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Detroit evening times., 1945-06-17

ing Powder in the belief that IL will eman-
cipate them from undesirable infatuation
AYou have 10 guess at the virtues of some OF the
her canned magic, especially Five Finger
Grass" which does not sell very well in Florida
because nobody knows what it is supposed to do
for you or TO you.
IN SOMEWHAT the same class High John
the Conqueror Root" Devil Shoe String
Seven Holy Spirits Bath" and "Mo-Jo Loadstone,"
this last being under suspicion of having acquired
a Japanese taint
King Solomon Oil" and "Queen Elizabeth's
Root" IL applied to the skulls of male and female
TneFons respectively. supposed to bring good
results, il one has sufficient money and patience.
To be big shot in the community one uses
Power Oil" and il that fails, Mystic Controlling
Oil" Other popular powders Money Draw
ing" Fast Luck" and Magic Attraction"
Inspector Curtis ID. Sweat, in confiScating all
that magic merchandise in Florida and turning his
information to Federal authorities for action
in other states made mention of the super
natural pretense. which is the only reason any OF
il is sold, but he has the makers and sellers on
other counts. Among their violati OF the law,
the manufacturers failed to give their names and
specify the amount of the contents and what
would be most embarrassing. exactly what the
contents
Furthermore they must reveal what IL is sup
posed to be good for and. worst of all, TO print
definite instructions on how TO make IL work
This would be sad because IL the instructions
failed to bring results, somebody would be wide
Detroit evening times., 1945-06-17

the occupant 10 iedNe lIle mouse anu, WHICH Iel
replies darixly:
You better had-thats all-you better
Next day the occupant is alarmed TO see
local witch doctor, staring at his house,
across the street. II is not good manners
to ask a witch doctor what he is up to but
with him is the man who told the tenant he
better had. The fellow obligingly explains
that probably the doctor is watching TO see
IL happen.
"See what happen?" asks the occupant.
The other man then lets him understand
that certain little root has been hidden
on the place and he guesses its evil influ-
ences are about TO go to work. That Is
often all an occupant needs to know 10 make
him evacuate the premises as If he expected
a buzz bomb
The magic doesn't work on intelligent
people and has the further disadvantage that
a person who gets in that way can be rooted
out by the same method.
Roots of various kinds and shapes are
almost as popular as manufactured prod
ucts among Voodoo addcts. Thousands of
Lucky Hand Roots are sold. This root bears
a resemblance to a human hand and is
highly valued as well as highly priced be-
cause -s so they say il makes its owner
practically infallible in picking win
ming numbers in bolita or "the digits,"
as the numbers lottery is known
Lodestones are also considered ex-
tremely potent in Tending off various
evils or attracting certain forms of
Detroit evening times., 1945-06-17

good fortune. Most lodes are roughly oval pieces
of iron ore. They usually of high metal con-
tent and with enough magnetic power TO lift
iron filings
Sometimes these lodes are carried with iron
filings sticking to them, and then they called
"lodes with hair them"
box of lodeS may be bought for a quarter,
il you know the right places TO 60.
Sometimes. however, the same type OF lodes
are sold velvet padded jewel boxes for So and
$40. Among other things they supposed to
restore lost powers.
A LTHOUGH cigar stores, stationery stores and
~ drug stores in slum sections are the favorite
outlet for voodoo manufacturers, large amount
of the herbs, roots, incense and nonsense with
which practitioners the goddeSSeS of love
and chance sold by three or four mail order
houses which also dispense crystal balls to clair
voyants ($3 eachl and ectoplasm boxes to spiFitu-
aliSt mediums 1915 each).
Some firms offer special bargain on conjure
bags, advertised as item no true believer
should be without.
For only S2.25. it is possible to purchase box
containing Iodestone. some lodeStone powder,
pair OF Adam and Eve roots, a High John the Con
queror and a Low John the Conqueror, wahoo
bark, devils shoestring, some conservation oil,
an apostolic prayer for conSecrating same and
piece of chamois with which the customer
make himself bag to hold these things after
he has consecrated them.
But even without collection like this hanging
around his neck, dispenser of voodoo prepara-
tons is quite likely TO become rich.
Detroit evening times., 1945-06-17

price, but a letter
written with ii will
win the heart OF
the recipient. pro
vided IL contains
certain m a gic
words. But some
skeptics point out
that If you know
the right words.
they will MeEk jast
as well on the tele-
phone and besides
a letter can be used
against you, in case
of breach Of prom
ise suit, resulting
from tn @ uncross-
ing treatment.
Some customers
take the "Uncross-
Detroit evening times., 1945-06-17

