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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1940
Page
4
The fragment cites Luke 11 46 condemning lawyers who burden others while avoiding the load themselves and adds a line about lawmakers on opposite sides of a case acting like shears that cut a bee but not each other.
The piece warns that if Britain holds out through winter, Europe faces widespread famine driven by blockade, disrupted production, and refugee farming disruption. It notes Germany and allies suffer rationing, Russia Balkans and Western Europe struggle, and only the Western Hemisphere could supply food, blocked by Gibraltar and Suez. Hunger could trigger social upheaval and further explosions within months.
A Zurich based Christian Science Monitor correspondent reports Nazi Germany uses tin badges as wage substitutes. The system links labor honor with limited cash, enabling war funding while curbing French policies of longer hours and higher pay.
The regime redefines labor as service equal to military duty and honors workers with medals for production, culture, and motherhood while offering academics limited prestige. It depicts factory life as patriotic duty, with poetry and music fed to workers and farmers praised for sacrifice and large families.
The piece critiques U S muddling over the last decade and warns whether calls for national interest will be dismissed. It urges support for Congress’s 10 percent nonmilitary spending cut as prudent wartime finance, noting hidden debt and inflation fears amid defense spending and election talk.
Morgantown Post cautions that if vigilance slips the nation may develop a mindset that dismisses any U S opponent in coming weeks. The piece urges readers to keep this potential attitude in mind.
The article notes prejudice against blondes and redheads in store hiring. Executives say customers should focus on goods, not sales girls, reducing blondes’ and redheads’ job chances. Vocational guidance counsellors are urged to steer such applicants toward libraries or laboratories.
Poetic fragment evokes twilight and fragrance among trees. Mentions darkness, sweetness, green boughs and a sense of time and speech emerging from nature. Concludes with reference to Christian Science.
The excerpt muses that happiness comes from anonymous acts of kindness to the world, often unknown even to the giver. It compares a generous person to a light in a room, a radiating focus of good will, improving life even without proof of a formal deed.
Satirical piece blends a spoof of the Paul Revere ride with modern media jabs. It parries radio era tropes, lampooning advertising, taxes on tobacco and cards, and a magazine spoof that teases celebrity and politics with mock quotes and Braybees.
Philadelphia June 24. Efforts to merge Dewey and Taft factions proceed under a mutual intermediary with Alf Landon guiding. The plan aims to blunt Wendell Willkie by building a unified bloc before the convention ballots. Objections linger over vice presidential picks and convention procedure.
The Minnesota governor candidate rewrote a brisker speech written before the Nazi invasion of the Netherlands. He shaped a composite view from Republican leaders not running, consulting few others. Friends urged dropping serious views for Gridiron Club remarks, but he kept them, now recalled.
Stassen staged a special preview of his remarks for film news reels at 4 p m Saturday to limit delays before public theatres see the speech. Delegates and Demaree were present in the background during the staged event.
The piece discusses Republican hopes to block Roosevelt and confront Hitler, noting open mindedness at the national convention. It mentions Roosevelt possibly seeking a third term via proxy, Hoover’s strategic vote tactics, and Lawrence Richey’s role in preserving Hoover’s influence.
Experts report wild geese lack a single flock leader and instead take turns guiding the flight. Proverbs are concise statements drawn from long experience.
Fort Worth era clock recalls Prank Leach at Wytheville while Ian A. Cather visits Aladelphia and discusses Setassten matters amid unclear notes from the era.
A chaotic Hollywood roundup cites anti Nazi film projects and unsettled schedules. Names like Marjorie Rambeau Alan Hale Zanuck contracted stars and others including Bette Davis Ann Sheridan and Dietrich surface amid shifting roles and production talk.
A reflective piece describes Halliburton visiting the Taj Mahal at 4am. The narrator recalls solitary hours beside the tomb, guards nearby, and a romantic, magical scene as the moonlit marble and sacred grounds inspire awe.
Two workers settle to eat dinner and discuss a surpr ise wager about money. One mentions his missus and rhubarb in a clipped, garbled exchange attributed to New Zealand Railways.
A courtroom fragment shows a witness saying they may leave the stand and admit not being a lawyer. The dialogue includes a terse exchange with someone named Joe and a remark about Rome not being built in a day, implying delays or unfinished work.
A wartime exhortation urges calm and faith in ultimate victory. It stresses strong economy, sustained production, and massive military preparedness to deter Hitlerism and defend freedom of trade across oceans and borders. It cites immense war readiness, global reach, and reliance on force to uphold democratic values.
Twenty years ago today the Holston Epworth League conference was meeting at Grace church. Miss Virginia C. Richardson died at Marion and was buried in Walnut Grove. Census figures announced us 15,191.
Miss Marie Halil of Bluefield was awarded 10 900 in a case related to a Pullman prank. The Pullman Company faced conduct questions. Denardo died at Richlands. William a 16 year old from Tazewell was involved in a sale.
Olevio Santoro of Far Rockaway New York, a ninth grade student and junior instructor at Grand Street Settlement House, hosts a yodeling class in Manhattan. The event, sponsored by the Settlement House, will take place July 17 at East River Park and aims to teach children the art of emitting high pitched bugle-like yodels.
An unclear nightclub vignette describes a singer forgetting a costume detail and a booth operator described as a gentleman who works a hook to a frazzle. The text is garbled and lacks clear events or identifiable names.
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