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Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1948-01-15

history would not answer.
Domestic political significance Of
Wallace's emergence as third
party candidate may be summed up
briefly: Republicans like it, Demo
Gratis don't.
II Wallace can get on the bal
lots in one or more Of the pivotal
states - New York, Ohio, Califor-
mia. Pennsylvania or Illinois - he
may be able to split off enough Of
the Democratic vote to swing the
election to the Republican nominee.
and If he makes his inherent de-
votion to Rooseveltian ideals stick,
he may be able to corral consid-
cradle section Of those on the left
side.
Always the eminent liberal. Wal
lace is angling for all or portion
of the left-wing Democratic vote.
One thing was certain. Wallace
would have the hearty, although
somewhat onerous, support Of the
Communists. no matter how much
he might avow his own anti Com
munist principles. He would have to
60 through the campaign with the
Reds and fellow-travelers hanging
to his coat-tails.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1948-01-15
FIRE LOSS:
Greatest

With the great toll of the Texas
City explosion heading the list. fires
and related disasters cost the Unit
ed States almost 700 million dollars
in 1947, the national board of fire
underwriters said in its year-end
report.
1t was the highest damage loss in
history of the nation, and the great
est annual peacetime loss for any
country in the world.
By way of vivid comparison, the
board pointed out that two years of
the German air war against Great
Britain cost only an estimated 400
million dollars in property damage.
Thirty-three major CONGREGATIONS,
including the Texas City disaster
and the Maine forest fires, involved
damages of more than 100 million
dollars. This also was the largest
number of major fires in any one
year, each representing losses Of
million dollars or more.
There were % such major fires in
1916, 26 in 1945 and Is in 1914.
Most costly by far of the years
holocausts was the ammonium ME
trate explosion at Texas City on
April 16. More than 500 persons
were killed, 5000 injured and prop
erty damage ran above 80 million
dollars.
Next in Importance from the
standpoint of material destruction
were the Maine forest fires, where
property loss at Bar Harbor alone
was estimated at million dollars.
Third biggest disaster was the ex-
plosion of an oil tanker in Los An
geles harbor last June.
The number of lesser fires in 1947
exceeded $4,000.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1948-01-15

England is full of suspense but
IL isn't The kind tbst keeps nsSn's
trousers Wb.
British braces (s@sbendsrs), made
Nnder 8 government order limit
ing THE elastic to three inches at
THE back, bsVe been the cause of q
number of London breeebes falling
dosvn end finally drove Historian
Artb1y Bryant to reporting bis
plight in o letter TO the London
Times.
In tbs pest yesr, be ssid, be
bought four pairs of braces. "AfteS
each OCCASION" lamented Bryant,
"tbe braces bsVe broken iyvetvieO-
sbIy sVitbin three months"
The Times, in helpful mood,
debIoyed the situation in s,s ed;tO-
rial:
''Tbe FoNr Freedoms are boil
Iov moekery if or braces ere go.
ing to be bursting all THE time. No
nation cen be expected to bold ab
its bead il it also is required to
bold Sb its trousers"
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1948-01-15
REPUBLIC:
Michael Quits

Cornmunist-controued eastern Eu.
rope cast off its last tie with hap
pier past when King Michael Of
Romania made public his abdica-
ton from the throne.
His announcement had not yet
fully registered on Romania's Devil
dered populace when the Com
munist government promptly pro-
claimed the nation a popular
democratic republic"
Thus, with the 26-year-old mon
arch's abdication, ended a dynasty
established In 1866, the last mon
archy in the Soviet sphere Of influ-
ence in eastern Europe and the last
throne. held by the House Of Hohen-
zollern.
Michael, as some romanticists
would have had it. might have re-
nounced his throne purely for the
love Of Princess Anne Of Bourbon
Parma and Denmark, but the Com
manist establishment Of "repub-
lie" and immediate reorganization
Of the government came too swift
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1948-01-15
FOR PEACE
Wallace Comes In

Henry Wallace was deluding no
one, not even himself, about his
chances Of being elected President
Of the United States in 1948 on a
third party ticket when, with zeal
Gus idealism, he announced that he
would be an independent candidate.
His entry into the contest, as he
announced on a nationwide broad
cast from Chicago, was based upon
his revulsion against 1.-The bi-parti-
san reactionary war policy which is
dividing the world into two armed
camps"
Both Republicans and Democrats,
ne indicated, can be filed in the
same political pigeon-hole because
both stand for the. bipartisan poll
cies which are leading the nation
to war and depression.
''That menace can be met and
overcome only by new political
alignment in America which re-
quires a new political party"
averred the former vice president.
Whether or not it could be met
by third party "a peace party"
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1948-01-15
NO BOUQUETS:
For Stain ct al

