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Newspaper
Charleston Gazette
Location
Charleston, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1947
Page
6
A critical op-ed denounces a new Republican rent bill as harmful to fifty million renters and 14 million dwellings. It warns of rental hikes, housing shortages, and trailer living while blaming the real estate lobby and urging voters to oust Republicans in the next election.
A publisher predicts higher fiction prices, with $3.50 novels becoming standard for lengthy works, potentially reaching $3.75 or $4.00. The shift contrasts with the old $1.59 norm, but buyers may avoid pricier new releases, letting publishers price themselves out of the market if demand wanes.
Summer brings community theater vibrant scenes in Newport News Cypheratic society with Bizet Carmen staged by local talent. An out of town tenor Don Jose. Carmen sung by a chiropractor. Escamillo a lieutenant colonel from the air force. An eighty-person chorus includes druggists, artists, nurses, teachers, and executives. Participants forget daily worries to create entertaining performances for neighbors and observers.
J M Roberts Jr analyzes the United Nations response to Britain's proposal to divide the Indian subcontinent into three dominions Pakistan Hindustan and princely states with ongoing issues of religious and racial division. He notes Pakistan's two-country reality Hindustan's divisions and the economic and political challenges of partition including debt sharing and trade. The piece warns that failure to unite could draw external powers into a Balkanized Orient.
Column discusses Maj. Gen. Leslie Groves and his dual memoir strategy. One book would reveal permissible details of atomic energy, while a second manuscript for Library of Congress, to be published decades later, would recount the full story of wartime atomic efforts. The piece highlights covert operations, shadowed scientists, and extraordinary wartime espionage surrounding the development of the bomb. It references Graves, Niels Bohr, Lise Meitner, and rumors of operatives eliminating Nazi physicists, noting the secrecy and drama of the atomic age.
Washington secret meeting in the Pentagon discussed forming an industrial corps with units in major factories. Plans included reserve cards for workers and optional training for bosses and workers to speed wartime conversion. Eisenhower and Patterson warned the atomic age demands rapid preparedness and warned a future war could strike instantly. The gathering included Edison Electric Company, National Association of Manufacturers, AFL CIO, Chamber of Commerce, Railway Labor, American Railroads, RCA, aircraft and petroleum groups, all pledging secrecy.
A fragmentary intercepted note dated June 4 19417 discusses strengthening the national guard as a step in national defense. The letter references a person named Clarence and signs Yeorge Gov Chinence W. Meadows.
A 1942 Gazette summary outlines the proposed labor bill's impact on strikes and union shops, detailing court injunctions to halt national walkouts, the outlawing of sympathy strikes, and the creation of a National Labor Relations Board. It notes voting rules, union membership issues, dues, and political contribution limits, with cautions on broad implications and enforcement.
The Gazette offers readers a Q and A column covering topics from press conference access to degree recognition, breeding card data, pigeon deterrence in public buildings, labor union history, Sybarite origin, early golf ball materials, and malaria carrying mosquitoes in the United States.
The piece contrasts early vitamin concepts with Hopkins as father of modern nutritional chemistry and notes his rats experiments. It then surveys U S city manager plans as a reform around sound administration. It cites Madison Wisconsin and Hartford Connecticut as examples and mentions Maine towns adopting the plan.
June 2 New York War Department awarded the Medal of Merit to Philip Murray president of the CIO for wartime labor services. The move sparks sharp criticism over political decorations for civilians, past favoritism under Stimson and Patterson, and concerns about draft dodger exemp tions and GI benefits.
Relief in Manhattan offers room service while furniture is moved to the sidewalk during redecorating. A family lived in a mezzanine style at a sixth avenue hotel, reflecting city life with humor and sentiment as New York faces costs and traffic frustrations.
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