open 10 civil and criminal
suits for fraud. Nor will
it do them any good 10
print. ITO be taken only as
advised by a witch DOCTOR"
because witch doctors make
and sell their own home
made magic goods.
The consumers of the
magic goods are largely but
not entirely Negroes, which
a natural, because belief in
lis line OF the supernatural
Vas part of the religious
faith of their ancestors. ALI
religions are entitled 10 be
tolerated and the 300 or
more witch doctors in
Florida can prove that at
least one of their fetishes
works miraculously.
The housing shortage in
Miami and other parts OF
-n1 anaEwpWcal- wxyUEuY
Detroit evening times., 1945-06-17

most efficacious when dropped in the boy friends
beer. II in spite of everything the gentleman
shows serious intentions only of getting away
from her the powder administratrix should sus-
pect that a rival is using Confusion Powder
price 81 so and up. You can't do thing with
man, while he's under the confusion spell.
The poor girls only hope is TO use Undressing
Powder" before ii is too late. This sovereign
remedy, If you know how TO work II, is supposed
TO be a psychic torpedo which will blow the most
devoted man right out of his true loves arms.
Fortunately few women seem 10 have the tech
nical skill TO the dreful love weapon. III II
does work, the girl must then throw away the rest
Of her "Uncrossing Powder and use its opposite,
Crossing Powder" which will bring the unre-
sponsive back TO her, except for that same
little catch of knowing how to use II.
Doves Blood Ink is about as good as can be
bought at the ten cent store for one tenth the
Detroit evening times., 1945-06-17

the state is equally as hard on all classes
of the population. Not only does the heavy
spending tourist have tough time 10 find
shelter for himself but il ne owns a house
and the tenants lease has expired il may
take him months TO evict him legally
Some of the less opulent know a method
that gets an occupant out of house, IN
hours or even minutes. The process is
Detroit evening times., 1945-06-17
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THE AMERICAN WEEKLY
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1945-11-29
Ciln1e1. Bledsoe
Is On Way Home

Pearl Harbor, T H. Gilmer L.
Bledsoe, Phi. M. &c, USNR, the
husband of Mrs. Mildred P. Bled-
soc, Of Todd, is on his way home.
Bledsoe is one of $3.50 high
point veterans whom the magic
Carpet" is bringing back to the
States aboard the USS Saratoga.
The USS Saratoga-one of more
than ESQ carriers, battleships
cruisers, and attack transports in
the Nays famed magic Carpet
fleet-left Pearl Harbor, Wed
nesday, November IA, and is
scheduled to Narrive in San Fran.
cisco about Sunday, November Is
Passengers will go directly tc
the Separation Centers nearest
their homes to complete the for.
mallties of obtaining their dis.
charges before returning to civ
ilian life.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1945-11-29
Scot Private Tells
How Silent Night
StiLIed War Guns

It was Christmas Eve, 1914, be-
tween Armentiers and Arras, while
Gordon Highlanders huddled in
trenches when somebody remem-
bered the day.
Jim, let's sing" one said to Pri-
vate James Sutherland-Watt of Nor
folk, Va.
Jim pleaded off, but someone else
started Silent Night, Holy Night. p"
and soon Jim and the whole Scot
regiment had joined in.
When tie last refrain subsidized,
from the opposite trenches arose
other voices - attuned in "Stille
Nacht." Then all night long Christ
mas carols rang from trench to
trench in strange tongues while cam
non and flares from other sectors lit
the sky.
At the customary Zero" hour, the
British soldiers saw gray-clad fig
ures making their way out of the
opposite trenches. "A few shots were
fired. Then it Was seen that the
Germans carried no arms. Scots
leaped from their trenches, likewise
unarmed, only to be ordered back.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1945-11-29
Reindeer Often Figure in
Northern Myth and Legend

Reindeer figure often in northern
myth and folklore. In one version of
the legend of Wayland. the smith,
,7.cayland and his two brothcrs leave
finland for the south on their rein
aeef-draWn sleighs. The mountain
elves try to stop them and Way
lands brothers lash their reindeer
to force them by the elves. Angry
because the three are deserving their
homes, but even more because OF
the blows given the patient deer, the
rsIveS curse the two brothers, sing
Ing:
because Slagfid struck his reindeer
Because Eigel struck his reindeer
Our, hatred shall follow you"
: Wayland they also curse for leav-
ing Finland, but because "he struck
net14his reindeer" the curse is mild
er. The two brothers die violenNg
and tragicaIly, but Wayland. after
many troubles, wins back the wife
he had lost and becomes the Smith
of the Gods"
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1945-11-29
Timely Hints
By RUTH CURRENT