Josef Stain and the American
meat industry attained dubious dis
tinction by being named by the
Crackpot club of Grand Rapids,
Mich, as ''those who did the least
for America" in 1947.
The club honored the meat indus
try for its lone or two pork chops
for a buck" and Stain for the pos
sibiity that he may unloose "a
guided missile at Humans old
homestead instead Of doing it YER
bally."
It was the first time in the nine
year history Of the Crackpots that
duplicate awards were given. John
l.. Lewis. "whose chin and miners
are frequently out" was handed the
prize in 1943-44-45.
Crockery pots also were awarded
to Maj. Gen. Bennett Meyers for
taking it like a lot of brass hats"
plus a cluster for blaming it on
dame," and to Humphrey Bogart
for 1.-The worst performance of the
year, when he crashed the Holly
wood Communist hearings in Wash
ington.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1948-01-15
|DOWNTURN:
Prices

AS two nationwide retail firms an
nounced major price reductions on
a wide range of their goods Ameri-
can consumers stopped to wonder
whether this might mark a definite
break in the high price-line or would
simply turn out to be another Incl
dent like the Newburyport expert
ment last year.
General Electric company dis
closed an average price cut of S
per cent, effective January /, on an
extensive selection of home appli-
ances. The company estimated
consumers would save so million
dollars this year as result.
Sears Roebuck, large retail mail
order house, put into the mails a
regular mid-winter sales book list
ing price reductions up to 20 and
33h per cent on some merchandise.
The actions followed closely after
President Truman signed the anti
imitation bill which would combat
high prices by seeking voluntary
agreements among business and in
dustry to lower costs.
Charles E. Wilson, General Elec-
trio president, declared that the re-
auctions were not made to stirnu-
late business. 1--WE could sell in
many lines twice what we can pro-
duce," he said.
He added his voice to the theory
upon which the Republican con-
gress based its recent anti-infation
act: That industry generally must
take the initiative In reversing the
inflationary trend.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1948-01-15

~, too efficiently to lend much Gre
dence to that theory.
AS the king himself pointed out
in his abdication proclamation. he
was resigning the throne because a
monarchy no longer conceded with
the great political, economic and
social changes in Romania.
Nor was it logical for the Com
munists, grim advocates Of their
international dictatorship Of the
proletariat," to be countenancing
and cooperating with a hereditary
monarchy. And Michael had acted
as a sort of brake on some Com
munist actions in Romania.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1948-01-15
INEVITABLE:
Our Fault
It had to come.

1t had to come.
Even while Americans were try
ing to get the bad taste Of the Lon
don conference out Of their mouths.
Soviet Foreign Minister v. M. Molo-
TOW was savoring the same flavor
by publicly blaming the failure of
the talks on the United States. 49,
In a statement broadcast by the
Moscow radio Molotov asserted
that the American delegation sum
dertook to disrupt the entire work
Of the London conference" be-
cause ''for some reason" the
United States wanted to delay set
tlement of Germany's future.
However, said he expansively,
the Big Four talks were not alto
gether fruitless, mainly because of
''the efforts Of the Soviet delega-
ton" The exact nature Of those eff
forts he did not pause to explain.
Repeating charges which he had
made in London, Molotov said that
the western powers, led by the U. S..
were pursuing policy "aimed at
Germany's disintegration rather
than unity, a policy =. which has
already resulted in the actual split
ting of Germany"
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1948-01-15
LIFE EXPECTANCY: /
Mans Span Lengthened

You're never too old to get a
break.
Middle-aged and elderly persons
at last have begun to share in the
progress of medical science which,
until recently, conferred most of its
benefits on children and young peo-
pie, according to an analysis Of old
and new mortality tables by North
western National Life Insurance
company.
Although a 40-year-old mans re-
manning span of life expectancy has
heightened only four years since
1889, medical improvements in the
next quarter century are expected
to secure for him much more time
on earth.
In 1889 it was estimated that a
man 40 years old would live 26 years
longer, while today he has 20 or 30
years ahead of him.
Meanwhile, the life expectancy of
the average male child at birth has
increased from only % years in
American revolutionary times to
over 81 years today.
Progress in sanitary, nutritional
and medical science which has cut
down or nearly wiped out many in
fectious diseases of childhood is
mainly responsible for this phenom-
email extension of the average life
span, the insurance study pointed
out. Improvement in child mortality
has leveled off, however, and sci
ence is turning it's attention to bene.
fitting older persons.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1948-01-15
Many a Penny

