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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1944
Page
4
Substantial garbled text outlines subscription rates by mail and carrier for West Virginia, with unclear years and prices. The fragment references the Associated Press and republication rights, but provides no coherent dates or figures beyond hints of annual and six month periods and small rate lines.
A collage of religious quotes from Proverbs Romans and Bouhours about wealth, friendship, and salvation. The page includes a brief line urging to Buy a Bond alongside scripture snippets. The tone resembles a mixed devotional and classifieds page with short scripture fragments.
News describes the 3 32 a m western invasion of Normandy against Axis forces, noting widespread prayer across Bluefield and at churches. Citizens sought divine aid for troops in Europe and the Pacific as General Eisenhower credited the thousands of invasion forces. Buy a Bond.
Attorney General Francis Biddle told a house committee President Roosevelt had to seize the Chicago Montgomery Ward plant to avert disaster and back the war labor board. He argued a failure to act risked broad strikes that could threaten the war effort, drawing sharp counterpoints about prior seizures and miner strikes.
The author attacks the response to strikes in war production, questions Attorney General Biddle’s defense of government seizures, and condemns the New Deal's handling of labor and manpower. He mocks memo waste and endorses bond buying while predicting shifts in manpower decisions before November.
The Wheeling Intelligencer congratulates James H. Shott of Bluefield on his selection as chairman of the Republican state executive committee. The editorial lauds Shott as a top party organizer and analyst and expresses confidence he will rally state support for the Republican ticket in the upcoming election. It also honors retiring chairman Robert H. C. Kay for guiding the party through lean years and the 1942 campaign.
A poem reflecting on aging and memory as youth dies in the wake of last dances, games, and songs. The speaker honors the dead as spectators fade and the living carry forward with prayers, while time keeps moving.
Washington reports a sharp, morally framed clash in Texas and South Carolina over delegation loyalties to FDR. Lyndon Johnson and Pappy O’Daniel figure in Texas maneuvering while South Carolina eyes withholdings to avoid boosting Roosevelt. The Brewster affair and navy opposition to the plant tie into broader wartime conversion debates.
The navy halted plane production at a plant without consulting the War Manpower Commission or the Economic Stabilizer Byrnes. CIO workers intervened locally, forcing the government to stop the cut and Byrnes pledged worker protections. The Baruch report for business conversion was largely forgotten.
Congress faced criticism over tax publicity yet passed a bill over Roosevelt's veto, trimming treasury 30 percent excises on many items to 20 percent or less. Only the cabaret tax remains at 30 percent as the public recalls the broader proposal.
Francis Henry Taylor director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art contributed to the New York Times Sunday Magazine with an article on what makes a painting great. He illustrates it with six Metropolitan masterpieces and notes their return to the walls after wartime storage.
In a Bluefield sanitarium story a novice nurse aids a patient with a bedtime routine and jokes about kissing goodnight. Another tale from a Southern army camp recalls a clumsy recruit and a sharp captain asking how long he has served, the reply being all day.
Judge J G Holbrook joins a trip to Saint Louis for the World’s Fair. Mr and Mrs Will Douthat return from Wytheville Virginia after visiting Mr and Mrs J D Kessler. Edwin Mann president of the First National Bank attends the State Bank association meeting in Huntington.
C H Goodykoontz came back from Atlanta where he attended the Rexall druggists annual convention. Mrs E Edmonds returned home after visiting relatives in Petersburg Virginia. Ind Thomas Vass arrived in Bluefield to visit his parents after completing a post graduate course at Nem Baltimore College for Physicians.
Sgt. Ted John, recuperating from injuries sustained when an ammunition train exploded in North Africa, has returned to his home at White Sulphur Springs. He awaits orders for non combat duty and recalls the food shortages and hotels during his service, with remarks about Leggs Hawley visiting Ashford.
The article notes a Hatfield Lilly tie in West Virginia GOP delegations to the national convention. It names Dr Henry Drury Hatfield former state official and Gen A A Lilly known as Cousin Abe along with local relatives McGinnis Hatfield and Ernest D Lilly as district delegates signaling strong family influence.
Twenty years ago today the city board discussed widening Bland street while the Rotary club endorsed plans for county fair grounds. Harold Epling of Welch returned home from Blacksburg where he had been attending school.
Ten years ago today Bluefielders E R Crotty and Miss Gertrude Steels were named officers of the State Christian Endeavor society at Charleston. New Bluefield Elks officers were installed by Jess H Franklin with Dr Frank M OBrien as exalted ruler. Dr and Mrs Carr and son Billy returned from Charleston after a West Virginia Osteopathic Association meeting.
A columnist discusses favorite works at the Metropolitan Museum, praising Vermeer Rembrandt and El Greco while critiquing Winslow Homer's Gulf Stream and the popularity of the Martin canvas. He names Meindert Hobbema Brueghel Hals Rousseau and others, and notes preference for Eakins Bellows and Blakelock.
A glimpse of Manhattan activities as the Astor roof opens for summer with Robert K. Christenberry promoting Harry James and his Music Makers. Eddie Cantor jokes with a dancer as James brings back many band members and adds new players led by Kitty Kellen and Buddy DeVito. Natalie Bodanya headlines at La Vie Parisienne with Paris in the Spring and Abacadara, Youre in Love. Ray Bourbon is renewed as a draw while Reva Reyes and Harold Fonville provide multilingual performances. The piece closes with the Clare mont Inn opening and a dinner.
The Zarief family welcomes American quadruplets Isadora Ellen Elaine and Benjamin at home amid publicity and business talk. The piece muses on future fame and banking stock while noting Columbia and OPA trends and a cabaret tax cut.
The Claremont, dating to 1806 as a country manor and now city owned, hosts dining with views of the Hudson. Patrons recall past wars from 1812, with Joseph Bonapa in exile and music by Pedro and his Rhumba Band plus Arnold Schleifer running Tavern-on-the-Green links. A line notes a generation unfamiliar with trains now in uniform, traveling widely.
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