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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1944
Page
4
A prophetic-tinged survey argues reconstruction will follow war’s end, with trade, communications, and television linking nations. It envisions the Bible reaching billions, guiding salvation and a moral reordering amid rising perils. England and America are cited as once spreading the Bible globally.
Majorie Barstow Greenbie’s Lincoln's Daughters of Mercy chronicles the birth of the United States Sanitary Commission, tracing how Florence Nightingale era volunteers and American women formed aid societies, organized nursing, and spurred reforms behind Civil War lines. The review praises the book as important and well presented, though it exposes stark wartime abuses and grim conditions endured by soldiers in both armies.
The BLUE network announces season adjustments. Set You moves to Saturdays at 3 with BLUE Probes at 3 30. CBS cancels Congress Speaks to allow John A. Stephens to discuss steel wage policy at 10 30. NBC features Cavalcade of America and others tonight.
The president extended his stay beyond two weeks at Baruch's plantation in Georgetown County, enjoying views of azaleas and Winyah Bay from a first floor bedroom. He rode through pine and live oak forests, slept about half the day, and fished or drove to 27 other local plantations while papers arrived from Washington.
Delegates in Chicago will pick a national committee man and committeeman with Hallanan supporters seeking to safeguard positions. In West Virginia Dewey leads for GOP delegates while Bricker is a second choice for many. Democratic polls favor fourth term, with factional fights shaping candidate pronouncements from Holt and Meadows and Watts advocating Meadows to back the current administration.
A Washington exchange between Interior Secretary Ickes and United Mine Workers president Lewis over delayed $40 retroactive travel time payments exposed mutual irritation. The quarrel followed Ickes earlier pushing a wage contract with the operators, stirring tension about leadership and policy amid ongoing labor and political tensions in Britain’s empire era.
Bath North Carolina preserves a 125 year old ghost story as hoofprints remain after a fence was removed. Jesse Elliott’s legendary horse race on a Sabbath morning ended with his death when the horse reared into a tree. The tale persists in locals who still believe Old Harry haunts the scene.
DeWitt Craft advertised a heavy disk plow in Garden City Telegram. Pvt Clinton C Crouse a farmer from Garden City replied from his home town paper saying he has the outfit sought. Political remarks follow with Funkhouser condemning bossism in parties and Dawson and Holt making speeches on radio stations across the state.
Colin Rae and Irina Meredith travel to Learmonth to uncover why Jonathan Dove runs the Indian school and pays high fur prices. Van Downe warned of a hidden plan behind Dove as Rae recalls Downe’s murder and a wider conspiracy. Rae defies orders to investigate, hoping to expose the truth behind Dove and the trapper society.
In a Toledo feature, radio personality Shirley Mitchell recalls a childhood locket given by her father in Paris with her parents’ pictures inside and a torn corner of a $500 bill. The piece ties her early life to the Great Gildersleeve era and hints at the luck it brought.
London dispatches based on authoritative information place enemy reserves behind the western coast at 54 to 67 divisions. They could move swiftly by rail and may have aircraft destruction plans for rail centers. Analysts debate whether Nazis hoard fighters or deploy them soon, while calculating the fleet threat and possible two-front action.
A historic Q and A lists benefits for disabled World War II veterans including compensation pensions hospitalization outpatient care and burial allowances. It notes dependents may claim pension on a veteran’s service related death and outlines burial allowances and nonservice connected disability opinions. It also mentions service connected disabilities definitions and burial amounts.
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