What with odd-cent prices, sales
taxes and peanut machines, the
humble penny is more in demand
than ever, but the U. S. mint at
Philadelphia has issued the reassur-
ing statement that there are enough
coppers to fill all needs.
AS a matter of fact. there are
more than the nation can handle.
About 100000 are being minted daily
and there are 81, 1876. 900 in the vaults
ready for use.
Released by WNU Features.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1948-01-15

- founded on the
assumption t h a t
the u. S. must
a d opt a softer,
more cooperative
attitude toward
Russia and at the
same time reject
universal military
training and pre-
paredness In gen.
eral was a question
that probably even
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1948-01-15
EMMANUEL:
King Is Dead

1t might be said of Victor En-
manuel III, former king of Italy,
that his life ended on the day he
summoned Benito Mussolini to
power after the melodramatic
march of the little dictator's black
shirts on Rome.
For it was then that the king re-
fused Marshal Pietro Badoglio few
regiments of troops to smash the
not too dangerous uprising.
II have other plans" the king
was reported to have said. "And be-
sides, I want no bloodshed."
With those words he established
himself as one of the chief witnesses
to the greatest period of bloodshed
in civilized history. For 20 years he
was a yes-man to Mussolini, acqui-
escing in every act II Duce pro.
posed.
He watched the rape of Ethiopia
and then stood by while the Fascists
helped enslave Europe. And when
the wheel came to full turn and
Italy collapsed in defeat he had to
stand by and watch the Germans
make a battle-ground of his native
land.
Broken and powerless, rejected
by his people, he abdicated in 1916
the throne he had held since 1900
and went to Egypt.
In Alexandria, as the year was
drawing to close, Victor Emman-
uel III, ex-king of Italy, died in
exile of pneumonia.
The magnificently tragic epitaph
which Shakespeare made Macbeth
say for himself might not be in
appropriate:
81 dare do all that may become a
man. Who dares do more is none."
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1948-01-15

Brig. Gen. Wallace lei. Graham,
personal physician to President
Truman, was top man on a list of
100 federal, state and local gov
eminent employees identified as
wheat traders by Clinton Ander-
SON, secretary Of agriculture.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1948-01-15
WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS
WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS
Wallace Enters Presidential Race; Michael Quits as
King Of Romania; Farm Product Prices Hit New High

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?, 1948-01-15
ARCTIC:
Jet Planes

Arctic areas took their place more
firmly as a region of vast military
Importance in this era Of power
politics with establishment of full
u. S. jet fighter squadron in Alaska.
The Oath Chat in Ring) squadron
of P-80B fighters arrived at Laid
field, near Fairbanks, ''for the first
mass tactical operation" of the high
speed warplanes in the Arctic out
post.
Assignment of the Gath for a six
month training period in Alaska ap-
parently is in line with the air force
program of combining training with
garrisoning of the strategic northern
defense. area.
For the past year, B-29 units as
well as fighter squadrons have been
given training assignments in Alas
ka to familiarize air and ground
crews with the special problems.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1948-01-15

On his traditional birthday inter-
view in Washington. D. c., Gen.
Peyton C. March, SO, World War I
chief of staff, observed that the
U. S. is approaching the break
ing point" with Russia and has
"got to have'' universal military
training at once.
, 1948-10-29
BeoYside Discussion
by Massa Joe

Sic Carrie: Yuh heer emmy ting
moar bout dab hart defunk steer
ing weel settup?
Tantu Bee: Doan tark bout dem
tarl. sub much all intelligent pee
pull mixin up wild lang time kind
agarden wey Deb yah fran Noah
binnah shub nail lima de Ark.
Arse tub da wan wey gat de
whoal ah de yuletide seeson evun
dekaratin ee spektacles kase. Ee
tub like fun redicule peepul, and
tn boot, e fur fran purfik.
Sic Carrie: Buh yuh shudda
heer i'm de AIDA mite ovah de new
radiyo stashan in de markit. Rite
on de BEEN in narnsenec.
Tantu Bee: Oh yeah, ah wud
like tn pix up sum ali dem narn-
Sence wey ee duz tark. Wat is de
name aV de StaShan?
Sis CARTE: Jiss tun tn 900 pan
de diyal. Das Stashan I-G-N-A-R-
A-N-C-E. Yuh carnt mis- it.
Tantu Bee: Oh, yuh meen dab
stashan wey only duz tark bout
de avis edditta an Garrygin?
Sic Carrie: Das de beet! How
yuh guess it sub qwik?
Tantu Bee: Wei, gel, fran how
e bin gwine arm de AIDA mite yuh
wud tink Brady had change e
mine fran harlin out.
, 1948-10-29
SHIPPING SCHEDULE