Taking care of a mans suit
makes sense any time, but this
fall brings special reasons for
care of suits, new and old, say
clothing specialists. Suits are
still made of wartime fabrics that
need help from the wearers to
keep them looking we'll and to
give service. Here are a few re-
minders for suit care. Keep suits
brushed. Get dust out of folds
and corners. Work with the
grain of the cloth and use a good
clothes brush. A whisk broom
only hits high spots. A suit prop
erly brushed and hung needs less
pressing.
Hang coats squarely on broad
wooden hangers of the wishbone
shape made of mems suits. When
coat must hang on a chair, take
time to pull shoulders into shape
over chair corners. If a coat
must hang on hook, hank it by
the loop at the back Of the neck.
Best way to hang trousers is
upside down, using a hanger
with clips. If trousers must be
laid over the crossbar of wire
hanger, fasten cardboard or thick
paper over the crossbar, to pre-
vent a sharp crease. Check but
tons for tightness once in a while.
It is still not easy to match lost
buttons.
Trousers finished about one
half inch above the heels look and
wear best at the lower edge A
strip of cloth or tape seweG just
inside the edge takes the brunt
of wear off the trouser cuff.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1945-11-29
]. I. Halsey Rites
Held On Monday

Funeral service was held on
Monday at Oak Hill cemetery for
James T. Halsey, II, of Mouth of
Wilson, Va, who died on Satur-
day.
Service was conducted by the
Rev. J. R. Shumate, of Sugar
Grove, Va. Surviving are his
wife and two daughters, Mrs.
Ruth Caldwell, of Sparta; and
Mrs. Pearl Evans, of Charleston,
Washington. Several sisters and
brothers also survive.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1945-11-29

The following boys, who have
reported to the local draft board,
have been honorably discharged
from the army during the past
week:
West Jefferson: Allan Miller,
Walter E. Phillips, William c.
Mullis, Robert F. Mcneil, John
C. Jackson.
Jefferson: Carl T. Goodman.
Todd: Franklin P. Trivette.
Grassy Creek: Ray j. Blevins.
Glendale Springs: Wayne c.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1945-11-29
Cave of the Nativity
NowR eligiousGrott

The "stable" in which Christ
was born does not conform to the
modern conception Of the word.
In Biblical times, places OF
shelter were hewn in rocky
lodges: Judean travellers. fire.
quently housed in such caves.
welcomed joint tenancy with
beasts because of the extra
warmth provided by animals
bodies.
The birthplace Of Jesus was
such a cave. Now a grotto be-
meath Bethlehem's Church of the
Nativity, the entire surface has
been deliberately ornamented. Pill
grims to the shrine often wish,
nonetheless reverently, that its
original simplicity might have
been preserved in which eternal
stars
Looked down where He lay
The little Lord Jesus
Asleep in the hay"
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1945-11-29

Bare and Don Miller.
Hemlock: Arthur J. Osborne.
Sturgills: Theodore R. Ander-
son.
Trade, Tenn: Glenn Wilson.
Lansing: Powell Miller ano
Joseph E. Weaver.
Fleetwood: Dallas A. Williams
Those separated from the navy
West Jefferson: Emory N. Lew
is, Roy Poe.
Lansing: Marvin E. Claycomb.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1945-11-29
Influenced Customs

The Germans. perhaps more than
any other colonists. Influenced
Christmas customs in the United
States, which celebrates Christmas
more extensively than any other.
Our concept Of Santa Claus is wholly
from Germany. and the Christmas
tree id the home is another custom
that came over with German emf
grants In the last century.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1945-11-29

WAR BONDS will guard a.
gainst a postwar depression.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1945-11-29
COUNTY GRANGE UNITS
PLAN IMPROVEMENTS
Continued from Page y

Crumpler in the near future.
Masters of the four active units
in the county are as follows
Laurel, Herbert GRAPHICAL; JEFF
Persons, Fred Coward; Nathan's
Creek, w. L. Woodie, Lansing
Ed Eller.
Frank Jeeter, of the extension
division, of State College highly
complimented the Ashe Grange
units in a broadcast over the
radio last week.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1945-11-29

will be 10 per cent smaller than
prewar. Grocers will be asked to
adopt their own ration system for
butter and shortening. A public
buying spree is believed likely.
Anderson emphasized that the
lifting of ration controls will not
affect plans for shipping meat and
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1945-11-29
RATIONING OF FOOD
COMES TO AN END

