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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1945
Page
5
Advertising representative shown as The Kate Agency. Telephones and layout remarks appear in the fragment of a public notice column from the Bluefield Daily Telegraph.
In a local appeal, residents urge the Greater Bluefield area to bid for a Veterans Administration hospital. They cite advantages like climate, water, transport, and health facilities, noting many from Mercer and adjacent counties would benefit and urging a campaign during the current survey period.
A Washington university staff estimates World War II expenses to exceed 1.03 trillion dollars. President Paul F Douglass says expenditures since 1934 surpass 500 dollars per world inhabitant, highlighting the vast economic toll beyond human loss.
Observers label the Levant crisis as serious as France under De Gaulle clings to special treaty rights in Syria and Lebanon. The Arab League demands immediate French troop withdrawal or risk force, while Britain and the United States insist on avoiding a new global conflict and preserving war efforts against Japan.
Editorial: Messrs Fixit push a Vinson plan to tax profits from speculative securities and real estate, tighten credit, and extend holding periods. Authors warn longer restraints threaten individual rights and liken government control to slavery.
A reflective poem portrays a narrator seeking vanished hours and a distant beloved. The desolate white road, sleeping flowers, and a still sea set a melancholic mood as memories brush by like fragile shells of light and music. The speaker yearns for a mystical union with the lost hours.
The war food administration weighs freezing storage eggs as black market activity expands from Delaware Maryland to the East and West coasts. J Edgar Hoover probes the poultry trade with officials including Clifford Shedd and Gordon Sprague clashing over authority. Authorities warn hundreds of thousands of private stored eggs may be seized to meet civilian needs.
The article notes 20000 to 50000 Germans, many arriving after the war began, still in Spain. Most openly travel while diplomats and officials stay hidden. Passports were extended, urging compliance with Spanish rules and discretion as allied forces dismantle or track hidden assets.
German seamen and experts remain in Spain after the surrender, aided by officers and technicians in private firms serving Spanish buyers. Many Germans live in summer homes despite outward cash support staying intact, while a number of anti-Nazi Germans are held in concentration camps as undesirables. Spanish officials see these Germans as unwelcome guests akin to Laval, hoping they depart soon.
A collection of brief, era flavored anecdotes from Bluefield touches on a broken glasses repair at Ray Barnett’s American Optical, poor dining on the N and W dining car, a blunt joke about keeping a road timetable, scarce cigarettes and meals, a delayed $10 000 war risk policy for Sgt Junior Urrier’s heir, election day mischief with nylon stockings ads, and a joke about presidential age and residency.
Notice recalls the death of Harry Shannon Sr. 75, longtime owner of the Shannon Players, a touring troupe seen in the region. He died at home in Larue Ohio after decades of theater work. The piece mixes fond boyhood memories and light notes on public figures and jokes.
A wartime hero Patton rides in reverse along Paul Revere inspired pathways. Spectators cheer as he passes towns like Lexington and Medford, with a radio narrator remarking on the homage and a scrapper hat lighting up the river of crowds.
Judge Jonah J. Goldstein is named the Republican candidate in New York challenging William O Dwyer. The piece blends political satire and wartime era sentiments with references to German and Japanese views and notes a shift in Saratoga racing plans by the New York State Racing Commission under Governor Dewey.
The author notes a secret meeting between Hoover and Truman to discuss who should handle European food aid, with UNRRA controlling funds and logistics. The piece critiques domestic food shortages and the denial of real improvement in local diets, highlighting scarce meat and bologna at stores.
Daily Telegraph notes from Bluefield and region include D M Easley elected worshipful master of Bluefield lodge number 88 A F and A M in 1890, J Elliott Hall touring for business, Dr L H Clark attending Norfolk medical meeting, Mrs N Effron installing as Bluefield chapter president, and Emma Sue Phelps winning first prize in housing admin contests.
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