Hospitals for Polio Victims Prompt Local Action
Polio patients in the area face hospitalization at home due to hospital policies and public fears. The Raleigh County Infantile Paralysis Foundation, allied with the national group, seeks a conference of civic and medical leaders to improve care, including possible special facilities or wards. Dr Offner notes a trend toward less isolation but quarantine remains advisable.
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Offner
Raleigh County Infantile Paralysis Foundation
National Organization
Raleigh Register blamed photo and drought talk in column
The piece pokes fun at a Raleigh Register photo of Marie Ames from the county clerk’s office, notes a rain drought, and reflects on Youth Center funding. It discusses recreation for youths, budget shortfalls, and the plan to merge the center with the city playground, plus local street layouts Neville and Prince streets and the Prince street railroad crossing issues.
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Marie Ames
Raleigh Register
Floyd M. Sayre
Republican County Executive Committee
H. L. Crawford
Bank of Raleigh
Crawford
Jack
Neville
Prince Streets
Phipps
Harper Road
Neville Street
Heber Street
Oakwood Avenue
Prince
Chesapeake and Ohio Locomotive Engineers
Prince Street
Prince Street Crossing
Keystone of national life the American family endures
Insurance statisticians report that the family as an institution remains strong despite wartime marriages and divorces. They expect the home to stay the bulwark of freedom after demobilization, with patterns by type unlikely to change materially. A fashion note adds a quip about Nagasaki and a college girl’s attire, while the father is depicted as a bill payer rather than an expert.
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America
Insurance Company
Captured German Generals Stay Silent on Coats
A wartime report notes that captured German generals refuse to discuss why they are always pictured in overcoats even during August heat. The secrecy fuels speculation about their discipline and postwar plans.
Hitler’s dwindling Nazis brace for retreat as Paris push nears
DeWitt MacKenzie argues Hitler’s forces remain capable of a stubborn fight in Paris and beyond. He cautions against Western optimism, noting German morale, rearguard actions, and regimentation signals suggest a drawn-out collapse ahead. Allied pressure and anticipated evacuations shape a grim, protracted phase.
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Hitler
Paris
Bernard Montgomery
France
Eduard Benes
Benes
Germany
Fuehrer
Europe
Seine Estuary
Seine
Fifteenth Army
English Channel
Norway
Soviet says Romanians resist Germans as allies possible
Moscow reported that Romanian troops, after stopping fighting, faced German machine gun fire for retreating while Romanians claimed Nazi masters killed their officers. The statement followed Romania's offer to accept Allied peace terms and amid talk of a Bulgarian armistice.
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Prut
Siret
Moscow
Romania
Washington
London
Bulgaria
Hughe M. Knatchbull - Hugesson
Turkey
Sofia
Bessarabia
Soviet Foreign Commissariat
Transylvania
Vienna
Hungary
School meeting details for Negro principals and staff
Assistant Superintendents Sherman Trail and Norval Cooke will lead a meeting with J B Elliott presiding over Negro principals. Attendance issues, free textbooks, school patrols, immunization of new pupils, hot lunch and home bound programs to be discussed by listed school officials and Dr W W Hine.
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Sherman Trail
Norval Cooke
J. B. Elliott
B. B. Chambers
Grace O. Austin
Southern West Virginia Automobile Club
W.W —Hine
Allied air attack hits panzer divisions near Turin
Air force reports describe two panzer divisions north of Turin under threat from heavy American bombers. Allied leadership keeps radio silence on swift task forces moving from Grenoble toward Avignon and the Rhone valley. Isolated enemy units attempt to flee toward Germany as Eisenhower and Patch advance, with Allies tracking their positions.
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Riviera
Turin
Grenoble
Avignon
Rhone
Lyon
France
Germany
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Patch
Public Forum Letter on Strip Mining in 1944
A. G. Wilcox of Daniels West Virginia writes to the Raleigh Register defending strip mining, arguing 225 acres suffice for 1.5 million tons of coal and that soils, laws, rail, and fuel demand support mining, while questioning rich operators and taxes and urging justification for strip mining during wartime.
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Daniels
W. Va
Raleigh Register
Todays Register
A. G. Wilcox
Allied push near Paris as Patton’s forces advance southeast
News reports indicate Patton’s armored units operate southeast of Paris with Montereau and Montargis occupied and an eastward advance near Montargis. Americans reportedly penetrated 15 miles beyond Sens, nearing the German frontier, while the Seine pocket remains contested around Elbeuf and Bernay.
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Supreme Command
George S.S. Patton
Paris
Montereau
Fontainebleau
Montargis
Sens
Tower Seine
Ibeuf
Bernay
Honfleur
Elbeuf
Seine
R.A.F
Amiens
Associated Press
Roger D. Greene
Supreme Headquarters
Mantes
West Virginia schools unlikely to open late
Charleston officials say no delay in WV school openings unless infantile paralysis cases rise. In 1944 fifty nine cases have been reported with five deaths. the current trend does not justify postponing the September 5 start in most counties.
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Associated Press
Charleston
Health Department
West Virginia
Beckley urged to advertise manpower surplus postwar
In Beckley a regional C E D official urged local business leaders to publicize a projected postwar manpower surplus to attract new industry. He noted housing and labor availability drive factory siting, while coal output will fall then recover, prompting a 35 hour week for miners to spread jobs.
