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Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1947-01-09
Helping Hand

Since Uncle Sam has dealt gen.
erously with Italy, it is looking con-
fidently for more assistance from
the U. S. Thus far, the u. S. has
agreed to compensate Italy for
supporting American invasion troops
and furnishing war supplies, and
has extended credits for purchase
of overseas surplus. In addition,
Italy has profited from U. S. contri-
buttons to UNRRA and the interna-
tional bank.
Despite the difficulties present
ed by shortages of both foodstuffs
and industrial materials, both the
left and right wings have made
political capital of unrest. Latest ex-
ample was the food riots engineered
by Communists in southern Italy.
AS a result of the political pickering,
there has been resurgence of Fas-
cist sentiment, with Mussolini's for
mer followers growing asingly
holder.
Leftists also have backed the at
tacks on pope and church, with the
intention of weakening respect for
the Catholic doctrine of authority,
family and property. However, the
rightist dominated government has
been quick to fight abusive criti-
cism Of the clergy. An editor
charged with publishing phorno-
graphic cartoons of friar and un-
clad woman was sentenced to two
years in jail.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1947-01-09
u. S. HEALTH:
Shows Improvement

After getting off to a bad start
in the early months of the year, the
health record among life insurance
policyholders in the United States
was excellent for the year 1916 as
a whole, according to the Institute
of Life Insurance.
At the start of the year, there was
a rise in the death rate among
policyholders, but by the second
quarter this trend was reversed and
a marked improvement was shown.
the institute said.
For the entire year, it appears
that the overall civilian death rate
will be at about the same level as
in 1915.
In the year just closed, the death
rates for most causes Of death
have shown Improvement, several
reaching new low points, but the
two major causes Of death each
showed an increase. But for these
two. heart disease and cancer,
which accounted for nearly half of
all civilian policyholder deaths, the
death rate from all causes COM
bined would have been materially
lower than in 1945.
Heart disease remains the No.
killer. still more firmly entrenched
as the leading cause of death with
this years increase. Cancer also
widened the margin between it and
the third cause Of death,
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1947-01-09
BUSINESS:
Look ahead

Despite the nations basically
sound economy and the untitled
wants for consumer goods, business
and industry enter 1947 facing an
uncertain and confused pattern with
growing consumer resistance to
high prices. according to the Ma
tional Conference Of Business Pa
per Editors.
Failure to halt the wage-price
spiral; prolonged strikes for higher
pay which throttle production in
key industries, and failure to main
tain high rate of man-hour pro-
duction may result in serious bust
ness recession before the end of the
year, the editors say.
The readjustment forecast for
1947 will be most noticeable in con-
sumner goods, except heavy durables
and less noticeable in industrial raw
materials and supplies. These fields,
1t Is predicted, will be bolstered by
requirements Of the home building
and construction industry, which is
not likely to be affected unless
there is a sharp rise in labor and
material costs.
A business recession probably will
start early in the third quarter of
l947, when the production Of con-
sumner durable goods exceeds the
demand for them, the editors
averred. It will last until prices
have come down to a reasonable
enough level so that consumers have
incentive to purchase again.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1947-01-09
ITALY:
Postwar Troubles

Despite substantial assistance
from the U. S., Italy has been tread
ing rocky road to postwar re-
covery.
Italy's troubles are not all econom-
lc, although shortages of foodstuffs
and widespread unemployment re-
sulting from industrial stagnation
have contributed to the political tur-
MOL. The left and the right are pull
ing against themselves for political
advantage and rising wave of anti
clerical propaganda threatens the
traditional spiritual unity of the peo-
pie.
On the economic front, Italy is
short of wheat, and spaghetti and
macaroni rations have been cut in
half. Pig iron production is down to
28 per cent of the prewar level; tex
tile fabrics, Sc per cent; chemicals,
66 per cent; mechanical goods, rs
per cent; cotton thread, 88 per cent.
Imports are almost three times ex-
ports.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1947-01-09
FOREIGN AFFAIRS:
Red Tape

