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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1948
Page
4
Bluefield Daily Telegraph header states start year 1893 and publishing details. It lists address 412 Bland Street Bluefield West Virginia and notes Associated Press membership and distribution rights for dispatches and news.
A White House session mapped a vigorous European recovery program with Secretary of State Marshall and ECA chief Hoffman among the aides. The move includes advancing the Marshall plan grants and seeking extra funds to sustain recovery through next June while optimism grows for a Berlin blockade lift and a possible settlement with Russia.
John Foster Dulles described the Europe the United States hopes to aid as politically strong, economically independent, unified, morally dynamic, and capable of a new industrial revolution. He warned against disunity and warned that the U S will not tie its fate to a fragmented western Europe.
The text cites Luke 10 29 and argues that true love to God is shown through neighborly love. It emphasizes that neglect of neighbor undermines professed love to God and that loving God nourishes love for others.
The piece argues politicians target workers and farmers, not business, noting leaders often move between business and politics. It cites West Virginia as an example where worker leaders urged a vote against the Democratic slate, yet voters backed the advised candidate.
Two temporary laws fueling sharp clashes are likely to become permanent statutes in the next Congress. The Trade Agreements Act lets the President negotiate tariff cuts with foreign powers and enactment takes effect without further congressional steps. The Government Reorganization Act faces similar renewal debates as Democrats held power.
A dramatic verse tale portrays an ailing grandmother’s burden on the family. Descriptions show her meek nature clashing with relatives as she wanders rooms, faces speculation, and moves between kin like Nell, Uncle Jack, and others while secrets unfold.
Marshall disputed Gen Lucius Clay and Ambassador Murphy on Berlin mediation and the Ruhr decision to return industry to German cartels. A leak probe followed a front page Berlin story repeating Clay and Murphy's views. Montana Senator Murray urged extending anti monopoly efforts as Truman defended his electoral forecast.
A Northfork discussion questions the new town administration and missing town records. Citizens complain about lax reckless driving enforcement, bond forfeitures, and alleged misuse of town hall and jail. A Mercer county dealer’s wife reportedly investigates her husband, while Okey Asbury leads the local police desk with busy observations.
A Norfolk and Western worker questions city responsibility for grime along railroad rights of way and notes Bluefield does not wash its streets. The piece also covers stadium debt decisions and sports talk including a proposed Toilet Bowl game promoted by Bugs Buford and the master plumbers in Mercer county.
Jane Wyman may cast an unknown Hollywood singer as lead in Serenade. Victor Mature shifts to a documentary style Mountie role at Fox. Betty Grable fights a two month cold on The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend set. Elsa Lanchester hunts for two lost cats. Shirley Temple deemed too old for The Black Rose by Henry Hathaway. Walter Brennan tops earnings among stars as Dan Dailey and others address rumors and projects.
Weather forecasting is described as a growing business selling predictions to railroads, shippers, airlines, and corporations. John E. Wallace, a former Army Air Forces officer, launches a private forecasting service promising detailed, area-specific meteorology beyond official bureaus. The piece mocks cashing in on weather and envisions ads promising peace of mind through forecasts.
The article discusses forecasts guiding commerce and daily life, urging readers to prepare for any weather from rain to snow. It notes a Christmas promotion offering mink coats with a deep freeze unit for answering rain or snow questions and mentions public figures involved in inflation control and price regulation debates.
The text denounces Geo Sokolsky and a Soviet propaganda effort against the United States. It calls American journalism complicit in censorship, highlighting attacks on U.S. papers, book reviews, magazines, and editors. It contrasts alleged capitalist suppression with Soviet free press rhetoric and criticizes Marshall’s censorship claims. It notes editors fear boycott and lynching as modern censorship.
Recap of long-ago happenings from Daily Telegraph dating fifty to twenty years back. Mentions attorneys, engineers from Norfolk meeting, Newport and Bluefield marriages, Elk memorial address in Bluefield, veterans returning from France, a Lynchburg wedding, coal mine fatalities, a courtroom verdict in Princeton, and the death of a Norfolk and Western railroad wife in Sandlick Mercer.
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