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Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1949-08-11

Ellie French of Stratton was
in Clintwood on business Mon
day.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1949-08-11

to what think is right. I've no cali
to dislike you for not seeing every
thing the way / see il"
From where I sit, open-minded-
ness is wonderful quality. There
are plenty of things Specs admires
that don't care for. Like his
fondness for buttermilk. I'd rather
have a glass of beer anytime -.
but Specs Allen and I don't let
little differences get in the way Of
something big like friendship.
4e M"4<
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1949-08-11
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
ARE YOU WILLING TO PAY
FOR BETTER SCHOOLS?

Within another week, most of
the schools in this county will
have opened again. Many of them
will be overcrowded; several will
be poorly housed; and some will
have teachers without sufficient
training Or experience. In this.
year of prosperity, the children
of our community will not have
as good schools as did the chill
dren in the middle of the Great
Depression. This statement holds
good, not only in Dickinson Coun
ty, but over all the United States.
The causes of these conditions
are plain. In the first place, there
are more children than ever be-
fore; school enrolment has with
in the past ten years increased
from 5000 to 5000 in this county
alone. Next, school buildings keep
on wearing out, and few have
been constructed since war re-
strictions came on nearly ten
years ago. Finally, many teachers
have gone into other work, and
few new ones have come on.
Teachers wages are VIGOROUSLY
low, and employment, except for
a very few, is not continuous dur
ing the year. Several factors,
coming along together, have push
ed the schools backward.
A small number of citizens
know of the bad situation, and
most are dimly aware of it. Many
would really like to have better
schools but very few are willing
to pay for them. During the re-
cent primary campaign, a side
walk statesman was scoring the
poor schools of Virginia. Some
body asked whether he voted for
the bond issue for schoolhoCses
in June, 1948. "Hell no! I didn't
want to put a mortgage on my
home. And. besides, it's the duty
of the state to provide schools. 81
And there you have it. People
will howl about bad schools, but
few will agree to pay for better.
1t is common mistake to say
that the entire responsibility for
good schools rests with. the state
governments. The state govern
ment of Massachusetts, supplies
less than ten per cent of the rev.
enue for schools, and Massachu-
sets rates very high among Amer
lean commonwealth in education
al standing. The local govern
Evening star., 1949-03-27

from Florida this week to start
work with her committee on boxes.
which includes Mrs. Draper Bon
compagni. Mrs. Philip o. CONN.
Mrs. Lewis Clark, Mrs. Arthur
Krock,. Mrs. Stanley Reed and
Mrs. Richard Wigglesworth. Mrs.
D. Lawrence Groner will return
on Saturday to help with the
preparations. AS honorary chair
man she is an able supporter and
close personal friend Of Mrs.
Breckinridge, and her daughter,
Mrs. Reeve Lewis, jr., is the ticket
chairman.
Other mothers and daughters
working together are Mrs. John
Washington Davidge and her
daughter. Mrs. Mark Sullivan, jr.;
Mrs. Neville Miller and Miss Bar
bara Miller. Mrs. Charles F. VIII
son and her daughter. Mrs. Sam
uel E. Neel; Mrs. Louis Green and
Miss Anne Carter Greene. Mrs.
william A. Morgan is treasurer.
Evening star., 1949-03-27

MISS MARIE HELENE DE SIBOUR.
Mrs. w. Randolph Petsch has announced the engagement
daughter Miss Marie Helene de Sbour to Mr. Thomas
Bennett Christie of Mr. William A. Christie OF NeD York
and the late Mrs. Christie.
Miss Stbor is the daughter OF Mr. Henri L. j. de Sbour
and the granddaughter of the late Mr. Jules Henri de Sbour
She is graduate of St. Patcks School at Miami Beach.
Mr. Christie seved tth the Army Air Forces during
the ,par is GRADUATE of Lehtoh Uiuersity Gogau Photo
Evening star., 1949-03-27
Frontier Nursing Service
To Hear John Mason Brown