The sullen Russians continued to
keep overseas relations with u. S.
military personnel on strictly a for
NAL basis as Illustrated in their or
der to an American naval vessel to
clear out of Dairen, Manchuria.
within the prescribed 48 hours.
The LC-3 1890 entered Dairen as
a diplomatic courier ship to bear
supplies and mail to the U S. con
sui. Legally, the vessel was per-
mitted to remain only 48 hours, and
the Russ ordered the Americans to
leave or accept the consequences
when it appeared they might be de-
layed over efforts to obtain landing
clearance for Standard Vacuum
Oil company employee, a neWspa-
per correspondent and a magazine
photographer.
Russian authorities in control of
Dailen had given the U. S. consul
the run-around in his attempts to
sec,.a permission for the, three
to land. However. their action
stemlned from q fear to grant the
clearance without prior approval
from their masters in Moscow rath-
er than personal feeling.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1947-01-09
INDO-CHINA:
Imperial Headache

France was the latest European
power to suffer an imperial head
ache, with Indo-Chinese natives bat
ting French forces for extension of
self-government.
Under a compromise effected last
March, France granted self-rule to
several provinces but retained con-
troll over the rest of the country as
lever for continued dominance.
Awaiting themselves of well-oiled
machine developed under Japanese
auspices during the wartime occu-
patton. the native leaders Of the Wet
Nam independence party) have
pressed for an extension of their
se1f-rule.
Not yet able to grant all of French
Indo-China independence and be as
sured Of the protection of it's COM
mercial interests in the rich Far
Eastern country. France has been
forced to use troops to retain grip
in the absence of an agreeable COM
promise. With French Communists
opposing use of force to suppress
the natives, however, the govern
ment has encountered difficulty in
checking the uprisings.
Despite the. modest number Of
troops and armaments on hand, how
ever, French authorities strove to
restore order in the rebellious land,
maintaining control over the prin-
cipal cities.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1947-01-09
RAW WATERFALL:
u. s. Reserves

Huge demands during two world
wars have drawn heavily upon
United States reserves of metals
and minerals although the country
still has abundant resources of the
most essential, according to the
New York Trust company.
Great as are it's resources, United
States reserves of some important
metals and minerals have been de-
pleted by unprecedentedly high pro-
duction during the last five years.
Most of the minerals in deficient
supply in the United States, except
graphite and titanium ore, are
available, at least to some extent,
from other sources on the Aneri-
can continent or its neighboring is
lands, although the American con-
tinent is not the cheapest source of
United States supply for certain
metals and minerals, such as tin,
large quantities of which are i'm
ported from the Far East.
Imports of metals and minerals
gave essential aid to United States
military strength during World War
II. The United States had to i'm
port IS different metals and miner
ais from So countries, and the
value Of these wartime imports ex-
ceeded two billion dollars. Yet this
country's exports of mineral prod
ucts during the war, as in all other
years since the early 1900s. far ex-
cseded imports,
Released BY WsatsTa Newspaper uAslag,
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1947-01-09
TARIFF:
Seek Protection

Historically for free trade, the
deep south reversed its position in
petitioning President Truman and
Federal Trade commission for a
strong protective tariff for Ameri.
can agriculture.
Signed in behalf of the elect
ed commissioners of agriculture
OF Alabama, Arkansas, Florida,
Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana,
Mississippi, South Carolina,
North Carolina, Texas, Tennes-
see and Virginia, the petition
reached Mr.. Truman as the gov
eminent prepared for renegoti-
alton of existing rates in recip-
rocal trade treaties drawn
under the act of 1894 and SUBJ
sequent extensions.
Declaring that industrially unde.
veloped nations could pay for
American manufa ctured goods
only with agricultural products, the
commissioners warned against sub.
Jecting U. S. farmers to a flood OF
foreign commodities and reducing
their living standards to a subsist.
ence level. Calling for trade pro.
gram fitted into the American
economy, the commissioners advo.
Gated the exchange of such export.
able products as wheat, lard and
cotton for rubber, coffee, tea and
bananas.
Wisely, the commissioners pc
tition was national rather than
sectional in its nature. Although
processing concern for the future
of cotton in competition with for
eign rayon, nylon and other ar
tificial fibers made i'm reconvert-
ed armament plants, the COM
missioners also warned that a
further lowering of tariff rates
would adversely affect cattle,
oleomargarine, butter, cheese,
fish, eggs, grains, potatoes, pea
nuts and vegetables.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1947-01-09