Continued from Page y
ance of new civilian ration books.
Those items remain in very
short supply. During January,
February and March the supply
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1945-11-29
FAST RELIEF
From Too Frequent Urination,
Backache, Rundown Feeling
due to irritation of the bladder
caused by excess acidity in the urine

Famous doctors discovery acts on the
kidneys and helps keep You from getting
up nights!
Are you suffering unnecessary discom-
fort and distress from bsckache, burning
urine, frequent desire to pass water2
Getting up often at night? These symp-
toms may be caused by bladder irritation
due to excess acid in the urine. Then try
that famous doctors discovery - DR..
KILMER'S SWAMP ROOT.
Famous for many years, Swamp Root is
a carefully blended combination of herbs.
roots, balsam and other natural ingre-
dents. There's absolutely nothing harsh
or habit-forming in this scientific prepara-
ton. Just good ingredients that quickly
act on the kidneys to increase the flow of
urine and relieve bladder irritation and
its uncomfortable, distressing symptoms.
You'll say its marvellous effect is Won
derful!
Send for free, prepaid sample TODAY!
Like thousands of others you'll be glad
that you did. Send name and address to
Department F, Kilmer & Co, Inc. Box
1255, Stamford, Conn. Offer limited. Send
at once. All druggists sell Swamp Root.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1945-11-29
fats to liberated areas.

fats to liberated areas.
1--WE intend to carry out the
Presidents promise to ship the
maximum amount of food to help
relieve distress and prevent star
walton in devastated countries"
he said.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1945-11-29
In Dance Measure

Christmas carols were in dance
measure at first. The word carol
comes from ''corolla." ring. be-
cause the song was for a ring dance.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1945-11-29
Yule Log

From pagan Scandinavian worship
&C Thor comes the Yule log. lighted
with a brand from last years log
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1945-11-29
Old Custom

Christmas caroling was thriving
custom in England of the fourth cen
Jury.
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Evening star., 1945-04-07
Condemnation Suit
Approved for Library

The Commissioners have author
lied condemnation proceedings for
library site at Connecticut avenue
and Macomb street NV. and an
effort will be made by library off,
cials to have funds in the 1916 fiscal
budget for drawing plans and speci-
tications for branch library.
This week the Connecticut Avenue
Citizens Association announced it
had completed raising $50 900 in the
Cleveland Park memorial library
fund The District has a similar
sum for the site from the 1945
budget.
Miss Clara Herbert, librarian OF
the District Public Library, said that
funds for plans and specifications
were not contained in the 1916
budget as sent to Congress in Janu-
airy by the Budget Bureau. She said
that the library will either ask for
s8,450 for plans, or recommend that
some $1,000. unused IN the 1945
budget for plans of another branch
building. be transferred for the
Cleveland Park plans and the differ
ence between the two amounts
added.
Miss Herbert said that no request
had been made in the 1916 budget
when it was being prepared because
it was not known when the cam
paign for funds would be finished.
Evening star., 1945-04-07

Can this be the last roundup?
Could be. Buy one extra War Bond
today.
Evening star., 1945-04-07
War Department 10 Sell
Conduit Road BUILDINGS

The War Department will sell II
frame buildings, now considered sur
plus, at Camp Carderock, on old
Conduit road, about mile west of
Cabin John, Md, it was announced
today by H. L. Olston, project man
ager for the Middle Atlantic Divi-
sion of the Real Estate Branch, War
Department.
Sealed bids for purchase and re-
moval of the group will be received
up to II am, April 80, when they
will be opened at Mr.. Olston's Office,
at First and Douglas streets NV.
Bid forms, with terms and condi-
tions of sale and a brief description
of the structures may be obtained
on written request to Mr.. Olston at
his Office or by telephoning Hobart
50G0. Prospective purchasers may
inspect the buildings now and bids
may be submitted for one or any
number of the items to be sold. The
structures consist of three garage
buildings, "a by so feet each; two
barracks. two shops, two oil houses,
supply buildings and others.
Evening star., 1945-04-07
Two Are Licensed
As Really Brokers
And Il as Statesmen

