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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1944
Page
10
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The article discusses the shift toward federal supervision over insurance, noting a 283 to 4 House vote to amend the Sherman and Clayton acts to exclude insurance from antitrust scope, with the Senate next. It questions federal takeover and its impact on private enterprise, unemployment, and taxation.
Margery Sharp’s Cluny Brown arrives as a lively if uneven parlor comedy. The heroine, a curious naive girl, leaves her plumber uncle and ventures into London and Devon households, sparking a string of social mishaps with a Polish writer, a baronet heir, and assorted servants.
The Republican national committee launches its radio campaign with a 15 minute broadcast featuring Governors Earl Warren Dwight Green and Raymond Baldwin. NBC and CBS carry the talks as a prelude to Dewey’s Philadelphia and Louisville openings. Other programs include Jack Benny from Noumea and various NBC CBS and MBS schedules through the night.
The article states that alleged company failures to address grievances caused the second stoppage. Negotiations to resolve the original strike grievances are halted until production resumes. The text notes the ocean is shown as 3144 per cent salt in an odd reference.
West Virginia Republicans prepare for a state campaign kickoff as Bricker’s fall campaign launch is discussed by Walter S. Hallanan. The exact network radio timing is yet to be arranged. In Morgantown Ira Rogers initiates the 1944 WVU football squad with 63 candidates and 18 all star scholastic performers.
A quiz titled Look and Learn by A. C. Gordon presents five questions and concise answers: tea as world’s favorite beverage, origin of honey moon from Mead after marriage for forty days, the possibility of a woman becoming US president, approximate lightning bolt horsepower at 428 million, and Lake Michigan as the Great Lake entirely in the US.
Principal Chinese delegates led by Dr. Wellington Koo arrived late yesterday and said they will contribute to world planning. The Chinese will meet with British and American delegates after the Russians finish their section on an International Air Council amid disputes over force and the treatment of small nations.
A fragmented column discusses U S and Allied roles in Europe, noting Nelson and Hurley in the White House, reflections on postwar governance in Germany and Japan, fascination with Paris and Arno shop life, and wartime cultural shifts including American crowds at Munich beer halls.
In France Pfc. James B. Dudley Richmond Va mocks German troops after being wounded in the ear by a sniper bandage knocked off by a Nazi in patrol He quips that enemy marksmen cannot shoot. In Norfolk a clerk in the OPA rationing board recalls a merchant seaman asking for his home address to see his wife after a week away.
The Bourgeois family endured a rough stretch in Baton Rouge with Pat Jr injured in a railroad collision, Pat Sr wounded by a motor accident, and the family burned on a cabin cruiser. All three hospitalized after the weekend incidents with Sunday quiet at home.
In Port Washington New York three year old Nan Dalsimer reached toward a tiger’s paw through a Bronx zoo cage. Her parents Mr and Mrs P T Dalsimer, watching in horror, quickly grabbed Nan and pulled her to safety. The child’s playmate appeared to be a shaggy dog larger than Nan.
A letter from a woman begged Governor Johnston to draft her abusive husband after noting his beating. The governor’s response triggered another missive from the wife describing a worse assault when her husband obtained the letter.
Russians red fish report describes troops near the Romanian capital. Cossacks and motorized infantry deployed on plains north of the city test German resistance. The 650,000 population area around Bucharest feels the pressure as Soviet forces push toward the capital.
Actress Hester Sondergaard, known for a Russian accent and linguistic studies, appears on the WLW program We Love and Learn airing weekdays at 6 15 p m E WT She is described as charming and versatile with extensive training in languages and dialects Her father is a Danish dairy expert who became a professor at the University of Minnesota During college she began her journey into acting and music
Hester has worked with a traveling Chautauqua company in summer travels and performed in Saroyan's first play My Hearts in the Highlands. Her radio debut came in Great Moments of History and she performs in multiple dialects including Dutch and Russian. She appears in We Late and Learn as Mme Advahia and enjoys tennis and swimming when not broadcasting or socializing with friends.
In a sunlit late afternoon at a quiet apartment, Matthew and Judith clash over love and aging, as Judith probes his readiness for commitment while recalling past failures. Political notes drift in from a distant briefing about Romanian front lines and Danube actions, shadowing the personal tension with war news.
The passage discusses boosting yields by observing cultural cautions in pruning fruiting bushes. After fruiting, remove all stalks that bore fruit, prune back to the base, and limit new shoots to a few to preserve vigor.
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