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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1943
Page
1
A fragmented religious quotation references Amos 5 8 praising the maker of the seven stars and Orion with a call to worship God attributed to Burns. The fragmentary text includes a reverent line urging worship and a brief attribution to Burns.
Sunday mass meetings across coal regions reported miners deciding to return to work amid bitterness toward the WLB president Van Bittner and anti-strike pill supporters. Dealers of coal bosses faced readjustment as four month cooling period loomed and government stance on contracts remained noncommittal.
A critique of Roosevelt era food and price controls argues mis management by Leon Henderson and Prentis Brown, noting congressional influence and executive directives. It cites a farmer’s hogs cut to 200 from 300 and a corn allocation policy as evidence of political tinkering and unintended consequences across agriculture and coal.
The article argues the Nazi high command will not launch a grand summer offensive against the Soviet Union due to the enormous military resources required and Russia’s vast size. It suggests a gamble with possible strategic risks in the west or south if forces are diverted, and cites reliance on expert military judgment over personal impulse by Hitler.
The piece questions the United States duty in shaping postwar peace and funding Europe, noting critics who fear global policing and aid. It cites a Washington grocer fined for tossing eggs over a receipt dispute and Congressman Rankin calling rioters “under privileged” in a debate over social gains.
Editorial argues John L Lewis harmed the war effort more than he harmed organized labor. It warns that miners long disruption could sour soldiers and families, urging discipline and stern labor legislation as soldiers return home. It contends Lewis promotes harsher labor laws than the anti strike bill.
An informal GOP poll of 180 House members shows Governor Thomas E. Dewey of New York as the man best qualified for the 1944 Republican presidential nomination. The results place Dewey ahead of MacArthur Bricker Willkie Taft Martin Stassen Hoover Warren Vandenburg Green Lodge Brooks McNary Farley Byrd Wadsworth and others.
Harold Trowbridge Pulsifer writes in the Washington Post that beauty, labor, and nation building deserve enduring honor. He urges readers to focus on a consuming truth illuminated by the blood of youth as society eyes a future of peace and laughter.
Dr. Clyde Fisher an astronomy lecturer at the Hayden Planetarium joins a small party to Randalls Island to watch Gunder Hage of Sweden run his first American track race. The group includes Forrest Izard of Nelson Rockefeller’s Inter-American affairs unit and amateur observers from the medical student crowd.
A wartime poem riffs on John L Lewis and big chief rhetoric, imagining him in the army with orders, duties, and a frugal postwar routine. It parodies a wartime draft and presidential plan to coal miners, plus light notes on a new radio device and a flatcar postwar home.
A collection of witty pseudo headlines and quips referencing war, politics, and daily life. Observations touch on laundry in Africa for speed, Luftwaffe misreads, cartoonists on Mussolini, mistaken marriages, and shifting war loyalties with a tongue in cheek tone.
A New York World Telegram comparison calls Frances Perkins a female Rip Van Winkle for sleeping through time in the labor department. It notes a May spike in strikes despite the no strike pledge and cites her tenure as secretary of labor compared to Rip Van Winkle's 20 year slumber.
Entries note W. J. Hepford opening an office in State Bark building for hay and grain carload sales. J. H. Hoge returned from Roanoke Virginia. Capt. J. H. Griffin visited Montreal Virginia.
Charles W. Bowers of Princeton was killed when he fell under the wheels of his locomotive on the Guyan division of the Virginian railroad. Paul Fletcher returned to his home at Jersey City after a visit with Dudley Kutcherson. W. D. Ord of Alexandria Virginia president of the Empire Coal and Coke company at Landgraff was visiting here.
John Selby reviews Lewis Sowden The Union of South Africa, praising it as a clear objective history of South Africa’s background and current state. The author argues for Jan Smuts as a stabilizing, unifying leader amid Boer British tensions and Nazi agitation. The critique lauds sober, well crafted prose.
The theory argues for more harvest aid to farmers with fine crops to prevent distress and a public complaint. The text suggests improving relief to avoid farmers' protests over harvest burdens.
A collage of city scenes on Sixth Avenue and Fifth Avenue shows sudden close calls with a little girl nearly hit by a bus, an agile sailor saving her, and pedestrians amid bare parking lots and shop windows. Vivid vignettes capture contrasts from veterans medals to straw hats, cyclists, service men, and street life.
Hollywood critics praise the finale of This Is the Army, noting a ten minute sequence that fills the screen with 500 soldiers in full uniform. The review highlights the marching snake-dance, color film with Uncle Sam and 150 flags, and emphasizes the patriotic finale as a powerful wartime entertainment.
On set with LeRoy Prinz and Sergeant Bob Sidney 44, soldiers rehearse marching as music starts and stops. The improvised stage sits low over a concrete orchestra pit forcing adjustments. Soldiers don packs, fix bayonets, and reset positions repeatedly, indistinguishable from actual army routine.
Reports reaching London claim Hitler orders moving 50 divisions from Russia to France and the Balkans. Observers warn such shifts may be propaganda to ease allies into delaying the push on Moscow.
Huntington West Virginia June 28 funeral services were held today in Charlotte North Carolina for Dr Charles Richard Nisbet 72 former supply pastor of the Huntington First Presbyterian Church until June 15 who served in Huntington from November 1.
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