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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1944
Page
4
The Grafton Sentinel announces its weekly afternoon edition details and staff policy. It outlines subscription rates for three months and one year and describes letters to the editor with signature requirements. The page lists advertising representation in New York and Chicago offices.
Wartime coal outlook pledges ample supply for homes this winter. Industry has boosted output since Pearl Harbor while meeting civilian needs. Expected coal for domestic use tops 180 million tons this season at under ten dollars per ton, averaging about ten cents per day per person.
The guide reviews two World War II picture books U S at War edited by Tom Maloney and Margaret Bourke White s They critique the Italian campaign focus of Bourke White s book and complain the U S at War covers too many fronts with limited text while praising the photographs and editors for their strong imagery and project scope.
U S Army units report slow progress as MacArthur's 32nd division fights through the LaYte northwest sector. NBC and AP dispatches describe entrenched Japanese positions in Ormoc and a 90 mile swamp and mountain drive toward the west coast, with enemy dumps and supplies abandoned during the assault.
At the first annual Television Broadcasters Association conference in New York a merit award was given to Brig. Gen. David Sarnoff RCA for his role in television development. Other honorees included Vladimir Zworykin and WABD New York. several honorable mentions followed. Evening radio schedules featured CBS NBC and programs like Fibber McGee and Bob Hope with a front line of entertainment and commentary on wartime news and treaty discussions.
The article outlines factional struggles within the Republican Senate on leadership after the 70th Congress begins January 3, highlighting Taft and Vandenberg as potential leaders while internationalists push for Aiken or Austin. It notes bond disposal issues, postwar prosperity plans, and proposed reconversion measures including stranded workers and government unemployment.
Navy Chaplain Paul R. Hoover officiated a double proxy wedding in Jacksonville. One spouse was in the United States while the other was in the Pacific, with papers traveling around the world before the ceremony. The event was described as the first of its kind by the chaplain.
In Welch Army hospital Daytona Beach Florida worn and frayed Army trousers are repurposed into athletic trunks cushions for bed rest soldiers and even typewriter covers. Also in Simona Florida W F Haynes receives a Silver Star 25 years after St Mihiel for communications skill. he learned he was expected to apply after a later command citation led to the decoration.
Five Japanese soldiers infiltrated the crowd during Judith Anderson’s Shakespeare recital on a plank stage above munitions. Alert guards forced them to sit quietly until the show ended. a New Guinea storm aided their breach but not the performance.
An employee in Miami’s waste division endured a series of jolts after the vehicle stopped, bouncing from the box to the cab, hood, and sidewalk before receiving first aid for a scalp wound. The report also notes South Africa’s high elevation and references multiple blood transfusions in 1666.
In a moonlit chase on the Brent estate, Dr Claud Chivery arrives as gunfire erupts in the meadow while Nicky and Alexia face suspicions, and Peter Huber moves covertly. Anna the maid reports the noise as rabbits, but fear lingers over a possible murder plot amid a tangle of motives.
President Roosevelt welcomes a three day conference on labor policy, praising efforts to raise labor standards through cooperation of state and federal governments. The gathering focuses on practical programs benefiting labor, management and the public. Arabia is reported to have 10 million people across 1,000,000 square miles.
A list of 4-H state champions from West Virginia details Virginia Kyer of Camden-on-Gauley earning an all expense trip to the National 4-H Congress in Chicago for her complete 4-H record. Other winners include Charles Sperow Jr of Martinsburg as a state entrant for national honors and Marling Bailey of Cox's Mills chosen for Firestone Soil Conservation activity selection.
NBC host Ralph Edwards of Truth or Consequences dazzles contestants with odd gifts. One winner was told she earned $200 but must perform a stunt such as opening oysters to reveal pearls. A taxi driver who failed a question received one of JP Morgan’s old valets for a week. The stunt backfired, as the valet was eventually fired after three days.
An eclectic wartime radio diary notes WLW correspondent Cassidy in London relaying on the front lines and planes while Pacific West Coast reporter Sand Freegate? reports from the front. Mira Gould joins Stella Delay as WLW schedules new weekly segments and celebratory anniversaries mark Broward and Opry airings.
A fragmented cipher note claims Hitler follows a strict dietary plan, with references to a security routine and a two year timetable. The message mentions galibenk and dumkop, suggesting a cryptic sequence tied to a placed address and care for a pouch.
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