne,
Okla, coached formerly at South
western. He played football at Ar
kansas Tech and also at Centre,
where he starred as fullback in
1929-30.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-04-05
HELD INSANE

WINsTON-sALEM, April AZ
Walter J. Lloyd, 49-year-old la
borer. was held insane when he
was brought into court yesterday
to- answer a charge of shooting his
wife in the arm March 7. The
court ordered him confined to a
mental hospital.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-04-05

Errors-shaughnessy, Bozich 2, Griegel
2, Brown 2, Perry, Wood, Richkus 2, Will
son, Gibson, Evans. Runs batted in-Wll-
SON 3. Kohler, Gibson, Perry, Brunwas-
ser. George 2, Becker 2, Shaughnessy.
stolen bases-B ker, Shaughnessy,
wood, Wilson, Richkus, Gibson 2. Sacri-
fice-Riggan. Left on bases-Pre-FliEht7 Z,
N. C. State 10. Bases on balls, off-Rfg-
gan 2. Nicholas 2, Waller 8, Knutson 2,
Rodenbush, Cleveland. Struck out, BY
Riggan g. Nicholas 3. Hits, off-Nicholas
10 in 1-3 innings; Bryan 0 in z-S;
Waller in Is: Knutson in (pitched
to two batters): Rodenbush in 2-3;
Cleveland 0 in l. Wild pitch-Knutson.
Losing pitcher-Nicholas. Umpires-Bank-
ston and Baker Time of game-2:35.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-04-05

xbatted for Bryan in 7th.
xxbatted for Dodenbush in sth.
zbatted for Hiner1nan in 9Th.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1945-01-25
STATE SUPREME COURT
O.K's CONSTITUTIONAL
CONVENTION

The state supreme court hand
ed down a declaratory opinion
last week to the effect that the
recent special session of the leg
islature had the right to call a
constitutional convention for the
purpose of amending the consti-
tuition so as to permit all persons
from this state in the armed for
ces to vote without the payment
of poll taxes.
The next move will be for the
Governor to call an election for
the purpose of voting whether to
call such constitutional conven-
ton or not. Governor Darden is
expected to call such an election
to be held within the next ninety
days.
If a majority vote to call a con
,vention, then the legislature will
again be called into extra session
to provide for election of mem
bers of the constitutional con-
vention. Then within a specified
time, the convention will meet
and act upon the amendment to
be proposed. Next, if the consti-
tutional convention decides, there
will be an election to either rati-
fly or reject the action of the con
vention.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1945-01-25
SPLASHDAM BOY HELPS
KEEP SUPPLIES ROLLING
TO OUR FIGHTING MEN

Norfolk, Jan. 20-Among the
crewmen of the USS LST-500,
which plies the English Channel
with supplies for the Allied ar
mics in Europe, is one Dickinson
county man, Basil Francisco of
Splashdam.
The LST-5O0 was in the first
wave of ships to discharge their
D-Day loads on a Normandy
beach. Today, most of the men
and supplies that she discharges
are being used on German soil.
In spite of many a close shave
good luck has followed the 500
since the day she was nearly de-
stroyed by U-boats which attack
ed the convoy in which she cross
ed the Atlantic. Two ships near
her were sunk in matter of sec
onds.
Then came D-Day. and bomb
ing and strafing by Nazi planes.
The crew never got more than
two or three hours sleep a night
but the gunners were able to
beat off all attacks. Mines were
were an even greater danger.
Francisco recalls several mines
that exploded just where the 500
had passed, but none damaged
her.
Francisco, the son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Ed Francisco of Splashdam,
attended Haysi High School pri-
or to his entry into the Naval Re
serve, July, 1943.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1945-01-25
VIRGINIA LEGISLATORS
GET $3.50 FOR 2-DAY JOB

Richmond, Va.,- Virginia leg
islators who participated in the
States briefest special session of
the General Assembly, two
day affair-win be paid at the
rate Of $3.50 a day for their la
bors- the entire $3.50 to which
they are entitled for a 3O-day
session, although the session last
ed only two days.
There's catch in it however.
because they didn't adjourn but
merely recessed, subject to recall
within 80 days if anything hap
pens to the one bill they passed
the calling of a constitutional
convention restricted to soldier
voting consideration.
If referendum is called un-
der the bill and if the people in
that referendum decide on the
convention, another session Sand
another $500 job) is in prospect.
This is true because the Assem-
I y
bly, at the next session" must
provide machinery for the cleo
ton of delegates to the Constitu-
tlonal Convention.-Exchange,
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1945-01-25
Farmers Make
Plans For Big
Crop Year

