Zechariah Verse Cited on Sin and Judgment
The short excerpt cites Zechariah 7 12 warning of wrath from the Lord for sins. It references prophetic messages and the guilt of all people in a condemnatory tone.
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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1943
Page
5
State police told to act only on written complaints in vice crackdown
WV newspapers report an order barring action against slot machines gambling numbers and prostitution unless a written complaint from the mayor or county prosecutor exists. Some editors call the directive absurd, warning it could weaken law enforcement, with officials debating its legitimacy and public safety duties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Virginia
Department of Public Safety
Saluting the Flag and the Supreme Court Conflict
An editorial reflects on the Supreme Court overturning its flag salute ruling and urges conformity to saluting the flag. It argues the flag should be honored despite changes in law and emphasizes patriotism over religious fervor in the debate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Supreme Court
Supreme Court
Sign or Veto Looms as Roosevelt Answers Anti-Strike Bill
National debate swirls around the new defense plant measure passed by Congress and awaiting President Roosevelt's decision. The law requires 30 days notice and a worker vote before striking at government defense plants, aiming to protect labor rights under Wagner Act and related statutes while preserving War Labor Board functions. Opposition argues misinformation and scope disputes surround the bill’s provisions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roosevelt
Congress
United States
War Labor Board
Union Officials Seek Financial Disclosure Bill
The text notes union officials must file detailed financial statements of dues income and expenditures, like other organizations. Protests to the president aim to block the bill. passage would make it law, veto would send it back to Congress with a two thirds threshold. The vote tally shown was 219 for, 130 against, 81 not voting, suggesting insufficient support to override a presidential veto.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A.F.L
C.so
Congress
Pity The Man Who Wears The Hairy Shirt
A wartime essay argues the food director and price controller bear a vast, thankless task feeding 135 million Americans and assisting allies. It notes public criticism is inevitable as officials manage distribution, rationing, and prices under a tense national effort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congress
Freezing Nerve Fragments for Grafts Featured by Your Life
Your Life magazine notes a reported method to freeze nerve fragments dehydrate store and later thaw for grafting. The article suggests medical potential and hints at applying the technique to withheld tax payments described as a compromise bill, now seen as straight obligations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Life Magazine
Hands Off the Red Cross Editorial Stance
The World-Telegram argues unionizing Red Cross staff risks tainting the symbol of mercy. It warns against left wing backed efforts by the CIO Social Service Employees and urges Red Cross loyalty over hours wages and conditions. It calls on labor leaders to keep hands off the Red Cross.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Army
Navy
CIO Social Service Employees
World-Telegram
American Red Cross
Red Cross
Social Service Employees
Washington
Thoughts For Meditation In the Cemetery
A reflective piece questions time’s speed and the ache of memory among tombs and graves. It asks whether living minds worry they will be remembered and if kind words endure after one rests in the grave.
Administration Uses Strong Propaganda for Food Subsidies
Washington reports the administration has launched a vigorous ad campaign to justify continuing food subsidies. It argues a better plan does not exist and cites Britain as precedent, while critics call subsidies a confession of policy failure and accuse funding through war bonds and processor payments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Ada
Treasury
Congress
Roosevelt
England
Britain
Churchill
Jesse Jones
Government subsidies and price rollbacks spark debate
The article argues that glossy promises to workers and pensioners mask a policy relying on rolling back prices rather than boosting incomes. It notes the president’s leverage to fund subsidies via Jesse Jones without immediate congressional approval and questions the economic sense of using public money to subsidize pensions without wage increases.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Treasury Tou
Congress
Jesse Jones
Subsidies and price control spark fears of a subsidized economy
The writer argues that subsidies to curb inflation may backfire by creating a subsidized economy. Wage and price supports could expand as government actions and wartime necessities push costs, with potential subsidies reaching labor, oil, coal, and major manufacturers like General Motors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ickesis
Vinson
Congress
General Motors
Senator Soaper’s Satirical Parade Of War News And Gaffes
A string of satirical quips covers Senator Soaper slicing through wartime rhetoric. The piece lampoons Berlin adjectives on billboards and a Latin American pop hitmaker confessing he never left Wilkes-Barre, then pivots to explorers and a western bigamist with five sweeties, and ends with a jab at a $75,000 post office project.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilkes-Barre
Home
Sweet Home
One Small Voice: Brief Brush With Movie Fan
A columnist recalls a young woman praising Casablanca and other films, name dropping actors such as Bogart, Bergman, Barrymore, and Travers. The piece weaves cinema memories with tangential notes on wartime politics and a few foreign events, ending with a skeptical quip about American domestic life.