At townsville, Pa, naval air
technicians develop deadly guild
ed missiles of future warfare.
Photo shows scientists testing
ship-to-shore weapon designed for
pin-point bombing at 100 miles.
Travelling hundreds of miles an
hour, missiles are directed to tar
get through television, radar, ra-
di0 or devices sensitive to sound,
heat and magnetism.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1947-01-09

remain in office, he
proposed to retain
his post until the
n e w pro- Arnall
lieutena mt COVER
nor is sworn in,
when he will resign
in his favor.
Anxious to obtain
the CUB e IN a torial
seat, however, "Old
Gene 50 followers
hoped to muster
sufficient strength
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1947-01-09

strength when the
general a sse mbly
cOnveneS was to de-
termine Georgia's
next governor.
"Old Gene" HIM
self was scheduled
to take Office Janu-
airy IA before his
de a tn interviewed,
creating a situation
unpara lleled in
Georgia's history.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1947-01-09

to declare the post vacant at the
election canvass when the assem-
bly, convened, then name his son,
Herman. governor. Although only
''Old Genes" name was on the bal
lot at the last election, his son re-
ceived a number of write-in votes
to provide for just such contin-
gency az occurred,
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1947-01-09

Now, we have seen every
thing i'm ladies' hats - or have
we? Latest creation by Edward
Stevenson of Hollywood, Calf,
where one can expect almost
anything, utilities Christmas
wrappings, etc., which other
wise might go into the waste
basket. This chic number is
fashioned from cellophane and
metal foil paper, cellophane
straws, holly, bells, pine cones
and tabs.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1947-01-09

new or old state constitutions pro-
vided for such contingency, adj
herents of Gov. Ellis Arnall and
"Old Gene" jockeyed for the posi-
ton.
While Governor Arnall disavowed
any intention of taking advantage
of the uncertain legal situation to
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1947-01-09
WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS
Claims for Back Travel Pay Pass One Half Billion
Farm Chiefs Petition for Strong Protective Taft

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?, 1947-01-09

GEORGIA:
Cubernatorial Mia-Up
Ability of the late Gene Tai
madge's following to muster full
The Nome nugget., 1947-09-05
New Security Pact Pattern For United Nations To Follow

WASHINGTON, (P)-Secretary of State Marshall today held forth the new Inter-American security pact as the outstanding postwar example of how nations can join together to promote world. peace.
 Marshall who will present the treaty to the United Nations as sembly two weeks hence, and Senator Vandenberg R.-MichO hailed it in a radio broadcast last night as a pattern for the U. N. to follow in it's quest for world wide security.
 Throughout the talks of both men ran an implied criticism of Russia and the Soviet attitude toward international cooperation.
 Marshall declared that the re- suits of the conference at Petrop- oils, Brazil, in which the treaty was drafted and signed demon SIIdlcu, 1 Illlllh OCJ OllI IOuOI, IIlo where nations are sincerely desir- ous of promoting the peace and well-being of the world it can be done"
 He added that ''it can be done without frustrating delays and without much of the confusing and disturbing propaganda that has at tended our efforts of the past two years"
 The secretary, who earlier this year spent eight futile weeks in Moscow trying to negotiate agree ments on the future of Germany with Russia, Britain and France, returned Wednesday from the Pe- tropolis meeting where the 19 American governments present drew up the new security treaty in three weeks.
The Nome nugget., 1947-09-05
U. $. Government Puts Some Tracer Atoms On Sale
By Alton L. Blakeslee) C(P) Science Reporter


