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Newspaper
Charleston Gazette
Location
Charleston, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1944
Page
3
The Elk Kanawha Post No. 7 American Legion will meet at headquarters at Fayette street and Pennsylvania avenue tonight to elect delegates to the district convention at Dunbar on June 25. The meeting will start at 8 pm.
Chinese troops seize part of Lungling stronghold in Yunnan and advance toward Tengchung as they cut the Lungling Tengchung road link. They recapture points near Lungling and press attacks on Chenanchieh and Siangta. The effort aims to reopen the Burma road as part of the Salween river offensive and north Burma campaign.
Trinity Lutheran church will host a reception at 8 p m to greet new members received this year. A W Holz president will welcome the group and Alden R Shaw will respond. Music by the junior choir directed by Mrs A W Holt and others.
An advertisement extols Miner's Friend with an endorsing list from residents across towns like CALLOWAY GLEN JEAN MULLENS RALEIGH SCARBRO SKELTON SPRAGUE TAMBOY WHIPPLE WICKHAM. It claims relief from constipation and related symptoms and notes the laxative aid helps prevent colds. The piece urges trying the product and purchasing through drug stores or direct mail.
Washington notes Bowles tied the Bankhead cotton price amendment to inflation threats, asserting it would wreck stabilization and raise clothing costs for families. Senator Eastland countered that proper administration could save hundreds of millions, while Bowles warned further easing would boost black markets and hurt the public.
In Martinsburg June 8 an Army hospital project valued at 5 million dollars will be formally turned over to the medical staff. John J. Cornwell of Romney and Baltimore will dedicate the 2000 bed facility in the name of Newton D. Baker with his widow as guest. Maj. Gen Norman Kirk and Maj. Gen James L. Collins will speak before about 2000 attendees.
Thirteen white registrants from Cabin Creek county selectives board No 4 were sent to Ft Thomas Ky for induction. The group included Steve Sterckman Howard Edward Hayes John Edwin Kraft Freer Adams Henry Euell Oakes Sherman Franklin Gould Charles F Basham Fred Benton Martin Walter T Rees Lloyd James Atkinson William Rogers Perry John Floyd Elkins and Frank Calvert Massey. None had prior transfers to or from other boards, a notable fact for its size.
The W. G. Hubbard property at Broad and Washington Streets is leased to Charleston General Hospital for use as a nurses home. Furniture is moving in for 28 senior nurses training students to occupy the quarters. Also listed are marriage applications for Howard Andrew Marion and Ruth Lita Morris of Charleston, and William D. Knox of Logan with Nelle Venderson Mounts of Charleston. Some Iceland residents heat homes with hot water from geysers.
A wartime dispatch aboard an LST returning from the Normandy coast describes over 50 wounded sailors and soldiers treated in the wardroom improvised operating space. Doctors and naval medics attended injuries as mortar and 88mm fire forced evacuations, with vivid accounts from sergeants lieutenants and privates about beach obstacles, mining, and fierce shelling.
Contest winners in Camp Freedom for Catholic Children’s essay contest at Four-H grounds near Dunbar were named by a judge panel. Winners Donna Sue Aigner Winona Duncan Norman Vallandingham Robert Gallagher Dolores Hard and Robert Curry earn a week at the camp. Enrollment aims for 100 boys. non campers report Monday at Charleston Catholic high school. Each camper must bring one Blue and one Red stamp per week.
Logan four of five taxi firms halt operations until the next ration period after 22 cars shut down due to gasoline shortages. Ratliff of OO Cab Co. said trips to Charleston failed to secure extra rations and criticized the Office of Defense Transportation for lack of guidance. He cited broken speedometers and scarce parts hindering repairs while the Public Service Commission requires service.
Commercial operators and war agencies tasked with timber production convene at a sawmill school in Webster county at Holly River state park. Ralph O. Smort, acting supervisor of the West Virginia Timber Production War project, directs the meeting with War Production Board log and lumber division reps and other agencies in attendance.
H Gordon of social services meets state officials to attend a public welfare conference in the southeastern region. Two division heads of the state department of public assistance G A Lester and a statistician will join. Local workers travel from 11 southern states for a program in Columbia from June 15 to 18. Leonard will speak on welfare problems.
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