The Washington Committee for
the Frontier Nursing Service Of
Kentucky announces with great
pleasure that Mrs. Mary Breckin-
ridge, founder and director Of the
service. will be In Washington for
their annual benefit this spring.
She will report on the recent de-
velopments Of her service. which
has become q worldwide training
center for rural nursing and mid
wifery, and will show the latest
pictures Of her Nurses on Horse
back" In their remote Kentucky
mountains.
Mrs. Adolphus Station, newly
elected chairman Of the Washing
ton Committee. also announces
the annual benefit will be q lee
ture on Seeing Things" by John
Mason Brown. Monday afternoon,
April IS, In the Mayhower Hotel
ballroom. It would not be really
spring in Washington without Mr..
Browns dramatic comments.
Mrs. Nelson Perrin has returned
Evening star., 1949-05-13
Princeton Club Directors
Elect Richard P. Dunn

Richard Price Dunn. q partne,
In the investment Arm Of Auehin'
Gloss. Parker and Redpath here
and president Of the Chevy chass
Club. was elected president o. ths
Princeton Club Of washingtor
yesterday by the groups board oa
directors.
Mr.. Dunn. who lives at 39ol
Fordham road NV. was gradu-
ated from Princeton In 1919. Hs
succeeds Judge J. Edgar Murdock
of the Tax Court Of the Unitec
States as club president. and he
win take Office in September.
Other new officers named yes
terday are Milton w. King. first
vice president: Middleton G. C
Train. second vice president
Tinsley Adams. treasurer; Mark
Sullivan. jr.. secretary: John A
Nevius, assistant treasurer: VII
Evening star., 1949-05-13

liam G.. GaIl.he-. IT., assistant
secretary. and Spencer Gordcn,
Princeton Graduate Council rep
resentative.
The Princeton Clubs annual
banquet viii be heid at 7 pm.
next Friday IN the Chevy Chase
Club. Guest speaker will be Or.
Francis r. d. Godolphin. Prince
tons Dean Of the Collese.
Evening star., 1949-05-13

ment there and the Jewish COM
munity.
Rabbi Kramer reported yester-
day to the Army Department on
rising anti-Semitism In Germany.
enlarging on his earlier report to
Gen. Lucius d. Clay. which re-
ceived wide publicity last winter.
Urges Changes In Laws.
He recommended that occupa-
ton laws providing for the resti-
tuition Of Jewish property be more
broadly applied and that an ef-
fort be made to extend them to
the British. French and Russian
zones: that Hitler's laws Of dis
termination be formally abrogated
and ell evidence Of anti-Semitisra
completely stamped out"
Particularly. Rabbi Kramer
urged. the Western powers should
provide increased personnel for
the German school systematic
only medium through which the
long-range thinking Of the Ger
mans can be changed.
Meeting reporters In the Hotel
Statler. Rabbi Kramer said our
military has done "a tremendous
job" for the Jews In Germany.
His fear. he said. is that the Ger
mans will turn against the Jewish
population once again as the oc-
cupation forces are gradually
withdrawn.
Jews Being Blamed.
Already" he said, "the Ger
mans tend to blame the Jews
again for their misfortunes. The
Jews are blamed for the loss of
the war-for the destruction of
German cities, particularly Nuern-
berg-and for whatever oppressive
measures the Allies may employ
today"
Dr. Kramer said he was in
formed at the Pentagon yesterday
that the Army Department soon
win send Col. George Lynch to
Germany to investigate the gen.
eral question Of German demo-
cratization under the occupation,
including the attitude Of the Ger
mans Wward the jews in the
country
There are more than 2,000
branch factories of American in
dustrieSs In. Canada.
Evening star., 1949-05-13
Jewish Weifure Unis Elects

These wkshsrgtanaars we're
elected so the beard az directors
Of the National Jewish wesfarv
Beard recently In New York
Morris Cafrtsx. Edmund ]. Kau.-
mann. Milton w. King. Robert n
Nathan. David X. Niles and Ars
Ethyl Novak.
Evening star., 1949-05-13
Navy Offers 30 Vehicles
For Sole Next Friday