 ST. LOUIS, CP) - The United States yesterday started a new program of sharing some tracer atoms from atomic ovens with for eign countrieS-a move called by scientists as promising quicker conquests over cancer and other diseases.
 There were also immediate sug- geStiOnS that the action might serve as a trail-blazer to smooth achievement of international con tro@ over the atom bomb and atom ic energy.
 President Truman announced the decision in a message last night to scientists of A nations at the fourth international cancer re- search congress. He asserted it would "help reduce loss of life and human suffering from diseases throughout the world"
 None of the 20 radioactive ele- mentSg offered for sale to foreign countries can be applied to devel- oping atomic energy for military or industrial uses, the atomic en- ergy commission said. Sales will not include either plutonium or uranium, or give the slightest clues to any atom bomb secrets. Sup plies at the outset will be limited.
 Foreign users will be required to report for the benefit of every one their findings on the tracer re- searches, to make progress re- ports semi-annually to the AEC, and to open their laboratories to qualified visiting scientists of any nationality. Foreign governments must see to it that the tracers are used ony for the requested pur- poses.
 pr. C. P. Rhoads, director of
 Continued on Page Six
The Nome nugget., 1947-09-05
British Trades
 Union Congress Comments Bevin

SOUTHPORT, Eng. (P) - The British trades union congress adopted a resolution yesterday commenting the services of for eign secretary Ernest Bevin, but rejecte overwhelmingly an amendment asking the govern ment to establish mutually bene- ficial trade relations with Russia and "to resist pressure of dollar diplomacy"
 The tribute to Bevin, expressed by show of hands, was regarded as especially significant in view of recent charges by some members of the Labor Party that he was swinging his policy too sharply to the right
 It reflected, too, the generally favorable reception given in this country to his speech Friday call ing for an Empire customs union and a redistribution of American gold reserves.
 The resolution urged the foreign secretary to continue his efforts
The Nome nugget., 1947-09-05
Truman Pledges U. $. Will Back United Nations

RIO DE JANEIRO, (P)-Presi- dent Truman today pledged anew the full backing of the United States to the United Nations and expressed confidence the problems of peace can be solved with mu- tual good will and fOrbearance.'
 Speaking before a join session of the Brazilian Congress in Tira- dentes palace, MT. Truman also hailed as splendid" the achieve ment of the recent InterAmerican conference in reaching agreement on defense of the western hemi- sphere.
 Brazil and the United States, he said, must continue to cooperate with other countries of the hemi- sphere "in the development of a strong and concerted force for the good of mankind"
 MT. Truman noted that the two nations have been spared the wanton destruction and disloca- ton" of war. He said he is certain they will be faithful to the task of opening the lives and liberty of so many millions of disillu- stoned and discouraged people"
 The address was MT. Truman's second on Brazilian soil this week In his first, he told the Inter- American conference Tuesday that the United States is determined to remain strong and fulfill its obii- gationS to the U. N. He also ex- pressed belief then that postwar disputes can be settled without armed conflict.
 Continuing on that theme in his address to the Brazilian Congress, MT. Truman termed the defense agreement as an illustration to the world that right thinking men can submerge their individual pre- judices" for the benefit of the world.
The Nome nugget., 1947-09-05
Veterans Board Is Defendant In Suit

Territorial Attorney Ralph J. Rivers filed a suit last Saturday in U. S. District Court in Juneau against the Alaska World War II Veterans Board asking for writ of mandamus. The complaint was signed by Territorial Treasurer Oscar Olson and named as defend ants Norman Haley, executive of- ficer of the board and the board members, Robert E. Ellis, John s. Hellenthal, John M. Cross, L. Elm bert Demmert and Paul Solka, Jr.
 The suit, which was announced Saturday by the Territorial Board of Administration, asks that the Veterans Board return S350,000 to the Territorial Treasury, which sum was appropriated to the Vet erans by the legislature in order to begin operations. The money was to be repaid within a specified pe- riod or when the amount of money collected through the veterans tax reaches a certain amount.
 Haley said that he would refrain from comment on the action until he had conferred with members of the veterans board and with the boards attorney, H. L. Faulkner. The veterans board, previously, had rejected a plea from the board of administration voluntarily to surrender the money.
The Nome nugget., 1947-09-05
Coal Strike
 Spreading In Great Britain

LONDON, (P) - Some 60,000 Yorkshire coal miners summed the pits today, bringing the total of struck collieries to 54 as union officials voiced fears that the three-week- walkout m g h t spread to the vital Kent coal fields in southeast England.
 Arthur Homer, secretary gen. eral of the national union of mine workers, hurriedly left a trades union conference at Southport last night and hastened to London for an emergency conference with fuel minister Emanuel Shinwell and national coal board officials seeking to end the walkout.
 Yorkshire district leaders quit the Southport conference to visit the strike scene. The national union has disapproved the strike.
The Nome nugget., 1947-09-05
SANTA FE. N. M. (Pl !.