Hopson Hanged in Wise County Courthouse Killings
Forty years ago today E. A. Hopson was executed by hanging at Wise courthouse for the murder of John Salyer. The same issue notes P. M. Greenough and company owing warehouse property, and mentions W. P. Hawley returning from eastern cities. Dave Fairbairn left for Chicago to establish his residence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. A. Hopson
Wise
John Salyer
P. M. Greenough and Company
W. P. Hawley
Dave Fairbairn
Chicago
Ill
Lights of New York Just Jottings of a Gadabout in Manhattan
Light notes from L. L. Stevenson describe an evening in Manhattan visiting the Stork Club and Cafe Society Downtown. Guests include Bing Crosby Billy Burke Mortimer Downey Molly Vanderbilt Milton Berle Jack Haley and Pearl Primus with Kenneth Spencer Georgia Gibbs Frankie Newton Pete Johnson and Albert Ammons performing boogie woogie and other acts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gadabout
Stork Club
Sherman Billingsley
Sonny Kendis
May
Bing Crosby
Billy Burke
Morter Downey
Molly Vanderbilt
Milton Berle
Jack Haley
Cafe Society
Pearl Primus
Trinidad
New York
Hunter High School
Hunter College
West Indies
Kenneth Spencer
Georgia Gibbs
Miss Gibbs
Frankie Newton
Pete Johnson
Albert Ammons
Johnson and
Ammons
Keys
Local Notes and Historical Snippets From Pon totoc and Bluefield
The Virginian railway planned to enlarge Minnie Hall Knox of Pontiac Miss and W Terry Burton was married at Pontotoc Dr B Curtis Miller a Philadelphia surgeon arrived to begin his practice here Twenty years ago today Bluefield voters approved nearly a million dollars for city improvements H M Tanner was appointed bankruptcy referee for this district Mrs William Stuart visiting Mr and Mrs William Lee
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Virginian Railway
Minnie Hall Knox
Pontotoc
Miss
W. Terry Burton
B. Curtis Miller
Philadelphia
Bluefield
H. M. Tanner
William Stuart
William Lee
Local drownings and deaths reported in Virginia notices
Mrs Henry Blankenship and Dan Blankenship drowned in the Lewis river near Grundy Virginia. Dr J B Eades died at St Luke s hospital. Mrs H L Phiegar died at her home in Barre Virginia. She was a sister in law to George S Strader of Bluefield.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Blankenship
Dan Blankenship
Lewis River
Grundy
J. B. Eades
St. Luke's Hospital
H. L. Phiegar
Barre
George 8
New Memosphere Life Is Subject Grand Book Review
John Selby reviews Bertha Damon’s A Sense of Humus set in New Hampshire. The memoir-like work centers on Mrs Damon and Samuel the hired man, with Uncle John and a Ford truck as colorful characters. Salty outdoors humor drives the narrative despite a provocative title.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Selby
Bertha Damon
Mrs. Damon
Samuel
John
Social headlines mix satire and statistics in brief notes
The item glosses social quirks with playful phrases about pets rationing, rising prices, and longevity trends. It hints at public attitudes by mentioning a dog, Wiener rationing, doubling of centenarians among women, and a line about talking oneself to death.
Censor Lets Through Humorous Military Letter Line
A Hancock county bank overseas letter slipped past censor, containing a quip about longing for home. The note read I am in the land where Christ was born and I wish to Christ I was in the land where I was born. The censor admitted it was too good to delete.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Army
Christ
Greenfield
Ind
Daily Reporter
The Crackdown
An editorial argues that wartime economic tensions expose democracy’s limits. It notes miner wage furor and leadership rifts as France endures occupation, warning that liberty can hinder decisive action. A dictatorship would crack down, but democracy’s value rests on balancing liberty with order.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
de Gaulle
Giraud
James Davies
Films Purchase Lots Of Stories To Be Shelved
Hollywood holds millions in stories not filmed as rights, scripts, and production hurdles stall projects. Examples include The Yearling at MGM, Four From Coventry at Paramount, John Paul Jones at Warner, and It Can t Happen Here delaying amid rising fascism. Circumstances and politics repeatedly render works obsolete or unfilmable.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hollywood
MGM
Spencer Tracy
Florida
Coventry
Clare
Paramount
Madeleine Carroll
Miss Carroll
John Paul Jones
Warners
Cagney
England
Musa Dagh
Franz Werfe
Africa
Mark Clark
State Department
de Gaulle
Sinclair Lewis
Kaufman and
Hart
Kin of Beckley Rum Store Manager Face Contempt Count
Raleigh county criminal court judge Clay Crouse ordered the mother in law and wife of Beckley liquor store acting manager to show cause why they should not be held in contempt for allegedly harassing a grand juror. The women allegedly telephoned protest to the indictment of former manager Paul Gilmore and clerk John Sikora for violating the state alcohol control act.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beckley
W. Va
Raleigh County Criminal Court
Clay
Crouse
Howard Ritz
O. C. Flint
C. C. Palmer
Paul Gilmore
John Sikora
Gilmore
Sikora
Farmer
Ritz
Tire loss sparks idle flames in front of Packard
Bob Hearn faced a tiresome setback when a trash fire in front of his 1938 Packard on Bluefield avenue burned only a tire. Firemen from Central station responded, and Hearn quipped replacing the tire would be simpler than swapping the motor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bob Hearn
Hearn
Packard
Kroger
Bluefield Avenue
Central Station
Capital Airport Project Discussed in Charleston Talk
Senator Kilgore announced a discussion with Civil Aeronautics Administration and Army Air Forces representatives about the Charleston West Virginia airport project. He labeled the meeting as exploratory with a possible delay for another discussion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Kilgore
W. Va
West Virginia
Civil Aeronautics Administration
Army Air Forces
Charleston, W. Va
Delater
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the Rats
Zechariah
Fossiar
New York World-Telegram
Paul Mallon
Senator Soaper
Busch Circus
Hitler Europe
Berlin
Guadalcanal
Attu
South Pole
Horatius
By John Kieran
Shakespeare
Norma Shearer
John Barrymore
Edna May Oliver
Basil Rathbone
Leslie Howard
London
Elisabeth Bergner
Casablanca
Humphrey Bogart
Ingrid Bergman
Winston Churchill
Hitler
Meeeerey Bogart
Henry Travers
Cedric Hardwick
Air Force
James Brown
Tex
Harry Carey
George Tobias
Cary Grant
Gary Cooper
Lou Gehrig
Yankees
Roland Young
Fred Allen
Fred
Anna Neagle
Edith Cavell
Cavell
Hedy Lamarr
Deponent
Finland
U.S
U. S
Japan
Slovakia
Daily Telegraph
Lights OF
Manhattan
L. L. Stevenson
By Robbin Coons
Beckley Rum
Capital
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