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Newspaper
Charleston Gazette
Location
Charleston, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1941
Page
9
In a late December column from Charleston, the author argues for a bold national shift as war deepens. He urges expanding the armed forces to ten million, greater female labor participation, and increased food production while acknowledging shortages. The piece rejects clever liberalism and champions candor, sacrifice, and a fully committed national effort to thwart Hitler.
Merry-Go-Round notes isolationist lawmakers including Rep Ham Fist Bernard Gehrmann Emmet O Neal and Dewey Short criticizing Guam fortification. It also reports Rockefeller wartime propaganda distribution Latin America pamphlets En Guardia and Ballad of the Leatherneck Corps publicized by marine corps officials and civil defense efforts with Eleanor Pierson authoring a civilian defense handbook. Also mentions Cayey radio towers dismantled sold for scrap iron and Australian minister Casey in Washington. New York lawyers flock to Washington for the war and FDA asks drug firms about last year's business.
Firsthand accounts describe brutal dawn bombardment as Japanese planes struck battleships. Officers recount the intense anti aircraft fire, a captain mortally wounded on the bridge, and crew rushing to battle stations while fires and damaged magazines threatened devastation.
Officers at Pearl Harbor recount dramatic scenes as planes attacked, fires raged, and ships were torpedoed. The captain stayed aboard, crews battled flames, and the Arizona efforts cut lines to evacuate sailors as over 1000 wounded were treated ashore.
Owens-Illinois Glass announces a retirement program using 1.9 million dollars from 1941 earnings to provide retirees with income beyond social security. The plan, outlined in a Christmas greeting from president J. Preston Levis to Charleston plant employees, remains to be detailed and will be announced to workers soon.
Brief news blurbs recount oddities and small misfortunes across cities. A stranger paid a long owed debt at a Philadelphia butcher shop, a Indiana sheriff’s grandson used handcuffs, a San Diego engine chased a driver, and a Honolulu letter noted rain delaying laundry in Chicago.
In Richwood a man reported killed amid an attack and his son serves in the armed forces. The CIO dominates West Virginia politics, pressuring state employees into line with Gov. Neely accused of sympathy and delayed action. John W. Bosworth, once chief of the 250 man state police, says Gov. Neely told him he cannot get along with labor.
The dispute centers on Bosworth's dismissal after officials of the United Mine Workers demanded the removal of troopers who searched and confiscated firearms from Gary West Virginia pickets during the captive coal mine strike. Bosworth said his duty was enforcing law and keeping peace on John Lewis' picket lines.
Building permits issued yesterday approve two $1,000 remodeling permits for the dry cleaning plant on Virginia Street West and for the laundry at 217 49 Delaware Avenue. Kuhn Construction Co. is the contractor. Also approved are two residences valued at $5,000 each for Cassab Construction on South Street and for Thomas Brothers at Noyes Avenue with a $250 garage. Additional alterations include a $200 update to the Homestead Restaurant at 608-11 Lee Street and $20 alterations to 1718 Piedmont Road house by O L Spinks.
Gov Neely and author David Cushman Coyle will headline West Virginia University Farm and Home Week. Pro. R. 5. Marsh announced the program runs February 3 to 6 with lectures and discussions.
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