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Vote Ye Por Airport Bonds
A short civic note urges readers to support bonds for an airport project. It emphasizes community improvement and urges voting yes to finance future aviation facilities. The item frames the measure as beneficial to growth and local opportunity.
Roanoke Race for Natural Gas Sparks Public Debate
The Roanoke Gas directors urge gas via a 35 mile pipeline from Roanoke to Columbia Gas lines as surveys show overwhelming local demand. Bluefield seeks gas access with West Virginia supply expanding, while state and national politics push for voter registration and the August primaries. The piece urges support for airport bonds.
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Columbia Gas and Electric Company
Roanoke Gas Company
Bluefield
Princeton
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Atlantic Seaboard
Washington, D. C
Ohio
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West Virginia
Truman
Trend Toward Sound Government in Upcoming Elections
The season for primaries and nominating conventions is four months from the off-year elections set for November 5. Republicans gain in primaries signal possible control shifts in the house and senate, with conservative Democrats defeating ultra New Deal incumbents. Observers note near parity between parties and potential coalitions shaping legislative outlook.
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Open eyes and bread vote for trusted leaders
The piece condemns OPA price controls and wage policy as ruinous to industry and labor. It argues production costs must govern pricing, cites political risks, and urges readers to register and vote on November 5 for capable representatives, while supporting airport bonds as a step toward lasting peace.
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Editorial Comment Home of the Free
Wheat growers face a 15 day deadline to sell half their delivered wheat or face a 10000 dollar fine and a year in jail. Elevator operators must pass half of purchases to the Commodity Credit Corporation for overseas shipment. Farmers resist, but storage limits and heavy crops push compliance amid New Deal rhetoric.
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Commodity Credit Corporation
America
Tobey Shifts On Price Controls To Aid OPA
New Hampshire Senator Charles W. Tobey broke a deadlock by voting to retain meat, poultry, and dairy price ceilings and back the de control board in the OPA extension vote. The decision came as Radcliffe’s last minute no vote stunned conferees, ending with Tobey joining Democrats to push the compromise forward despite Republican opposition.
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Eeen Tobey
George L Ree
New Hampshire
Charles W. Tobey
OPA
Tobey
Radcliffe
Maryland
House
William B. Barry
New York
Barry
Robert Taft
Ohio
Eugene Millikin
Colorado
Barkley
Kentucky
Taft
California
William F. Knowland
The
Golden Gate
Nebraska
Wherry
Trumah
Millikin
Helga Faces Loss and Change After War in Berlin
Helga, a former mistress of a Silesian estate, now lives in a single room in Berlin. A Russian prisoner altered her husband into a communist, making their marriage unworkable. She recalls her prewar life, her father’s guidance, and a household where cognac defined daily routines.
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Silesia
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Wife of German landowner clings to hope in Berlin
Helga, fearing Soviet reprisals near Berlin, fled with her mother and child. She recalls wine to cope, worries about neighbors slain by Russians, and rejects her husband’s communist letters from Stalingrad as she supports herself with home duties.
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Berlin
Mrs Pred Washington Kavanaugh a New York opera figure
Mrs Kavanaugh a longtime Met opening figure and Society woman, active in charity and social life. Born in Virginia after the Civil War, she lives on East Sixty second Street with a summer home at Spring Lake. Her husband, a retired cotton converter, is 81. She hosts visiting notables at the Colony and supports community causes amid a long public photographic presence.
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Metropolitan Opera
Colony
Spring Lake
Mr. Kavanaugh
Gracious Lady Mrs Kavanaugh Charms Socialites At Luncheon
Reporter details Mrs Kavanaugh’s home and hat while noting a private elevator and a blue-eyed butler. She recalls wartime letters from servicemen including a Tokio autograph and a small $5 bill. Guests at luncheon include Amy Vanderbilt and Mrs Warner. the impression is of a charming hostess.
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Kavanaugh
Duchess of Windsor
Life Among the Bums and a Banker's Fate
A chaotic city desk fumbles crime news and headlines as LaGuardia bristles at empty leads. The editor mocks sensational puns while staff chase a bank extortion case and a reported banker shooting that proves unfounded.
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Erickson Bess
Fiorella Laguardia Edits A Newspaper Fiorella Laguardia Edits A Newspaper
The fragment appears to reflect internal newsroom chatter about editing and verification. It mentions LaGuardia, print decisions, a dismissed report, and pressure to publish conflicting items amid unclear context.
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O'Connor Wants Change of Pace in Films with Peggy Ryan
Hollywood gossip notes Don O'Connor telling Universal he prefers not to work with Peggy Ryan again. He seeks a new pace and partner in future films, while other bits cover car mix-ups, deskroom banter, and celebs like Van Johnson, Katharine Hepburn, and Loretta Young in light anecdotes.
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Don
van Johnson
Katherine Hepburn
Mgether
Metro
Katie
Van
Helmut Dantine
Europe
Mark Clark
Hitler
Loretta
Congress
Johnston
Roy Rogers
David
Nick
the Bey
Bill
Marines
Adele Mara
Republic
Cuba
Vincent
Forever Amber
Celeste Holm
Costa Rica
Glenn Ford
Gilda
Rita Hayworth
Eleanor Powell
Glenn
McCallister
Lon
Bette Davis
William Grant
Sherry
Vodak
Historical notes from daily telegraph on 50 to 40 years past
The report lists railway ticket sales for a Confederate Veterans Reunion in Richmond, family visits to Burke’s Garden, West Virginia National Guard orders to Camp Kanawha, release and repatriation of American prisoners from Carrizal, sale of Williamson Electric to Appalachian Electric Power, Hadley Scott becoming Lions Club president, and social visits in Hot Springs Virginia with Miss Anne Stannard visiting Miss Bankers.
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Camp Kanawha
Carrizoe
Williamson Electric Company
Victor Emanuel Company of
New York
Appalachian Electric Power
Hadley Scott
Lions Club
Senator claims Draja Mikhailovich on trial in Belgrade
The record notes Draja Mikhailovich went on trial for treason in Belgrade during the war era. He was one of the few enemy generals to observe warfare rules and treat captured American aviators decently, earning him unusual friendship with America that seemed likely to bring consequences.
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