More than 90 weapons carriers
buses and other passenger vehicles
win be sold publicly by the Navy
at Q am. next Friday In Buiidins
lT6. the Naval Gun Factory.
Sealed bids for the used motor
vehicles may be brought or sent
to the gun factory before Friday
All bids must include IS per cen,
OF the amount and must be made
payable to the Treasurer Of the
United States. The equipment viii
be sold on an AS is" basis.
Evening star., 1949-05-13
rabbi Kramer Reports
German Anti -Semitism
May Gust $4,000 Jews

II present conditions continue.
the &c. 900 to $4,000 Jews who
would like to remain In Germany
after the Allies relax their control
Evening star., 1949-05-13

WILL not pe eoie
to remain.
This is the
opinion of
Rabbi Simon @.
Kramer. vice
president of the
S y n a G o 8 u e
&c o u n Gil of
A m e rica. re-
Gently returned
from a year in
O e r m q n y as
liaiSon repre-
sentative be-
tween our mill
\ o - 10 unUown
Evening star., 1949-05-13

There are more than 2,000
branch factories of American in
dustries ins Canada.
Evening star., 1949-09-02

delimited powers. The northwest
ern state would comprise the
provinces Of Ninghsia, Kansu,
Tsinghai and Sinkiang; the Mon
golian state would include the
outer and inner provinces, and the
Eastern provinces of China would
form a third state, or be divided
into two, north and south.
Some thought was given to the
crucial matter Of choosing state
leaders. Ma Pu-fang was sug-
gested to head the northwest,
Prince Tah wang for Mongolia
and Gov. Chang chun of Szechwan
for the eastern province.
Underground Extension.
Delegates to the conference re-
ported that outer Mongolia is
today totally under the Russian
thumb. 1t has a good army, Com
munist indoctrinated, we'll off,
cered and we'll armed. But the
Mongolian underground is said
to be extensive and highly organ
lied. Although some wishful
thinking must be seen. my inform
Evening star., 1949-09-02
New Hospital Building
Pay Scales Approved
Special pispoieh to The Star

WINCHESTER, Va. Sept. o.
Wage scales recently prescribed
by the Department of Labor for
workers on the 100000 expan-
sion of Winchester Memorial
Hospital have been approved with
increases in at least four classi-
fications, according to Homer E
AIberti. hospital administrator.
The crafts increased in the final
decision included the following
Roofers, from $1.65 to 50 per
hour: sheet-metal workers. 1926
to $3.50; stone masons. $3.50 to
$2.75, and tile settlers, $3.50 to
$2.65.
Mr.. Alberti said the effect would
be to increase the cost Of pro-
posed improvements by at least
100000.
Hospital authorities had pro-
tested the preliminary wage rates
Of the Labor Department on the
ground that they were higher
than actually paid in the area
The protest resulted in public
hearing at which all the building
crafts represented protested any
cut in the proposed wage scales
Evening star., 1949-09-02

both Inner and Outer Mongolia
The Mongols don't want to be ex-
plotted by any far-o1 central
Chinese authority, Nationalist or
Communist. They would, how
ever, favor remaining part Of a
federal China.
Due to Misrule.
The point that they make Is
that China's troubles are due in
large part to misrule; and that
this is the inevitable outcome Of
centralized government for an
area as vast and as varied as
China. Anxious to see their ter
ritory and all Of China become a
true democracy, the Mongols in
sist that this can be achieved only
by educating the great mass OF
the people to their civic rights
and obligations toward govern
ment close enough to them to
have some identity and which Is
in turn interested and familiar
with the territory 1t governs.
The Mongol plan would divide
China into three or four self
governing states somewhat sim
liar to Americas 48, linked by a
federal government with clearly
Evening star., 1949-09-02
Liquor License Notices
To Citizen Groups Urged