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Beckley
C. Howard Smith
Richmond
National Committee On Economic Development
Research Committee On Economic Development
Smith
James Hart
Logan
1566 Acres Leased For Gas By Columbian Carbon Co
The Columbian Carbon company a Delaware corporation has leased 1566.9 acres in Marsh Fork district on Rock creek Sand Lick creek and Marsh Fork of Coal river for mining and drilling oil and gas The lease filed in the county clerk's office covers eight tracts originally owned by John L Dickinson and leased by Charles C and Nellie C Dickinson and the Southern Land company It excludes coal rights The lease runs from July 1 for 10 years and continues as long as oil or gas is produced It includes payments of 1566 90 annually as minimum rental one eighth of all oil produced or net proceeds one and a half cents per thousand cubic feet of gas and one eighth of selling price in excess of 12 cents per thousand cubic feet of gas The land lies along Rock creek with small tracts on Peach Tree branch Sand Lick creek and Marsh Fork.
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Columbian Carbon Company
Delaware Corporation
Marsh Fork
Rock Creek
Sand Lick Creek
Coal River
John L. Dickinson
Charles C
Nellie C. Dickinson
Southern Land Company
Charleston
Peach Tree Branch
French Press Returns as Marseille Declares Liberation
Delayed reports state two Marseille newspapers La Marseillaise and Rouge-Midi published two page editions announcing the liberation of Marseille and Paris. Front pages feature Gen De Gaulle Premier Stalin President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill.
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Associated Press
Marseille
la Marseillaise
Rouge-Midi
Paris
de Gaulle
Stalin
Roosevelt
Churchill
Wilson and Nelson clash over reconversion control
In a tense senate hearing Wilson and Nelson spar over War Production Board control during reconversion. Wilson accuses Nelson of delaying cutback machinery and cites Byrnes orders, while Nelson pledges to resume direct agency management and insists policy and operation are aligned on reconversion plans.
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Wilson
Nelson
Manana
James F. Byrnes
Baruch-Hancock
Byrnes
Navy
W.P.B
Senate
Projected Security Agency Not To Plan War Liquidation
Washington reports that limits on the upcoming world security body at Dumbarton Oaks may drop plans to assign peace conference issues to the agency. British officials urge separating war liquidation from peace organization, while Russians insist non war tasks stay distinct from the core work.
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Projected Security Agency
Associated Press
Washington
World Security Organization
Dumbarton Oaks
London
Press leaders urge free news flow for world peace
Reuters and Associated Press executives urge unfettered international news flow to back durable peace. Cooper and Chancellor call for independent agencies answerable to the public, with low uniform rates and non governmental control. Hull, Dulles, and Dewey aides push bipartisan talks on a security agency and postwar settlements. Talks focus on Dumbarton Oaks plans, streamlining the agency, and binding commitments among major powers.
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New York
Kent Cooper
Associated Press
Christopher Chancellor
Reuters
Free World
Out Today
Cooper
United Nations
Truth In News
James Lawrence Fly
Federal Communications Commission
Allied bombings press Germany with wide strike
After a day of clearing weather the Allied air offensive expands across Germany. Targets include Wismar bomber assembly and parts plants Lubeck Rostock Politz synthetic oil plant and air force stations at Anklam Schwerin Neubrandenburg west of Stettin. Rechlin air force research center is hit as renewed large scale raids spread from Britain and Italy.
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Germany
Wismar
Lubeck
Rostock
Politz
Stettin
Anklam
Schwerin
Neubrandenburg
Rechlin
Britain
Italy
Reich
Temperature records in Beckley show sharp swings
A thermometer atop the Beckley Newspaper building marked a low of 42 during the night and a high of 81 yesterday. By 11 o clock this morning the mercury had risen to 73 degrees.
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Beckley
Mercury
West Virginia capital enjoys cooler night after heat wave
Charleston residents finally slept well as a long heat spell broke with rain last week. Temperatures had hovered between 70 and 100 for days, plunging to 49 overnight. Women wore fall coats downtown and shop doors closed against the sudden chill.
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Associated Press
Charleston
West Virginia
Mercury
Russians Reach Deep Into Eastern Front And Barland Seizure
The article notes ruthless killings of Romanians retreating along the Prut and Siret routes. It reports Barland seized on the Iasi Galati railway 58 miles north of Galati placing Russians 85 miles from Nazi defenses on the lower Siret and Putna. It also states Soviet forces neared Tartu Estonia and closed on Lomaz near the East Prussian frontier.
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Prut
Siret
Barland
Iasi- Galati
Galati
Putna
Tartu
Estonia
Lomaz
Poland
Mystery Washing Machine in Basement Sign Sparks Curiosity
In New York a disconnected washing machine in a basement bears a sign claiming it will operate again once tenants stop using red and blue ration tokens and insert dimes. The quirky note hints at wartime rationing era humor or instruction.
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Associated Press
New York
Saving not thrifty in New Brunswick bargain day
A battered New Brunswick housewife rode the city bus after bargain day and told her neighbor she saved a lot of money. When asked what she bought she replied she bought nothing because she couldn’t get waited on.
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Associated Press
New Brunswick
N. J
Snakes Lack Eyelids and Keep Eyes Open
Snakes do not have eyelids and continually keep their eyes exposed. This anatomical trait means their eyes are always visible and unprotected by movable eyelids.
New Guinea Natives Weave Spider Web Nets for Fishing
In New Guinea communities, people twist large native spider webs into effective fishing nets. This craft showcases inventive use of local resources and traditional weaving techniques.
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New Guinea
Far Eastern Artists Paint Beyond Sight to Feeling
A concise observation notes that most Far Eastern artists express emotion over direct representation. It framing suggests a tradition valuing inner perception in artwork and aims to contrast with literal depiction.
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Hinton
Katz Agency
Chicago
Detroit
Kansas City
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Atlanta
Dallas
Nagasaki
By DeWitt MacKenzie
C.E.D
Island Creek Coal Company
Hart
Memorial Building
Paul Hoffman
Studebaker
Committee
John Q
The
Security Agency
Hull
Senate Foreign Relations
John Foster Dulles
Thomas E. Dewey
United States
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