Representatives OF the Agricul-
ture Extension Department OF
Blacksburg and the Farm Secur-
ity Administration met leading
farmers at the courthouse here
last week and discussed every
possible phase of the farm pro-
gram for the coming season out
lining what they considered the
best course for all farmers and
gardeners.
P. H. Hart spoke of the soil
conservation program, of the need
OF lime and fertilizer for farms
and the quickest and best meth
Cd of securing same and apply
ing it.
B. A. Warmer, district agent
from Blacksburg, discussed live
stock production needs. He urg-
ed that farmers put out the larg-
est and best and most varied gar
dens possible, since it will be
imperative that rural people pro-
duce practically all the vege-
tables they will need during the
coming year.
The planting of pine and any
timber suitable for pulp was urg
ed. as well as the use of more
hybrid seed corn. Some farmers
were reported to have raised ov-
er one hundred bushels of hybrid
corn on one acre of prepared
ground.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1945-01-25

Tracy Boggs, seaman LIST
class, son of Mrs. Sarah BoggS,
entered the service in October,
1943, He had his boot training
at Sampson, N. Y. and was
sent to the west coast in Dec,
1943. He is now serving aboard
the U.S.S. Tennessee, which
ship took part in the naval bat
tie of the Philippines. He re-
ports seeing 8 Jap ships go
down in a very few minutes,
two baltlewagons, two cruis-
ers and four destroyers.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1945-01-25
C. C. WARS RECEIVES
SOUVENIRS FROM
GERMANY

Sgt. John Nastoi, son-in-laW OF
c. C. Wars, of Georges Fork, has
served in the army nine years,
part of the time in the Pacific
and now in Germany.
He recently sent the Wars fam
lily number of sovenirs from
both areas. including a ring from
the finger of a dead Jap soldier,
a German bayonet, a bundle of
table linens, knives and forks
and perhaps other items.
He was with the American pa
troll captured in Germany short
time ago, the greater part OF
whom were killed by the Ger
mans, but Sgt. Nastoi was among
those who broke away and ran
for it, making his way back to
the American lines. He forthwith
sent an air mail letter to his
folks to let them know that he
was one Of the lucky few to es-
cape.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1945-01-25
SERVICES HELD AT HOME

Special services were held at
the home of Gerge Sine, of Skeet
rock, last Sunday by Elder A. R.
Singleton, for Mr.. Sine who is
gravely i'll and not expected to
recover. He joined the church at
these services.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1945-01-25

Give Fleming, Of Flemingtown
son of Floyd Fleming, has joined
the Merchant Marines as first
cook. He served some SIX years
in the regular army, chlelly as a
cook.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1945-01-25
Over The Backyard
Fence
Contributed by J. B. Phipps,
Ash Camp Ky.)
Home Front Challenged

Home Front Challenged
A scrap of paper fluttered on
the lonely beach somewhere in
New Guinea when 1t. JamSe
Eldridge Odell landed there. The
young lieutent picked it up cas-
ually and was surprised to find
a poem written on it.
The poem carried no signature,
nor was there hint as to its or
igin. Except that the meter and
rhyme show evidence of studied
workmanship, the poem might
have been the sudden expression
of feeling from men at the front
to the people at home. It read:
So you're tired Of working, mister
and you think you'll rest a bit.
You been working pretty steady
and you're getting sick of it.
Cou think. the war is ending, SO
you're slowing down the pace.
That's what you may be thinking
sir, but it just amt the case.
What would you think sir if we
quit because we're tired, too?
we're flesh and hood and human
and we're just as tired as you.
Did you ever dig foxhole, and
climb down deep inside,
And wish it went to China, SO
you'd have some place to hide.
while mtored "buzzards" packed
with guns were circling overhead
And filled the ground around you
with hot, exploding lead?
And did you ever dig out mister
firm debris and dirt,
And feel yourself all over to see
where you were hurt,
And find you couldn't move
though you weren't hurt at all
And feel so darned relieved that
you'd just sit there and bawl?
Were you ever hungry, mister
not the kind that food soon gluts,
But gnawing, cutting hunger
that bites into your CUTS?
It's a homesick hunger mister,
and it digs around inside,
And it's got you in its clutches
and there is no place to hide.
Were yu ever dirty, mister, not
the wilty-collar kind,
But the oozy, Shiny messy dirt
and gritty kinds that grind?
Did you ever mind the heat, sir,
not the kind that makes sweat run
But the kind. that drives you
crazy It'll you even curse the sun.
Were, you ever weary, mister; I
mean dog-tired, you know
When you feet. amt got no feel
(Turn to back page)
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1945-01-25