The Northeast Council Of Cit
izens' Associations last night IA
vored the notification of each
citizens association when a liquor
license is transferred or is applied
for.
In other action. the group op-
posed the proposed increase in
gasoline taxes, favored the return
of Mckinley and Anacostia SWIM
ming pools to a segregated status,
and requested a commission for
the District and adjacent areas
to. coordinate tax and other
matters.
The organization met at No. IL
Police Precinct Station, Rhode
Island avenue and Seventeenth
street NE.
Evening star., 1949-09-02
Plans for Youth Conference
At White House Mapped

The first meeting Of the national
committee of the Mid-Century
White House Conference on Chill
dren and Youth will be held Thurs
day and Friday at the White
House to map plans for the con-
ference here next year.
Federal Security Administrator
Oscar r. Ewing. committee chair
man. will preside.
The committee was appointed
recently by the President and Is
made up of more than so educa-
tors, labor leaders. physicians,
clergymen, economists and civic
leaders.
Next years conference will be
the fifth held under auspices OF
a President. The first was called
by President Theodore Roosevelt
in 1909.
Evening star., 1949-09-02
IWeI|-Groomed Illinois Farmers
|Astound British Countrymen

His outfit included a nylon shirt
with socks to match, q blue silk
tie with red squares and yellow
ships sailing all over it. a gold
ring and a gold tiepin.
The Americans, on a flve-week
tour of Europe, pitched into an
old fashioned farmers feed in
the lamp-lit school hall-home
made sausage rolls, jam tarts. to-
mato juice. beer and cider.
Later, it was just like a county
fair back home. There were
American square dances and the
British version, called the Roger
de Coverley. Mrs. Mary Milligan
of Urbana, ILL.,, led a sing song.
Ralph Allen, who farms 200
acres at Delavan. ILL.,, said: cal
ready we are finding out your
farming problems - shortage OF
labor, Of food for your workers and
of land suitable for cultivation.
Evening star., 1949-09-02
~ the Assoeiofsd Press

LITTLE GADDESDEN. Eng
land Sept. 2.-Fifty Illinois farm
ers here to study English country
life are drawing a lot Of study from
the English.
Their business suits and gen.
eral grooming don't At the Eng
lish idea of STRENGTHENING, over
allied hayseeds. They have caused
a bigger stir than whole brood
of three legged chicks.
I've never seen any farmers
like these" chuckled Steve Oakins,
70-year -old retired village post
master. "A lot of Clark Gables,
that's what they are"
Miss Margaret Somersby chimed
in: They all look like film stars"
Sure, I guess we guys on the
land like our clothes to At well" /"
laughed Fred Zimmerman, a sun
tanned, 2oo-pound farmer from
San Jose, Ill.
Evening star., 1949-09-02
Stomach Search Illegal.
Federal Judge Rules
By the Assoeiatsd Press

LOS ANGELES. Sept. Its
illegal to search a mans stomach
for evidence, a Federal judge has
ruled.
After giving the opinion that
such a procedure is trial by or
DEAL" Judge Jacob Weinberger
Yesterday dismissed narcotics
charges brought against Andrew
Willis, whose stomach was
searched.
Willis, 42-year-old laborer, was
arrested June 26 by Federal
narcotics agents. He was taken to
hospital, strapped to a bed and
stomach pump was applied.
Oficers said they recovered two
capsules of heroin by this method.
Judge Weinberger commented
that this was "the most unusual
procedure" he had ever heard OF
for obtaining evidence.
However. Willis was Immediately
rearrested by Los Angeles police
on . State narcotics charge.
Evening star., 1949-09-02
THE EVENING STAR, Washington, D. c. ~ A-2s
Z,

ants reported that the time VIII
soon be ripe and the underground
ready to take over the army
through. the lower echelons, then
win control Of the province as an
independent Mongol state.
This, it is stressed, might be .
lever toward liberalization OF
China. The Mongols. one and all.
were emphatic In saying to n1e
that they feel they are doing their
share or fighting constant Russian
oppression and have q right to
look to the United States for aid
in this.
Evening star., 1949-09-02
Winchester Site Cleared
For New Fruit Laboratory
By the Assoeiofsd Press