The S. S. "ALCOA RANG
Err" is scheduled to sail from
Mobile, October 2Srd, New
Orleans, October 18th, and
Tampa, November End, and is
due at Frederiksted on or
about November 18th, accept
ing freight for St. Kits, Anti
qua, Barbados, Grenada, Trim
idad, Georgetown, British
Guiana.
Alcoa Steamship Co. Inc.
Robt L. Merwin g. Co, Inc.
, 1948-10-29
HIGHLY UN-AMER1CAN BUSINESS"


ON AUGUST 81, when Henry Wallace, third party
candidate for the Presidency, spoke in Charlotte, North Caro-
lima, and was pelted with tomatoes and eggs, President
Truman in Washington, termed it highly nn-Annerican bust
ness" And other leaders in the nation Joined in deploring
such action as unfair and unwarranted. Americans love a
tight, and love to know that a battle has been hard fought
and the victory goriously won. There is no fun otherwise
And local politicians may well take a cue from such state
ments as the Presidents.
HERE. WHERE we engage in very petty politics for
a few seats in a Legislature which pays nothing, and which
should be sought only for the honor Of it, we often 90 to ex-
temes, and get SO very personal that friendships are broken
and much harm done. That is one of the reasons why some
men never run for public office, bue prefer to make their
contributions as private citizens. Often we here behave as if
a life and death struggle were on, and sink to the lowest
levels to win. Then, after we have won, we are at a loss to
know what to do with the victory.
BECAUSE OF our small population, the high percen-
tage Of iteracy among our people, and our intelligence, we
should be able to conduct a model campaign-one from
which the rest Of the world could take example. There are
many important issues which should and can be discussed,
and candidates should take time out to prepare themselves
before running to the public with trash, and what often
amounts to little more than what in local language is known
as melee.
WHISPERING campaigns, small talk, treacherous
moves and counter-moves are not necessary, and when re-
sorted to lower our morale into the mire, and make us the
laughing stock Of the world. Again and again small groups
line up for, or against a given candidate without any reason
whatever, simply that they must oppose someone, or must.
stand with someone, and if asked why they stand for or
against a candidate nothing intelligent whatever could be
, 1948-10-29

said.
WHILE we point to the
candidates, feeling that they
should respect their audiences
to a degree, we know that the
voters are the ones who are to
blame, for they should demand
more. If candidates knew
that they had to present some
thing of value to the voters,
they would prepare them
selves accordingly. But so
long as audiences make a glo-
rious picnic Of lectures, and
go to the marketplace to have
jokes, SO long will candidates
try hard to provide the type
of thing which they believe
goes over big with the people.
1t is time that our people
wake up, and stand for their
rights.
WE do not often throw
stones and other missiles at
speakers, although it was
twice attempted here, not
aimed at the speaker directly
but to the roof Of the building
more to cause confusion, some
what like communist tacticS)
but we cast remarks which
are highly unbecoming, and
even create greater dangers by
encouraging the type Of har-
angue which keeps us from
gaining the respect of the rest
of the world. Let Us keep in
mind that it is UN-AMERI-
CAN to demand anything but
the BEST, and once that de-
mand is made, candidates UiH
be bound to gioe It.
, 1948-10-29

-#R##E
81 Carrie: Wah bout dem 8
Emelee Poast wey dem arda fu de
cungsel de AIDA day?
Tantu Bee: oh, dem, dey amt
cumyet. Dey waitin fun transpu-
tashan. Dem bulk sob big an heavy
dey wud tex ali whoal steama fun
bring dem yah.
Sic Carrie: Buh, ME amt sic de
sence in gettin dem bulk tarl.
Tantu Bee: Yuh amt sic, buh
tiz de bes ting tn duh. Yuh tink
it sung gud tub heer bout dab
.cungsel man wey put cen e han
rite up tn e sleeve lima de dish ah
slice trubba?
Sic CARTE: VIVA part dab hap
pen?
Tartu Bees It happen dung dey
to annaly wen de president mex
dab pollitikal visit in de wudgin
hie-lands.
Sic Carrie: Buh al amt sic nut
ten wrang wild dat.
Tantu Bee: Yuh meen tub put
eedutty han in fude wey peepul
gat tub Get? Yuh amt heer de
owna ali de blak an red bus dem.
had tub tro wey de whoal ting,
nuh?
Sic Carries Vel. wei, wei chen
wild ah title tn e maine?
, 1948-10-29

