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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1944
Page
1
A tanker truck leaking chlorine gas caused about 400 people to collapse or feel ill at a busy Brooklyn intersection. Four subway lines were halted for 46 minutes as victims were treated, with 127 in serious condition and no fatalities reported.
Allied headquarters report increased reinforcements on Biak Island to support U S forces pushing toward Mokmer airfield while snipers and mortar fire slow advances. Farther afield, American actions in Maffin Bay push Nipponese casualties to 1453 since May 17.
Washington announces carrots and citrus juices join the ration-free list starting Sunday and all meats stay unrationed through July 1. Cheese values drop by two points to 10 per pound, evaporated and condensed milk cut 50 percent to a half point per pound. Pineapple juice rises to 15 points per two can, grape juice up to 10 points per pint. Butter remains 12 points per pound. margarine two points. Beef steaks and roasts stay rationed with chuck cuts down two points. Overall values range 6 to 13 points per pound.
Munford Cenroy Gills 75 former president of Bluefield Grocery co 1105 Highland Ave died yesterday afternoon at Bluefield Sanitarium after paralysis. Born Aug 6 1869 in Notta way county Va he was son of Asa Handley Gills and Caroline Poindexter Gills. He survived five brothers and three sisters and helped build the Elks National Home in Bedford before a long business career in Bedford Lynchburg and surrounding areas.
Chinese and American troops captured Malakawng in the Dogaung valley, described as the center of Japanese resistance, after pushing from the south and west. Allied forces close on the 18th Division near Myitkyina, establishing a frontline and trapping enemy units along the Kamaing-Mogaung road.
Shepherdstown West Virginia June 1 municipal election looms with no filed candidates for mayor recorder or five council seats. Voters must write in their selections to fill town offices.
United States forces carried out new bombing raids on the Kurile islands starting Monday and striking Shumushu in a pre dawn Tuesday attack. Ventura search planes reported only light anti aircraft fire with no damage confirmed. The strikes followed a Sunday sweep across Shumushu Parimushiro Matsuwa and Shimusiri.
Secretary Hull declares a policy of championing liberty for everybody and urges all nations to aspire to freedom. He recalls U S recognition of new republics after colonial yokes and links this to a postwar world organization to protect small nations as the United States treats Parsee and other groups equally.
An electrical storm and heavy rain in West Virginia killed two people and damaged property. In Morgantown, Harry Leroy Genesch 38 of Pottsville Pa died when his car hit a stationary machine on the Morgantown ordnance works site. Mrs Mabel Etta Murphy 25 of Maysel Clay County was struck by lightning while turning on an electric switch in her home. A fire at the home of Arnold Asbury near Charleston destroyed the structure. Water shortages hindered firefighting efforts.
John Bricker attacks hush-a-bye politics at Hershey Ohio meeting while Dewey leads Republican hopes with Warren as potential running mate. He vows to pursue the nomination through convention deliberations as Bricker campaigns into New Jersey and Indiana for delegate support, tallying 22 district caucus delegates last Thursday.
The war department notified next of kin yesterday of the deaths of two army privates from the Tazewell area. Lawrence Samuel Smith was killed in action on Anzio beachhead, and Arch Kinder died in a Florida government hospital after evacuation from India. Arch Kinder’s body was expected to arrive soon, with funeral services to be held at the Edwards home.
American soldiers break a strong Nazi line near Rome and encircle the Velletri fortress as Allied forces press their advance. The operation follows a series of setbacks to German defenses in central Italy.
London reports heavy RAF actions at dawn and night across northern France. Marauders and Thunderbolts attacked key railway yards at Tergnier Treppes and Saumur to disrupt invasion supply lines. Night bombers hit Trappes Terepnier and Saumur while Mustangs and other fighters shot down a German plane near Borkum.
Gen. GO. R. Gellette, 99, reputed last surviving commissioned Confederate officer, died of a heart attack in the Caddo parish courthouse service office. He served with Stonewall Jackson, carried Jackson after Chancellorsville, and fought at Gettysburg and Appomattox.
Milton Davis a colored man arrested May 23 on selective service charges waived extradition to New York to face first degree murder charges. He confessed to being Leonard Wilson 39, now pursued for killing Rufus Jenkins in Harlem on Oct 27, 1940. Wilson allegedly shot Jenkins with a .32 caliber automatic pistol after a whist game dispute. He fled New York with his wife and two year old daughter, later imprisoned here.
Charleston June 1 Jim H Shott Bluefield publisher and radio executive received the personal endorsement of Mayor D Boone Dawson Republican gubernatorial nominee for chairmanship of the state executive committee. Dawson urged election at the Charleston reorganization meeting Saturday. The Democratic committee meets next Monday at Parkersburg with indications Joe L Smith of Beckley may be chosen chairman.
Strong-See Page 2 Set. Aviation personnel Robert Charles Wagner, former Bluefield Virginia resident, has been missing over Germany since May 12. His mother Gladys Wagner, now of Christiansburg, Virginia, has been notified by the War Department. He is a B-17 Flying Fortress engineer trainee at Cochran Field Georgia, Tyndall Field Florida, and Pyote Texas. He is the son of the late E. M. Wagner and nephew of Mrs. R. Wagner, Mrs. W. Prench, and Mrs. A. W. Ruble, all of Bluefield. He has a brother aviation cadet James E. Wagner, stationed at Maxwell Field, Alabama, and a sister Kathryn Wagner of Beckley.
Allied troops in a night advance pierced the German line around Velletri in the Alban hills and seized Mount Peschio ridge near Rome. Field dispatches note American units closed toward Rome as dawn found them dug in and consolidating gains amid stubborn German resistance.
Official East River district recount shows Charles McGuire 887 and E. Dale Bailey 901 for justice of the peace, Bailey with a 14 vote lead. Unofficial tallies favored Bailey 891 to 910 before recount adjustments across Oakvale Mercer courthouse precincts and numbered stations.
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