WINCHESTER. Va. Sept. g.
More than 10 acres fronting on
the Valley pike. just south OF
Winchester, have been cleared tor
the erection of a new and larger
plant for the Winchester Fruit Re-
search Laboratory.
The Virginia General Assembly
at the 1948 session appropriated
Sis, 900 for expansion Of the lab
oratory, which is under the gen.
eral supervision Of the Virginia
Agricultural Experiment Station,
Blacksburg.
Plans call for construction Of q
main laboratory building costing
$65, 900, a $4,000 insectory. 500
600 machine shop and spray
rooms and 10000 greenhouse.
The cost of land will be in addi-
ton to these items.
The laboratory now Is housed
in an old frame building north OF
Winchester. The new brick-and-
steel constructed buildings are ex-
pected to be ready for occupancy
within a year.
Evening star., 1949-09-02
|Gurdener Jailed
For Turning Hose
Ion Possinq Girl

An over-enthusiastic park gar.
dener who included q passing
stroller In his lawn-watering re-
ceived jail sentence in NUM-
eipal Court yesterday.
Miss Gloria Cough, 16. OF. 1865
Avon place NV, told Judge Au-
brey B. Fennell that the laborer
John Frank Stith. 28. colored
aimed the hose at her as she wa
walking in Montrose Park.
She demonstrated and Stitf
apologized, Miss Cough continued
Then he turned the hose on hei
again, dousing her blouse anc
skirt. she said.
SStith, who lives In the 400 block
Of Irving street NV. pleaded
guilty to a charge Of assault and
GOT 30 days.
Evening star., 1949-09-02
kongo| Leaders Meei
Ito Plan Autonomous
State in West China
By Diane lie G.. Rowson

North American Newspaper Alliance
TING YUAN YING. North
west China CBy AirmaiD An un-
precedented conference of Mon
golian princes and leaders was
held here the second week in
August to make concrete plans
for the future of Mongolia.
Despite washed-out roads. flood
ed airfields and the proximity Of
the Communist front line, a
great many delegates came by
every modern conveyance and
some older forms of transport to
this ancient city on the southern
rim of the Cobb Desert, near the
foot Of the towering ALASKAN
Mountains.
Prime objective is an autono-
nous Mongolian state. comprising
Evening star., 1949-09-02
German Police Found
Endeavoring TO Use
Democratic Methods
BY the Associated Press

FRANKFURT, Germany. Sept.
"A group of American police
chiefs have reported here that
they found German police "lean-
ing over backward trying to use
democratic methods"
They warned, however, that
there is growing danger OF re-
version to brutality end centra-
lized state police systems. And
they expressed fear that too many
Nazis are creeping hack into the
police ranks.
The Americans criticized Amer
lean Military Government for re-
ducing too soon and too sharply
its staff of public safety officers
who used to work with and super
wise German police activities.
This opens the way for the re-
turn of Gestapo methods the AL
lies are trying to stamp out, they
warned.
These views were expressed at
a press conference by three Amer
ican police officials who came here
as special advisers to American
Military Government.
Germans Doing Fine Job.
They are John M. Gleason. chief
of police in Greenwich. Conn.,;
Howard w. Hoyt. chief of police
| in Kalamazoo, Mich, and 1t. Far
ley E. Morgan, of the Oregon State
Police. Rex r. Andrews, chief Of
police in Winnetka. ILL.,. also
worked with the group, but re-
turned to the United States last
week.
All agreed German police are
doing a good job. considering
their shortage of facilities and
their inexperience caused by loss
of veterans through war and de-
notification.
They lean over backward try
ing to use democratic methods"
said 1t. Mogan. United States
military government has stressed
that they must observe individual
rights, and in some respects they
go even farther than we some
times do in the States"
But" he added. "the German
people have not yet learned to
demand their own rights and un-
less we Americans keep the pres
sure on the police they are likely
to fall back into their old ways"
Mr.. Gleason said the number OF
American police supervisors has
been "thinned dangerously"
I'VE should remember that the
German police have been part
and parcel of the Nazi police state.
and provide good. alert men in
the field to watch them." he
cautioned.
Controls Seen Ended too Soon.
Mr.. Hoyt suggested that I'VE are
taking off our controls too soon.
Before the Germans have really
learned democracy.
AS an example Of how former
Nazis are returning to police jobs.
the police chiefs said 500 out Of
l 100 rural police in the state OF
Wuerttemberg Baden were one
time party men.
There are more than twice as
many police in Germany. in COM
parison to population than in the
United States, the Americans
noted.
They agreed the Germans
crime detection is superb" but
complained that they paid too
little attention to crime preven-
ion.
THE Germans keep big groups
of men in reserve to rush out
when a crime happens. while in
America we keep our policemen
out on their beat to prevent crime
happening" 1t. Mogan COM
mented,
Evening star., 1949-09-02
Monday Is Labor Day,
1hanksto Union Man {
SUGGESTION in 1882