Mrs. w. c. Fine of Clinchco is
having The Herald sent to Mrs.
T. D. selfe, of Praise, KY.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1945-01-25

Among the best caterpillar operators
the South Pacific is Willie Davis of Mr.. Toie
Norland Sg. Davis past
10 months serving with the 86i tn Engineers the
row. left right: Del Clifford Westport
Me-. James Mundy York Pa; Willie Davis Norand left
right Oris Fowler Woodbine Clement Kilgore
The Nome nugget., 1945-08-24

Tokyo radio said that radioac- tivity with which Hiroshima was blasted by atomic bomb is taking a mounting death toll weeks after the day of attack. In the fourteen days following the raid the death toll mounted from thirty thousand to sixty thousand.
 The broadcast recorded by (P) said servicemen working in the area on reconstruction a week af- ter the attack to have a severely diminished number of red and white corpuscles. Investigations
The Nome nugget., 1945-08-24
Typhoon Lashes Tokyo: Plans Go Forward

MANILA, Aug. 24-lP)-Allied occupation forces will expand their grip on Japan from Tokyo to Kyushu the southernmOst home island on September first, four days after MacArthur's scheduled landing near the typhoon crippled capital.
 Jap government Imperial head quarters announced that Tokyo had informed General MacAr- thurs headquarters that typhoOn howled through Kacto district early Thursday morning and in terferred with preparations for Allied preparations there. There was no direct request for a post ponement of Tuesdays major landings, however. Presumably the storm affected principally the preparations for the advance units.
 Japan said airborne forces will reach Kyushu's Kanoya airfield September first. Todays Jap lan- guage communique reported one day after the surrender is signed aboard the Battleship Missouri i'll Tokyo Bay the seaborne forces will follow.
The Nome nugget., 1945-08-24
Salmon Pack Tagging Half
 Million Gases

WASHINGTON, Aug. 24-(P- This seasons pack of Alaska sal mon is tagging nearly half mil lion cases behind last years pro- duction total. Forty five may be the smallest peak since nineteen twenty-seven.
 This outlook is reported by the Office of the Coordinator of Fish cries. By August eleventh the pack had reached three million two hundred thirty thousand cases as compared to three million six hun dred ninety-four, thousand cases by August twelfth of last year.
The Nome nugget., 1945-08-24
Death Toll From Atomic Bomb Still Mounting In Hiroshima

in the city showed that "radioac- tivity caused by fission of urani- um used in atomic bombs was taking a toll of mounting deaths. Moreover, it was causing persons engaged in reconstruction work in Hiroshima to suffer various sicknesses and ill health.
 Tokyo broadcasts have been re- ferring repeatedly to the atomic bomb raids on Hiroshima and Ma gasaki, possibly in a bid for world sympathy.
The Nome nugget., 1945-08-24
Moscow Will Send Airborne Troops To HOkkaidO

An official Jap broadcast as- serted that Moscow has announced intentions of sending airborne troops ot the Jap island of Hok- kaido. The broadcast to General MacArthur said According to a Moscow broadcast it is reported that the Soviet Union is about to send airborne troops to Hokkaido. Should his report prove true it will be greatly regretted by the Jap government which is doing it's best in order to fulfill all your re- quirements by placing the army, navy and civilians under strict control"
The Nome nugget., 1945-08-24
Forest Fire Burns 18O,OOO Acres