Two licenses as real estate brokers
were issued by the District Real
Estate Commission during the past
week. They went to Harry Bonnet,
3211 Georgia avenue NV, and
Maurice M. Solomon of the South
ern Building.
Licenses as real estate statesmen
were issued to William H. Dlngle-
berry, 1113 Seventeenth street NV;
Margarete L. Alvig, 1400 L street
NV; Wilbert w. Blackman, 2939
Wilson boulevard Arlington; !;
Charles Raymond Cook, 1910 Ver-
mont avenue NV; Benjamin r.
Ditto, jr., 1113 Seventeenth street
NV: Charles H. Flagg, 1926 U
street NV: Ruth E. Hankins, 4l8
Third street NV; Eleanor S.
Maury, 1924 Fourteenth street NV;
Clara Ridgell, 1915 K street NV;
Sylvia F. Rogosa, 915 New York ave-
nue. NV; Theodore L. Sawyer, 1880
Ninth street NV, and George S.
White, Investment Building.
Licenses as business chance sales
men were issued to Margarete L..
Alvig, Mr.. Cook and William J..
Oriani, Woodward Building.
Applications for licenses as real
estate brokers were received from
John A. Rivers, 1896 Park road
NV; Ralph N. Sweeney, GAL Flor
ida avenue NV; William Cha
conas, 2740 Fourteenth street NV;
Hooper Martin Co., 260l Con-
necticut avenue NV; Samuel r.
Martin, 2601 Connecticut avenue
NV.
Applications for licenses as real
estate statesmen were received from
William H. Porter, 1l8l New Hamp-
shire avenue NV. Mr.. Ditto, Betsy
R. johnson, Oil Sixth street NV;
Freda r. Ostrow, 1910 Vermont ave-
nue. NV; Arthur G. Tillman, 1912
U street NV; Ernest w. Lewis, 941
New York avenue NV, Joseph
Jolles, 14i5 K street NV; Yvonne
E. Martin, 1417 L street NV.
Applications for licenses as buSi-
ness chance brokers were received
from William Chaconas, 2740
Fourteenth street NV: J. Wesley
Buchanan, 1882 K street NV; Leon
Spivak, 1910 Vermont avenue NV.
An application for a license as a
business chance salesman was re-
ceived from William Baskerville
Dortch, 1882 K street NV.
Evening star., 1945-04-07
7 Million in u. ). Jobs
Face Competition Of
Veterans, Legion Told

Civil Service Commissioner Ar
thur S. Flemming, yesterday made it
| clear that an estimated 100000
holders of war service appointments
in the Federal service will have to
compete with veterans for postwar
Government Jobs.
He assured a national employ
ment conference, sponsored by the
American Legion, that there will be
"a great many opportunities for vet
Grams in the Federal Government
for a good many years after the
war"
\ Mr.. Flemming revealed that two
thirds of the 100000 Government
job holders are war service appoint
| ments. While these temporary en-
1 ployes will be allowed to compete for
their jobs after the war, he pointed
out, veterans will be given q S or 10
point preference because of their
war service.
Pledges Aid.
He pledged that the Civil Service
Commission will do all it can to see
that the spirit as well as the letter
of the Veterans Preference Act is
carried out.
Preference for veterans also was
emphasized at the dinner winding
up the two-day employment confer
ence when Edward N. Scheiberling,
National Legion commander, de-
clared that the obligation we owe
to fighting men" supersedes any
claim = to wartime advantages by
stay-at -homes.
/ Mr.. Scheiberling warned that any
attempt on the part of any segment
of the population to maintain war
! time advantages because of the alb
Sence of men and women in the
service will create one of the most
tremendous employment problems
! the Nation has ever faced.
Il am confident he added. that
public opinion will be on the side of
those who are now on the global
fighting fronts
To Push Discharges.
While, he said, it was true that
the fullest possible employment is
the goal 1T is equally true that no
plans, no goals, no single thing must
be permitted to overShadoW the OBJ
legation we owe to fighting men"
Earlier, 1t. Col Edwin F.. Banner,
outlining the War DEPARTMENT.
plans for the readjuStment of SOL
diers becoming civilians, told the
conference that the Army definitely
plans to release ''aS soon as we can,
the maximum number of those who
deserve a release" He promised
that no man will be held in the
Army after We day unless he is
needed to defeat Japan.
Herman L. Hettinger of the
Crowell-Co Publishing Co. re-
ported that a survey he had made
of communities with more than
10000 population showed that 26 per
cent reported community programs
for veterans in operation; II per
cent had completed their plans; 10
per cent had plans in the formative
stage and 43 per cent either did not
have any plans or failed to turn in
a report.
A feature of the dinner meeting
was the presentation of the Office of
Civilian Defense citation of merit to
the Legion for the work of its mem
berS in the civilian defense program
1t. Gen. William N. Haskell, retired,
head of the OCD, made the presen-
tatiOn