CHICAGO. Sept. 2 (CDN.-
Most Of the Nations working men
and women will have next Mon
day-the Nations 56th annual
Labor Day-off with pay because
of Peter j. MCGUIRE.
It was MCGUIRE. union cabinet
maker in New York, who noted
that nations celebrated days for
saints, politicians, harvests, wars
and statesmen, but did not honor
workers.
He said that ordinary working
men were the ones who from rude
nature have delved and carved
all the grandeur we behold"
Approved by Labor Council.
On May 8, 1882, Mcclure. then
80 and general secretary of the
Carpenters International Union,
proposed a holiday for workers at
a meeting of New York'S newly
formed Central Labor Union.
why not a Labor Day?" he
pleaded, twisting the dropping
ends of his handle-bar mustache,
his neck reddening above his high
celluloid collar and black bow tie
"It should be on a Monday, so
workers will have two successive
days of rest. It should be between
independence Day and Thanks
giving Day, so it won't crowd up
against some other holiday"
The Central Labor Council ap-
proved.
On September S. 1882, New York
celebrated the first Labor Day
Workers paraded up Broadway to
Union Square and then to Elm
Park for a picnic, concert and
speeches.
Adopted by Federation.
AT the fourth convention OF the
American Federation Of Labor in
Chicago in 1884, Delegate A. C.
Cameron proposed that the flrst
Monday in September each year
be labor's national holiday.
The convention adopted the
resolution.
On February 81, 1887. Oregon
enacted the first law for a labor
holiday. but set the first Saturday
in June. Six years later the date
was changed to the first Monday
in September.
Colorado enacted the first law
designating the first Monday in
September-in 1887.
In 1894 Congress passed a La
Dor Day holiday law and Presi-
dent Grover Cleveland signed it
June %, 1894.
Evening star., 1949-09-02
Robinson Named Head
OF RELIGIOUS Conference

The Rev. Allyn p. Robinson,
founder Of the Raleigh Institute
Of Religion, has been appointed
director of the Commission on
Religious Organizations Of the
National Conference Of Christians
and Jews, It was announced yes
terday by DR.. Sterling w. Brown.
general director Of the conference.
Mr.. Robinson, formerly on the
faculty Of North Carolina State
College, has been NCCJ director
for North and South Carolina
since 1916.
Evening star., 1949-08-29
Save On A Magnificent
Serpentine-Fron
Secretary
69.95
Tuesday and Wednesday Only

Just look at that graceful serPen-
tine-front! Just see the exquisitely
motched mahogany veneers on hard
wood. Just note the typieolly 10Th
century "l3 States" grIIwork on the
Gloss door bookcase /. the grace
ful pediment top boIl-ond-eIow
Ieos. The desk has automatic slides,
the 8 deep drawers hold plenty
linens. A buy like you haven't seen
in many q day.
IN Floor washington: ,rd Floor. Siluer Spring