PORTLAND, Aug. 24-1P)- A tremendous new blaze roaring through the green pine timber standings in this state where still burning fires have already black ,ened one hundred eighty thousand acres, a new fire, which mush- roomed from a small lightning [ strike to a conflagration within two days and leaped through five thousand acres in the high Cas- cades south of Mt. Jefferson.
The Nome nugget., 1945-08-24
FRANK DAUGHERTYS
 ARRIVE FROM CAMEL

MT. and Mrs. Frank Daugherty and son arrived from Gambel where they have been teachers for the Bureau of Indian Affairs for many years. Their good work is shown by the fine condition of the natives. Financially this group of Eskimos is better than any other group known. The Daughter tvs are planning on teaching at Golovin this coming winter.
The Nome nugget., 1945-08-24
BRITISH ASK HELP
SCHOOL PRINCIPAL
 AND FAMILY ARRIVE

After what they all enthusias- tically describe as a wonderfully happy and interesting trip down the Yukon from Nenana to St. Michael, and by small boat to Unalakleet and thence to Nome by Wien Airlines, the new superin- tendent of our school, J. w. Thompson and their three chil- dren arrived in Nome Thursday afternoon. MT. and Mrs. Thomp- son, Martha Ellen IS, Jerry 13, and Mary Joan 9, are all interest ed in Alaska.
 They want to learn about it, see it, live in it. They love it's peo- pie for their friendliness and their hospitality, and they are looking forward eagerly to their home among us. MT. and Mrs. Thomp- son claim the state of Iowa as their home state. They have both had years O. experience in the states of Iowa and Washington, and their one year in Alaska.
 Mrs. Thompson is graduate of the Iowa State Teachers College and has had special framing for kindergarten anG primary work The School btord asked her to teach the first and second grades this coming year, and we welcome her to our staff.
 MT. Thompson had W ork in th@ Iowa State Teachers College, the University of Minnesota North western University and the Uni versity of Chicago and its Law School. He has had experience in business and law, but he comes to Nome as a man primarily inter- ested in education. It is his desire to build up a strong school with a finely trained, cooperative staff; one that will serve in the com munity.
 MT. Thompson has already been of great service to the school board through correspondence in contacting teachers and has shown his interest in many ways. The members of the Board are corfi- dent of his ability to head our
The Nome nugget., 1945-08-24
B. w. NELLY ENROUTE TO THE NORTH

B. w. Nelly, U. s. Marshal from Kotzebue, who has been in An- chorage, arrived with the Alaska Airlines, enroute to the North.
 MT. Nelly has been in Anchor age for the past two weeks. His son Wilfred, formerly of Nome, died in the hospital last week and was buried Saturday in the An chorage cemetery. He is survived by his father, and his wife and child in Anchorage.
The Nome nugget., 1945-08-24
Quotas Off On
 Passenger Cars

WASHINGTON, Aug. 24-AP- WIPE removed all quotas on the production of passenger cars, leav- ing the industry free to make as many as their capacity permits.
The Nome nugget., 1945-08-24
Lend Lease End uts Britain In
 Bad Position

LONDON, Aug. 24-(P)-Prime Minister Attlee told Commons the sudden end of lend lease put Brit ain in a "very serious financial position" Winston Churchill said she couldn't believe that "this is the last word" Attlee said the British government hoped that lend lease wouldn't be ended without prior consultation
 In response, Churchill, now leader of the opposition, declared he couldn't believe that United States would proceed in such rough manner as to hamper their faithful ally who held the fort while their own American arma- ments were being prepared"
 Attlee cautioned members of the House to exercise utmost re- straint" within and without the Chamber in commenting on the situation. Churchill agreed that de- Sbate now might be detrimental to national interests.
 Atlee disclosed that Lord Hali- fax, British ambassador to United States during the wartime coali- ton government had been invited to return to Washingon to negoti- ate financial arrangements to sue ceed lend lease.
The Nome nugget., 1945-08-24

