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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 18, 1943
Page
10
Alderson high school participates in a Jeep bond and stamp sale drive, with the junior class leading at 3,636.45 dollars in sales, while the eighth grade and twelfth grade also contribute. The total school sales reach 6,420.35 dollars as contracts are revealed.
Summers county's Red Cross War Fund surpassed the $6,000 goal, reaching $7,093.97 with more contributions expected. Chairman R. C. Haynes announced the total gifts to date and noted funds continue to come in.
Alderon The Monroe county rationing board announces public office hours to observe. The office is open to the public Mondays through Fridays from 10 a.m. to noon and 1 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. and Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 12:15 p.m.
Captain William Perry former mayor of White Sulphur Springs and longtime Greenbrier hotel associate has been transferred to Carlisle Pennsylvania with Captain Robert W. Waller. They begin a six week refresher course at Carlisle Barracks before reporting to Camp Gaunt. Both men have been prominent in White Sulphur Springs for years.
The daughters of Mrs. Cal Ailiff hosted a dinner at her Alderson home on Sunday April 9 for her 78th birthday. Guests included Mrs. Karl Burger of Roxboro North Carolina Mr and Mrs E B Laon and daughter Dixie Lee of Wallville Mr and Mrs F D Sibold of Union and Mr and Mrs W C Craig and family of Alderson.
The Navy casualty list for March includes Water Tender James Harrison Coutts, brother of Mrs. H Daniels of 10285 Madison Avenue Huntington, reported killed in action while serving with the merchant marine.
A joint Hinton Rotary Kiwanis committee seeks solutions to a labor shortage endangering Bluestone dam construction. Dravo Construction reports only 68,000 of 1,000,000 cubic yards of concrete poured, while AFL cites better paying jobs elsewhere as the cause.
Preliminary hearing for Clinton O Williams, jailed on a breaking and entering charge, will be called tomorrow afternoon. Felony charges were filed before Magistrate George C Mills by Chief of Police Tommy Roberts. Williams was arrested yesterday for breaking into a C and O railroad refrigerator car near Hurt Feed and Supply. Stolen items included 12 pound pork loin, lard, sausage, and smoked meat. all goods were recovered by police. Arrest was by city police with aid from Mabscott Chief Trenton Stover. Williams admitted the charges.
The Sunset Homemakers Club of Flat Top Mountain met Friday afternoon April 9 at Mrs. Gilmer Carter’s home. Members participated in a discussion on victory gardens and refreshments were served to S. W. Miller, J. L. Bennett, Lester Bennett, Pearl Carter, W. N. Edds, C. C. Bradley, Joice Carle, Harold Lee Bennett, and Marie and Alfred Bradley.
Democratic spokesmen see merits beyond war focus. Advocates argue the old nomination timeline was outdated and that modern communication and transportation allow platforms and arguments to reach the nation within hours rather than days or weeks.
Allied forces conducted a second daylight raid on Bremen as American bombers targeted the Focke Wulf Flugzeugbau assembly line amid heavy air battles with more than 100 German fighters. The operation followed Brest and Lorient strikes and accompanied RAF and Dominion efforts over Holland Belgium and the French coast. Refugee governments and Czechs welcomed the renewed offensive noting the Skoda plant raid as a timely boost to morale.
Allied planes struck Palermo and damaged six merchant ships and two destroyers while destroying nineteen enemy aircraft in combat. The desert air force accounted for twelve, with eight Allied planes reported missing. German night transport efforts from Sicily were thwarted as American fighters scattered JU-42s and destroyed JU-88s.
The document outlines three proposed actions: designate locally needed activities by regional directors, ban non-essential employers from recruiting workers from essential activities at higher pay, and restrict essential employers from luring workers from other essential employers at higher wages, unless allowed under WMC approved job stabilization programs.
Funeral services for Mrs. Texas Cole 75 of Mount View. She died en route home from Jumping Branch after heart attack Friday night. Burial in Mount View cemetery. Survived by four sons J H Cole E C Cole R R Cole B V Cole. three daughters Stellie Lilly Manora Lilly Dothat Cole. one brother H L Lilly.
H. D. Thompson and his son, of Beaver, are on bond and will appear before Magistrate George C. Mills tomorrow to answer charges of maiming, following an altercation in Grand View. Levi Hager filed the complaint after being severely beaten with several head deposits observed. Constable Howard Keatley arrested them, saying the dispute arose from a disputed property trade.
Major Philip Cochran of Erie Pennsylvania flew a P-40 Warhawk to attack a German general's hotel in a North African town. He dropped a 500 pound bomb on the highest building in town, watching the hotel dissolve in smoke and flames. A contemporaneous letter from First II Howard R. Harris notes the bomb may or may not have hit the general, but it angered enemy forces as their field was bombed or strafed for 16 days straight.
In the aftermath of the bombed Krupp plant at Essen, many workers were moved to the Skoda works where about 55,000 employees are now reported. The migration reflects rebuilding needs and wartime labor reshuffling.
The Associated Press reports West Virginia’s second war loan campaign progressed as two counties, Mercer and Cabell, announced they had reached their bond goals by 10:30 p.m. and 10:25 a.m. respectively. state headquarters stayed quiet awaiting final tallies while calls went out for continued support to push past the quota. As of April 15, residents had purchased 14.41 million dollars of the 29 million dollar drive.
Morgantown reports backyard poultry rising to meet meat shortages. West Virginia households raise chickens and eggs as substitutes, with J B Smith of West Virginia University advising proper feeding and housing. Three hens per person supply. a family of four needs about 12 hens, with extras for guests. Start three times as many chicks as hens required.
Six young Japanese-Americans arrived to work on poultry farms owned by Interior Secretary Ickes and his neighbor Sam Rice, a former Washington outfielder. The visitors expressed enthusiasm about their placement and new duties on the farms.
The press conference shows a deadlock over coal miners demands as 450000 workers push for a $2 daily increase, portal-to-portal pay, and unionization. ONeill accuses opponents of threatening a lockout while Steelman reports no progress and a looming government role via the War Labor Board. Local relocation center labor aid is described with Japanese-Americans assigned to farms under Ickes policy.
In the southern conference Ed ward R Burke of the Southern Coal Producers association said Dr Steelman might propose referring the dispute to the War Labor Board, while Steelman declined to comment. At the northern meeting both sides refused to discuss extending the contract date, noting it had not been raised. Lewis accused financial interests of blocking an agreement and presented railcar storage figures as leverage while O Neill blamed weather delaying Great Lakes shipping for storage on tracks. The pace and aims of the talks remained uncertain as both sides argued over government involvement and real incentives to reach an accord.
Chief of Police Tammy Roberts said yesterday she dismissed Patrolman Jimmy Morris and appointed Lewis Laurie, former city merchants night watchman, in his place. Roberts declined to comment on Morris dismissal beyond noting the patrolman wished to leave for another job.
Three inmates survived a deadly drinking episode at a mountain prison barracks and returned to Moundsville penitentiary. They were Lessie Ellis 28 Logan Counts Hansford Gordon Saunders 26 Kanawha County and John Wth Row 23 Greenbrier County. They drank antifreeze from truck radiators. seven convicts died.
The state tax department reported March sales tax at 804 416 90, down from February’s 866 977 62 as business ends reflect lower intake. Gasoline excise tax fell to 447 955 03 from 530 080 06, while beer barrel tax rose to 77 126 77, up from both prior month and March 1942.
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