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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1945
Page
6
The Bluefield Daily Telegraph notes editor Hugh Ike Shott with editorial operations and advertising contact details. The item lists telephone and agency representation for advertisements.
Dr Edwin C Wade will continue as Bluefield College president for one more year after the board urged him to stay during postwar planning. He has led the junior college through wartime enrollment and finances, and trustees hope he remains beyond 1945 46 to oversee four year expansion and debt clearance.
The British Gallop polls a Labour majority in July elections while London's financial district bets seven to four for Conservatives. Shifts in population and low youth turnout complicate forecasts. Churchill's stature and war aims could push Conservative gains, affecting England's economic path and East-West alignments.
American headquarters report the killing of a private soldier in Germany garroted by Nazi terrorists. The incident prompts officers to warn troops to avoid lone travel, with pledges of swift punishment for attackers and a call for thorough vigilance.
The Virginia delegation faces a single senator vote for the United Nations charter as Senator Glass may be incapacitated leaving only one vote in the senate. The piece warns of minority obstruction led by Burton Wheeler and urges Glass to resign for Virginia to have full influence, noting the world peace stake and the service of over a million American lives.
The speaker reflects on peaceful June days and a life at sea guided by an unseen hand. A trusted bard or charm steadies the voyage along life’s route, with buoy bells and music marking the journey. Poem by Alice Le Vern Beardsley.
The column describes a Senate subcommittee fight led by Chairman Murray with Dewey Anderson as counsel, Ellender’s clashes, and protests over staff use from executive agencies. It also recounts Millard Tydings’ Manila visit fallout and MacArthur’s Luzon travel restrictions, ending with Tydings’ sharp rebuke of the columnist.
A fragment details Allied interrogation of German figures after WWII. It notes MAFTA identity testing, Goering cross examination on air power, Gesen and inner circle ties, Brigadier Flury on poisons and Green Ring gas, Bayerlein’s surrender and praised battlefield record, including his remark about facing the Sherman in a notable engagement.
In desert terrain visibility is high and tanks decide battles. Bayerlein notes Rommel’s doctrine of hitting when opponents cannot respond, by smashing flanks before they can bring guns to bear. At Alamein British tanks carried short barrels 50 and 75 mm, while German tanks were often destroyed at mid to long range. The Sherman’s superiority reemerged in the Battle of Acheila Sidi Bou Zid as the 21st Panzer Division was outmaneuvered by the more experienced foe.
A nostalgic tour along Fourth Avenue and nearby landmarks recalls old bookstalls on a church site, St Marks in the Bowery, Tammany Hall’s Fourteenth Street site, and Peter Stuyvesant’s farm. The piece notes peddlers, Union Square clothing, new sidewalk cafes, and Times Square symbols like Father Duffy’s statue wreaths while referencing Madison Square and O. Henry era lore.
Observers gather at the Playhouse stage door to interview Laurette Taylor while other city scenes unfold. A mayoral lookalike, job as a tavern porter, students heading to summer break, and a quick cigarette stop by a policeman highlight a bustling midtown panorama. The loss of the Broadway convention delegates and the old Ninth Avenue elevated line frame changes in the city streets. Stores replace pushcarts as wartime funds reshuffle plans for paving and transit.
A playful dialogue features George awaiting orange juice and Anastasia, a housewife, amid a satirical quarrel about crops and ideals. The passage hints at economic strain in a country with vast harvests and questions about freedom and compromise.
Satirical column mocks wartime controls and profiteering while lampooning officials and public figures. It questions orange pricing, OPA enforcement, and suspect business practices, then pivots to social satire about Eisenhower, giants, and court decisions.
Hollywood figures discuss marriage, children, and wartime service as Olivia De Havilland and others write from the South Pacific. Lore about Lauren Bacall, Greer Garson, and Tyrone Power frames a cinema world affected by enlistment and the push to release films featuring popular stars.
Daily Telegraph notes events from forty and thirty years ago. It recalls a gasoline explosion at the White Wan Laundry on Raleigh Street injuring J. F. Linn and Jack Sneed, a bookkeeper appointment for Jane Mitchell, and assignments involving Captain Audareen and the Norfolk and Western bridge force. It also mentions past visits by Dr. Gose H. Zimmerman and W. H. Werth, a Kiwanis ladies night address by Judge I. C. Herndon, and assorted local movements including donkey baseball and Mercantile Agency taking over Bluefield Business Men's Association collections effective July.
The article notes it is pleasing that we will be spared autobio graphs from cells or St Helena journals amid yellow journalism and sensational interviews, reflecting a Christian Science Monitor stance on sensational media.
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