. WASHINGTON, Aug. 24-(P)- Foreign Economic Administrator Crowley said responsible British officials must recognize that lend lease would have to be discon- tinued after the Jap war and could not be used as part of her post war rehabilitation and reconver- sion program"
 , Commenting on Prime Minister Attlee's statements, Crowley said "In no discretion under the law or under promises made to the Con- gress of the United States by the late President Roosevelt or Truman as Vice-President and as President. I repeatedly stated that lend lease couldn't be used for postwar re- mobilization"
The Nome nugget., 1945-08-24

Commercial mint culture first began in New York State more than 100 years ago.
The Nome nugget., 1945-08-24

teaching staff as superintendent and welcome him most cordially to our town.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1945-01-11
President And Land Praise
Seamen's Achievements

Washington, ID. C. OLNS). - The
heroic wartime achievements of the
United States merchant marine were
highly commended in holiday greet
ings extended to the merchant sea-
men by Franklin ID. Roosevelt and
Vice Admiral Emory S. Land, War
Shipping Administrator.
"At the Christmas season particu-
larly these men feel that they are the
forgotten men of the war;" wrote the
President in letter to Admiral Land.
"They are not. They deserve and re-
ceive from all of us, our thanks for
the job they have done"
Admiral Land, in a special message
to the seamen, urged them to continue
their unrelenting efforts to finish the
task so that in the future christmas
may be celebrated in a world of peace
among those we love-"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1945-01-11
Roosevelt Bldsts
Avery; Word CO.
Stores Seized
2 Million Dollars In
Back Wages Due

The head of the second largest mail
order house in the nation virtually
was accused of sabotaging the war
effort as President Roosevelt ordered
Army seizure of the firms stores in
nine cities. The man is Sewell l..
Avery The firm is Montgomery Ward
& Co.
Avery, who is rumored to be on
the way "out" of his job, was accused
by FDR of waging "a bitter fight
against the bona fide unions of
(Ward) employees throughout the
war in reckless disregard of the gov
ernment's efforts to maintain har-
mony between management and la
bor."
The President ordered seizure of
Ward properties in Chicago, st. Paul,
Denver, Detroit, Dearborn and Royal
Oak, Mich, Jamaica, N. Y, San
Rafael, Calf, and Portland, Ore.
This is the third time in eight
months that Ward property has been
seized by the federal government, as
the aging Avery continues his four
year vendetta against wartime labor
regulations.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1945-01-11
Local Union IL

but the grapevine reports had it that
he is scouting for material for his
ball team.
Nomination of National officers and
delegates to the A. +. of l.. were
made with the interest of the trade
being the main issue in selecting
candidates.
Seeking to relieve the burden of our
financial secretary Larry Finlay, the
office of roll call secretary was ere
ated with Ernest Terrence being
named for that post.
In passing on the death claims of
two departed members, we were glad
to note that both brothers received
the maximum $500.
Delinquent members will be mott
fed that arrangements must be made
at once to clear up their arearages or
they will face suspension. The Local
has been very lenient in the past, but
in so doing have found some who are
taking advantage Of it. Check your
dues book and make sure you are in
good standing.-O. G. II.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1945-01-11
Larry FinldY Is
Named President
Of Central Body
Grafton Retained For
18th Consecutive Term

Larry Finlay, jiggerman at Taylor
Smith & Taylor and secretary-treas-
urer of Local Union No. 12 was
elected to his third consecutive term
as president of Trades and Labor
Council at the annual election meet
ing, held Wednesday, January 4.
Elected to serve with Mr.. Finlay
for the ensuing term were:
Arthur Williams of Carpenters Lo-
cal 328, vice president; James II.
Grafton, jiggerman at plant No. g.
Homer Laughlin China Company
secretary-treasurer for his 18th con-
secutive term; William H. Darlington
Of the State, County and Municipal
Employees Union, sergeant-at-arms
and Ralph Cunningham, Local Union
1863, N. B. Of o. p, inspector.
William Martin Of Bakers Local
61, Joseph Winters Of Retail Clerks
Local 1873, and Smith Fowler of Build
ing Service Employees Local 257
were named trustees for one-year
terms.
William Ashbaugh, veteran mem
Der of Local Union No. A, Casters,
N. B. Of o. p, and past president OF
the council, installed the new officers
and also seated delegates from the
various locals affiliated with the coun-
Gil. Each affiliated local is allowed
five delegates to the council.-O. c.