SANTA FEE, N. M. (P) - The New Mexico state legislature has taken the stand that when "ten- derfoot" spots a deer, bear, or other big game he is not responsi- ble for his actions-least of all for where he shoots.
 The Sunshine State" solons took this stand in killing a mea- sure which would have made hum ters liable for damages resulting from stray shots.
 Vearle Payne, of Lordsburg, N. M., speaker of the House; sum- med up the majority opinion when he said:
 'No legislature can ever pass an act to prevent anyone from get ting buck fever"
The Nome nugget., 1947-09-05
NEWS TN BRIEF

CARLSBAD, N. M., P)--Dud- ley Ussery, foreman of the SIX ranch just across the Texas line from Carlsbad, went shopping for a powerful deodorant today.
 Ussery smelled skunk at the ranchhouse, and went searching outside and underneath the dwell ing. As the scent grew stronger he moved inside. Finally he peered into a clothes closet.
 That was when he found the skunk. And that was when the skunk found Ussery.
The Nome nugget., 1947-09-05
China Orders Sweeping "Thrift'' Regulations

RANKING, (Ao) - The govern ment today promulgated sweeping thrift regulations which will af- feet nearly every strata of life, with controls ranging from opera ton of automobiles to the size of newspapers and banquets.
 s Se retary-general Kan Mai Kuang of the executive Yuan said the regulations, effective tomor- row, have a two-fold purpose: to economize on available domestic materials and to save dwindling foreign exchange.
 The new "austerity' program, Kan said, could be regarded as a revival of Madame Chiang Kali Shek's "new life movement" It is so broad that it includes social castigation for persons who, in Kan's words "arrive late at social functions, leave early, or stay away without prior notification to the host"
 Among the more important pro- visions: reductions in the number of government servants, nation wide gasoline rationing, eventual withdrawal of drivers licenses to all except essential operators, sharp restrictions on the sizes of newspapers and periodicals.
The Nome nugget., 1947-09-05

BROOKLINE, Mass. (P)-Miss Margaret Ford of Brookline, Bos- ton Herald feature writer, and John Kieran, author and "Infor- nation Please" expert, were mar ried today in St. Aidan's Catholic church.
 The ceremony was performed by the brides brother, the Rev, John C. Ford, S.J.
 Miss Anne Ford, the brides sis ter, and John Kieran, Jr., a liar yard law school student, were the only attendants.
 Mrs. Kieran is the daughter of Mrs. Joanna Cuthbert Ford and the late Michael J. Ford.
 The couple will live in New York. Kieran's first wife died five years ago.
The Nome nugget., 1947-09-05
Fort Knox Gold Proposal "Doesn't Make Sense"

LONDON, (P) - An authorita- tive American source said yester- day that foreign secretary Ernest Bevin's proposal for redistribution of the Fort Knox gold was, in the British view, to be an integral part of the Marshall plan for aiding European economic recovery.
 The informant said Bevin had made the suggestion informally in an exchange with U. s. ambassa- dor Lewis w. Douglas before an nouncing it publicly Wednesday at the trade union congress in South port.
 In the course of a 70-minute talk yesterday with American Congressmen who are inveStigat- ing economic conditions in Britain and western Europe, the foreign secretary gave several more de- tails of his proposal, this source added.
 Bevin'S elucidation of his pro- posal for redistributing U. s. gold stocks came in answer to a ques- ton from one of the Congressmen and the informant said the foreign secretary made these points:
 His proposal had the backing of the British government.
 He believed it was unhealthy and unsound economics, out of harmony with the principles of multilateral trade which the United States herself was urging, for one country to hold most of the worlds gold stocks and not use them.
 There would be no lasting set clement of Europe's economic diff faculties if continental recovery was to depend on never-ending U. s. loans.
 Gold could become the basis of world currency systems and every nation should have access to it.
 The informant said Bevin's elucidation of his proposal was re- ceived somewhat skeptically" by the U. s. Congressman. A member of the delegation said "It just does not make sense"