Sic Garlic: Yuh hadd heer about
dab platform plank bout rural an
cite establishment? De poleece
dem jis start tn Wuk an it. Jis TEX
CONTINUED on Page a.
Evening star., 1948-06-18

Naples marvel especially when Lonsburehs offers
it to you at price thots hard to beat! Handsome,
nelowed tones durable wood and lasting construe-
tion You n so this eoodIookine 3-peee solid
maple bedroom suite And here's what you get: Large
5drower chest-onches double twin bed and dresser
or vanity, each with plote glass mirror. Dust-proof
drawers eentereuded for easy pulling with dovetoi|ed
ends. Colonial design wood pulls.
BUY YOUR BEDROOM TOMORROW, AND SAVE!
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1948-01-08
Red Cross Reports
On Disaster Relief !

In a recent edition of this paper
it was stated that Disaster Relief
would be given top rating in con-
nection with the fund campaign in
March.
During the 10-month period prior
to December l, 1947, Red Cross
chapter and national disaster work
ers have operated in more than 300
separate disasters in which over l00,-
600 persons have received emergency
or rehabilitation aid. Five major dis
asters-the Texas City explosion fire
the Oklahoma-Texas Panhandle tor
nadoes, Florida-Gulf Coast hurri-
icanes and floods (meaning the Mis-
sissippi Coast particularly and New
England forest fires, have made 1947
the greatest year for disaster expen-
ditures since the 1887 floods.
To bring the above report to date
January 1st, 1948, news comes
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sissippi, described as follows: From
a stake on the North boundary line
of SWA of Section Is, Township Is,
Range 2 East said stake being IA
chains and 80 links West of the West
boundary line of the Lexington and
Carrollton gravel road, run South
along an old fence row 81 chains to
a stake, thence run East along an
old fence row 6 chains and so links
to West boundary line of Carrollton
Street, thence run Southerly along
the West boundary line of Carroll
ton Street 1853 feet to the point OF
beginning, thence run West 315 feet
to a stake, thence run South 234 feet
to a stake on the West boundary line
of Carrollton Street, thence run
North along the West boundary line
of Carrollton Street 354 feet to the
point of beginning, said lot being
heretofore known as the Edwards
Chapel Lot; and a part of Lot 243
in the City of Lexington, Holmes
County, Mississippi, described as
follows: From a stake on the North
boundary line of SWA of Section 25,
Township Is, Range 2 East, said
stake being IA chains and 80 links
West of the West boundary line OF
the Lexington and Carrollton road
run South along an old fence row n
chains to the point Of beginning,
thence run West 329 feet to the line
between the Jordan and Wilkes land
thence run South $50 feet, thence
run East 329 feet to a stake on the
West boundary line of Carrollton
Street. thence run North $50 feet to
the point of beginning:
You are summoned to appear be-
fore the Chancery Court of the Co
unity of Holmes in said State on the
second Monday of January, A. D.
I948, to defend the suit No. 7768 in
said Court of Paralee Mclean ct
ais, to confirm and quiet the title OF
Paralee Mclean, Earsalean Mclean
and Jacob Mclean to the above de-
scribed land, wherein you are de-
PENDANTS.
This the Is day of December, 1947.
(SEAL) PARHAM H. WILLIAMS,
Clerk Of the Chancery Court OF Hol-
mes County, Mississippi. 35-4tnp
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LEGAL NOTICES


TO TENA SAFFOLD, A NON-RE-
SIDENT OF THE STATE OF MIS-
SISSIPPI, AND A RESIDENT OF
THE CITY OF DETROIT, STATE
OF MICHIGAN, WHOSE POST
OFFICE ADDRESS AND STREET
ADDRESS is 1923 EARSKIN STR
EET, DETROIT, MICHIGAN, AND
TO ALL PERSONS HAVING OR
CLAIMING ANY LEGAL OR EQUI-
TABLE INTEREST IN THE LOTS
AND PARCELS OF LAND SITUA-
TED IN THE CITY OF LExING-
TON, HOLMES COUNTY, MISSIS-
SIPPI. DESCRIBED AS A part of lot
243 according to the official map and
plat of the City of Lexington, Mis-