Bluefield Daily Telegraph Publication Details
Bluefield Baily Telegraph est 1993 published every morning except Monday by the Daily Telegraph Printing Co. Entered December 15, 1893 as second class matter at the Bluefield post office under the March 3 1878 act. Associated Press member. Carrier 3 cents weekly. mail $12 per year in West Virginia. Advertising via The Katz Agency.
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Honey and wax chosen to fill hives for sweetness and light
A compact reflection on using honey and beeswax as noble offerings over dirt and poison. The quotes from Psalm 19 10 and Jonathan Swift elevate bees products as symbols of pure value and enlightenment.
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Jonathan Swift
Truce Signed Between Warring Tribes in Holy Land
A 30 day truce was signed by the Jews and Arabs and will take effect at 1 am Friday. The accord seeks lasting peace, acknowledging the disputed territory’s reverence to millions of wanderers and aiming to restore it as a homeland. The piece also comments on Eisenhower's political stance and potential presidential nomination.
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Holy Land
Dorothy Hart
Mary Pickford
Lona Henry
Dorothy
van Johnson
Rhode Island
Van
Hollywood
Albert Sharpe
Finian
Rainbow
Peggy Cummins
Robert Taplinger
Bob
Peggy
Gene Solow
New Dealers Remember Henry Wallace and the New Deal
The piece recalls Henry Wallace as a central New Deal figure and criticizes his Third Party run. It links his rise to power with Roosevelt era spending and praise, then notes shifts in support after his Madison Square Garden speech and distant anti communist investigations. The article frames Wallace as central to the New Deal era and questions Democratic trust.
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Henry Wallace
New Deal
Hank Wallace
Menry
Roosevelt
Henry
Madigan Square Garden
Congress
Dies un-Americanism
New Deal Administration
Wallace
Eisenhower Politics In Question As He Takes Columbia Post
Speculation about General Eisenhower's party Affiliation continues as he becomes Columbia University president. He has declined nominations from both parties, while some Democrats and factions urge him to run. A Pathfinder quote recalls his remark that he is a Republican, leaving the matter unsettled.
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Eisenhower
Columbia University
Truman
Pathfinder
General Eisenhower
None Should Be Allowed To Block Our Defense
Government workers at Oak Ridge Tennessee have voted to strike amid a labor dispute. The piece argues against strikes in government operations and stresses securing the nation and the atom bomb as vital defense, urging unity and restraint from unions across occupations.
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Oak Ridge, Tenn
Atomic Laboratory
Tts
Editorial Comment A Matter of Morals
The 175th infantry regiment seized seven tons of Hohenzollern state silver as war booty in Germany and the army debates whether it should be returned. The silver, in a Berlin museum since WWI, faces conflict with Hague rules on cultural objects. The piece argues ownership mirrors that of German art and urges returning the silver to its rightful owners.
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Hohenzollern
Germany
Department of the Army
Berlin
Chicago Daily Tribune
The Silent House Poem Echoes a Distant Return
In Elford's Atlantic Monthly piece the old clock remains mute as a clock and a looking glass recount a past thunder of voices. A mouse moves through a silent hall while the gun and clock wait and the garden lies uncut awaiting a promised return.
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Elford
Atlantic Monthly
Forrestal loses grip as Tucker probe widens
Washington column notes James V. Forrestal's waning leverage with Truman and Congress. It details his clash with Air Secretary Stuart Symington over the 70 group air force, plus legal and financial pressures on automaker Preston Tucker, including War Assets Administration actions, Tucker's stock sales, and investigations by the Justice Department and SEC. The piece also mentions Taft campaign pins and the Freedom Train plan and notes Argentina's crisis and Senator Harlan Bushfield's health.
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Washington
James V. Forrestal
White House
Congress
Truman
Forrestal
Harry Truman
Harry
Secretary of Defense
United Nations
Palestine
Stuart Syming
Preston Tucker
Tucker
War Assets
Jess Larson
Cleveland
War Assets Administration
Republic Steel
Ohio
Plancor
Justice Department
Securities and Exchange Commission
Sen. Ferguson
Chicago
House
Rizley
Oklahoma
Ferguson
Tucker and
Republic Ees Republic
Bob Taft
William Howard Taft
George Bender
Alf Landon
Taft
Philadelphia
Air Force
Mitchell Field
New York
Oregon
Argentina
GOP
Harlan Bushfield
South Dakota
Naval Hospital
Hollywood Stars and Studio Buzz Wrap in Europe Tour
Sheilah Graham reports Margaret OBrien plans a yearly Vio l et project with L B Mayer as she grows up in public. OBrien will attend high school and college, with a first screen kiss and romance likely before teaming with Peter Lawford. Red Skelton as a wrestler and Errol Flynn wants more freedom amid studio chatter. Lana Turner, Bob Topping and Peggy Ryan’s father accompany them in Europe as Ann Blyth tackles Wildfire with a perilous horse forest-fire sequence.
