Air Force Day marked as fortieth anniversary of Army Air Forces
The article honors Air Force Day and the fortieth anniversary of the Army Air Forces. It highlights slogans like Keep Your Eyes on the Skies and Air Power is Peace Power, notes aerial events in Beckley and Raleigh County, and recalls the force's history from 1907 to World War II and beyond. It stresses peace through military preparedness and calls for public support.
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Air Force
Army Air Forces
Beckley
Raleigh
United States
Carl Spaatz
Army
Air Forces
Army Air Force
Signal Corps
France
Europe
Bug Duster Editor Talks Jaeger Ties and Local Mentions
George Armstrong writes about a talk with Edwin Pauley a Jaeger well driller revealing a web of mutual acquaintances. The discussion traces marriages and jobs linking Jaeger residents to Beckley Newspapers and Lillybrook Coal Company connections.
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Edwin Pauley
Jaeger
Beckley Newspapers
Pauley
Melda McKinney
Alma Coleman
Cindy
Coleman
Golly
Alma
Clara
Cosby
Iaeger
Fred Reinhard
Big Stick No
Lillybrook Coal Company
Save Those Dollars Now The Smokeless Coal Fields Miners
The mine workers in the smokeless coal fields earn good pay now due to a strong postwar contract. Demand for coal remains high in the U S and Europe, likely to persist through 1949. Miners are urged to save for a rainy day amid mechanization reducing manpower and possible future shortages.
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U. S
Europe
G Men Tighten Grip as Air Age Expands Law
Congress grants FBI equal authority over airways railways highways and seas. The Motor Vehicles Theft Act now covers aircraft and new laws protect air shippers and passengers against larceny and fraud. Laws apply to any contrivance used for navigation or flight including atomic powered craft.
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Congress
FBI
Congress Checkers Keep Busy in Off Season
James Marlow reports Congress heads into a busy off season with travels by Foreign Affairs and a 19 member committee to Europe and the Americas. Senate and House panels probe war contracts, Hollywood influence, surplus property, labor racketeering, housing, prices and tax plans ahead of 1948.
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James Marlow
Washington
Suah
House
Foreign
Europe
Asia
Congressional
Senate
Howard Hughes
Henry Kaiser
House Committee
UN- American
Hollywood
House Labor Committee
House Agriculture Committee
Senate Finance Committee
House ‘Ways and Means
Congress
Armed” Services
Bathtub Scene Blocks Press to Appease Censors in Exile Film
Hollywood reports reveal Maria Montez’s bathtub sequence in The Exile was filmed with a restrictive press ban. Details from a spy claim a brassiere and scanties were worn, the tub was copper with a high back, a lid hid most of Maria, two minutes on screen, and a leak required welding.
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Hollywood
Maria Montez
Johnston Office
Maria
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr
Miss Lizzie Boyle's Column Seeks Social Change
Baltimore’s Elizabeth Gilman, eighty, is a blue blooded Socialist and Maryland’s renowned reformer. She fought poverty by organizing food kitchens, picket lines, and campaigns for public ownership and old age insurance. Despite defeats, she remains energetic, charitable, and devoted to Christianizing the social order.
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Hal Boyle
Baltimore
Lizzie
America
Social Register
Elizabeth Gilman
Maryland
Daniel Coit Gilman
Johns Hopkins University
Mugwump
Frankin Roosevelt
United States
Cozy cottage designed for a single person or couple
Architectural note by Henry C. Hahn of New York describes a three room cottage with hall and bath aimed at those disadvantaged by typical larger dwellings. The wood frame house with 18000 cubic feet offers construction guidance excluding land and garage and features a paved front.
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Henry C. Hahn
Park’ Ave
New York
Martina Declines Audition in Heart and Career Clash
Martina faces a choice between a major audition and her marriage to Dan Holloway. After reading a letter from James Morgan, she realizes the price of fame may be losing Dan. Graddy schemes to force the audition, but Martina stands firm, risking their friendship and her future.
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Martina
James Morgan
van Loretto
Dan
Graddy
Allerton
Mr. Morgan
Cliff Neale
Dan Holloway
Grady
Graday
T. Martina
Dan *Holloway
King Brothers decry Hollywood caste. plan to star unknowns
Maury King details how Paramount RKO and MGM snub independents like the King Brothers who will cast unknowns in a Kantor story. Frank boasts offers to Gregory Peck and Dana Andrews, while the Kings push ahead with July shoot in Webster City Iowa. Hycie Kozinsky handles PR.
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Hollywood
King Brothers
Paramount
RKO
Maury King Husky
Kings
Frank
Gregory Peck
MacKinley Kantor
Peck
Maury
Dana Andrews
Kantor
Webster City
Dominions fly their own flags alongside Union Jack
Australia New Zealand Canada and South Africa fly their own flags in addition to the Union Jack signaling greater national identity within the British Empire. The note emphasizes the practice across dominions without detailing specific events or dates.
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Great Britain
Australia
New Zealand
Canada
South Africa
Housing Ghost Expected To Haunt Paris Meeting
A Paris conference on Europe’s postwar recovery is shadowed by the global housing crisis. Canada France England and the United States face severe shortages with millions homeless, while governments and builders push emergency measures, prefabricated homes, and worker training to stabilize the sector.
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Paris
Europe
France
England
Canada
United States
Diamond ghost towns revived as diamond mines reopen
The Orange Free State in South Africa plans to restart two idle diamond mines near Theunissen and Odendaalsrust. Old machinery is repaired, new equipment arrives, and houses are reoccupied as ghost settlements come back to life. Shafts flooded long ago are being dewatered. The Associated Press report notes springing mining activity alongside existing gold operations.
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Associated Press
Johannesburg
Orange Free State
Theunissen
Odendaalsrust
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George Armstrong
Register City
Thomas F. Stafford
Register
McKinney
Earl Howery
Howery
Appalachian Council of
Boy Scouts of America
Camp Wilderness
Gus Walker
H. A. Sloan
Troop
Son Jack
Odi Casali
American Legion
Charles Hodel
Dana Amick
Sloan
Harry Hall
W. M. Reeser
the Nation
Latin America
By Gene Handsaker
San Antonio
Sherman
Harry S. Truman
Beverly
Tyler
Ginny Simms
Bob
Hutton
Oregon
Humphrey Bogart
Tim Holt
Walter Huston
Sierra Madre
Boyle
Johns Hopkins
Recorder
City of
West Virginia
Ap’ Newsfeatures
FLOOR
Helen R Woodward
Maurice, Frank and
Hyman Kozinsky
East Side
Ministry of Health
Diamond
San Francisco
Chinatown
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