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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1945
Page
5
The city sees 45 candidates entering the municipal race with filings due by midnight. Primary is June 12, selecting two nominees per district for July 3 elections to serve four years starting August 1, 1945. Only eight had certified by press time, with apathy noted among both citizens and leaders.
A congressman claims 75 million Americans patronize black markets, prompting a call for renewed patriotism as war regulations test public tolerance. The piece lauds wartime unity, notes profiteers, and jokes about Iceland funding a university via a national lottery and a class on probability tied to gambling.
Treasury Secretary Morgenthau urges Congress to fund a wide tax evasion crackdown with 10 000 new staff including 5 000 field agents dubbed T men and 5 000 office workers. He says an appropriation of 30 to 50 million is justified by expected revenue from pursuing hundreds of millions in unpaid federal income taxes.
A Wall Street Journal editorial condemns Treasury led church pulpit briefings on Bretton Woods as improper government leverage to sway Congress. Officials held off the record sessions in federal offices to push ratification, risking church neutrality and state separation.
A reflective poem by Isobel Stone describes a hilltop view under night sky. The speaker wonders about immensity and self, seeing a star outlined on grass and questioning meaning. The verse frames a quiet meditation on fate, perception, and the smallness of the individual.
The article details WPA and WFA debates on food production. It notes shifts in goals for 1945 poultry, echoes past shortages, and records a costly subsidy scheme that was never adopted. It also reports a turf clash between Rep Taber and Rep Cannon over a $2,500 congressional expense allowance and political maneuvering in the appropriations committee.
A wartime Alsatian man refused to serve the German army and hid with his wife and eight year old daughter near Strasbourg. After allied bombing, he buried his wife in a handmade coffin from a ruined home and later sought an American captain to return to Strasbourg with his child.
A man in Strasbourg endures shelling as he relocates his wife’s coffin from an old box to a new grave. He and his eight year old daughter walk to the cemetery where, alone, he digs a fresh grave and places his wife beside kin before leading his child home.
Glamorous journalist Kathryn Cravens examines fan letters with a Sherlock Holmes lens at the colony while French talks flavor the Versailles act. Glor ia Nord trains pretties at the Gay Blades rink ahead of ASRCA tryouts as Arlene Francis collaborates on a British crossword puzzle. Chuchu Martinez wires from Hollywood about housing with Estrelita Rodrigues as Arturo de Cordova plans a hotel room return. Murtah Sisters report 34 marriage proposals during USO tours. Metropolitan Opera extends Edward Johnson contract for two more years as Helena Bliss enjoys a Rockefeller Plaza breeze. David Cowles reads Social Register at Penguin Country Club while Morton Downey, Edward O Leary and Joseph Kennedy dine at Bradley's.)
Brief notices touch on Brian Aherne and his stage deftness and a restaurant receiving 183 photo requests for Lynn Gilmore. Kate Smith’s call for blind-service medical aid yields more than 1000 donated instruments via the Salvation Army for Valley Forge General Hospital. A reflection notes the cost of a love letter versus a postage stamp.
H J Phillips recounts Pfc Joe McGee who served two years hard labor after a fight with nine Nazi prisoners. He knocked down four, missed five, and was pardoned amid debate over wartime discipline and Geneva conventions.
Private Purkéy On Locking By Joe McGee recounts a wartime tribunal topic with Moe Feinstein noting two years in a different case while McGee returns to service in good standing. The column blends humor and political allusion with references to Truman and everyday life in postwar America.
A garbled World Herald item quotes Suzuki promising eventual victory to the Emperor while urging the son of heaven to take care of his health and visit a dentist. The fragment hints at wartime leadership and the urgency of personal care during conflict.
Hollywood notes detail Alan Ladd working late on The Blue Dahlia and a parade of star moves. Veronica Lake, Paulette Goddard, Betty Hutton, and Liz Whitney features plus sightings of John Wayne, Clark Gable, Gloria De Haven and more in Los Angeles nightlife and on-set chatter.
Daily Telegraph notes on anniversaries with Henry Peery and Will Gilespie leaving Graham for Norfolk for positions. Dr F W Smith returns from Philadelphia. Lee McChesney of Bristol visits Bluefield. Also mentions past events from thirty, twenty, ten years ago including politics and deaths.
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