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Hollywood
Margaret O’brien
Maggie
Europe
L. B. Mayer
Violet
Metro
Miss O’brien
Peter Lawford
Red Skelton
George
John Mcarthand
Matt Weinstock
Matt
Ann Blyth
Mr. Peabody and
Maggie O'Brien Plans Films For Adolescence
Hollywood gossip lists Maggie O'Brien planning future adolescence themed films. Melvyn Douglas eyes new scenes and a Mexico project. Victor Mature pursues a meatball business in Oakland.
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Maggie O’brien
Melvyn Douglas
Mexico
Melvyn
Victor
Oakland
Howard da Silva
Howard
Jazz Deserves Respect Says Orchestra Leader at Commodore
L. L. Stevenson reports Boyd Raeburn and his orchestra at the Commodore Century Room, arguing jazz has grown into a musical form with potential for any mood from danceable to romantic. He advocates composers and arrangers shaping fine jazz from trios to symphony-scale works and notes jazz should express a full emotional range.
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Boyd Raeburn
Not About Politics A Lighthearted Personal Pursuit
A humorous invitation to a private trip away from political talk. The speaker promises imitations lantern slides and light topics such as horticulture and how robins feed their young, a gentle escape from campaigns and polls.
Harry Gets Away From Politics In The Sticks
A fragmented column notes wandering talk on weather and politics, with snippets about radio, television figures, and cultural commentary. It mentions Vinegar Joe Stilwell papers, Jack Pearl returning to radio, and a Washington book routine with Harold Ickes events. It ends with a humorous line about a cow in a furniture store.
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Harry
The
Sticks
Washington
Vinegar Joe Stilwell
Jack Pearl
Charles Denny
NBC
Voice of America
Bing Crosby
Harold Ickes
Burns
Farley
Sunny
Harry Hopkins
Bate
Garner
Ack
Cordell
White House
Harold
Diamond Dreams and Deceit in a Vaudeville Romance
In a Lindy’s coffeehouse reminiscence, Broadway jeweler Joe Evans recounts the entwined tale of Ernie Bradley, a small-time hoofer, and Angela the waitress. Their romance, diamonds bought and sold, a split partnership, a busted-nose boyfriend, and a track troubadour hiatus reveal a life built on show business, payoffs, and fragile trust.
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Lindy’s
Joe Evans
Ernie Bradley
Palace Theater
Angela
Sandusky
Ernie
Warner Brothers
Chicago
Long Island
Joe
Sucker
Telegraph remembers local deeds from five decades ago
A blast from the past notes W. J. Updike of Interstate Electric had a home phone, a Bland farmer sold two bear cubs to town officials for 30 dollars, James H. Prince's murder sentence was commuted, Graham cast 100 ballots, moonshine stills were seized in Horsepen Cove, and Dr. C T St Clair traveled to Chicago for a medical convention.
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W. J. Updike
Interstate Electric Company
Bland County
George Whitworth
James Godfrey
James H. Prince
Russell County
Swanson
Virginia
Graham
Horsepen Cove
Tazewell County
C. T. St. Clair
Chicago
American Medical Association
Lions elect Gilmore West Virginia district governor
Two decades ago Otis L. Gilmore of Huntington was chosen district governor of the West Virginia Lions at a two day convention closing. Roy Thompson aged 20 of Falls Mills died from burns after trying to ignite a boiler with gasoline. Ten years ago Benjamin F. Fairless of United States Steel visited local coal mines. George Richardson Jr. Bluefield attorney gave Hampden-Sydney College's commencem ent address.
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Otis L. Gilmore
Huntington
West Virginia Lions
Roy Thompson
Falls Mills
Benjamin F. Fairless
United States Steel Tron
George Richardson, Jr
Bluefie
Hampden-Sydney College
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