Ten Years After Pearl Harbor Reflections on War and Peace
Editorial notes a decade since Pearl Harbor and the ensuing Cold War shifts. It cites unity after the attack, the rise of NATO and the UN, Korea, and a renewed resolve against communism while praising regional leadership in Newport News and naming G. A. Bentley as a key development catalyst for local industry and jobs.
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House of Representatives
Pearl Harbor
America
Pearl Markor
Germany
Japan
Italy
United Nations
Soviet Union
South Korea
Korea
Oklahoma
Maryland
Shaw
Washington
International
Five Years of Accomplishments by Peninsula Industrial Committee
The Peninsula Industrial Committee in Newport News Va recalls five years of progress. Subscribers contributed 247756 for industrial development, funding a successful venture returnin ge 12000 annually. Payroll rose 149 million, local purchases 3 million, indirect payroll 317 million, and over 2000 new jobs created.
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Newport News
PIC
PLC
G. A. Bentley
Beckley Chamber of Commerce
Peninsula Industrial Committee
Newport- News
Sage of Uvalde John Nance Garner Deer Hunting at 83
The Sage of Uvalde John Nance Garner hunts in Nueces Canyon north of Uvalde Texas on his 83rd birthday. He wears sheepskin pants to stay warm while awaiting a deer or turkey. Garner retired as U S vice president in 1911 after two terms and has avoided politics since breaking with Roosevelt. He criticizes no one but remains silent on Eisenhower and current candidates, blaming ingratitude for past renomination denial.
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John Nance Garner
Nueces Canyon
Uvalde
Texas
Garner
United States
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Henry A. Wallace
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Harry S. Truman
Haid
Women led athletic reform urge men colleges to share
A statement from thirty seven women led colleges urges men’s colleges to embrace women’s ideas in athletics and return control to students. It argues women’s sports emphasize moral training and sportsmanship over spectacle, with reliance on alumnae support and no paid coaches.
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Athletic Federation
Christmas trees and a Beckley cash crop idea
Bug Dust reports a church coat theft and a humorous note on turning Christmas trees into income for Beckley and surrounding areas. WVU forestry experts estimate 3750 trees sold in Beckley city, 5000 nearby, grossing about 10000 dollars at two dollars per tree, with county totals near five hundred thousand over time. A Newport News lawyer-penned Ode rumbles with playful alliteration about local growth.
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Courthouse Square
West Virginia University
Beckley
Virginia
Wisconsin
Newport News
G. A. Bentley
Bentley
Matthew Warren to Lead St. Pauls School for Boys
The Rev Matthew Madison Warren, longtime Atlanta rector, will head north to train for the St Pauls School for Boys in Concord New Hampshire. He plans to study at Columbia and then in Concord before officially taking over in 1954 when Rector Henry C Kittredge retires. Warren emphasizes education as integral to life and aims to be a hands on pastor while guiding the school through its 95 year history.
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Harlow Warren
Atlanta
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Matthew Madison Warren
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St. Paul's
Henry C. Kittredge
Columbia
Episcopal St. Paul's
Virginia
Maton
St. Louis
Episcopal Educacation Center
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Ebenezer Scrooge Returns in Christmas Caroon
A well dressed man helps a hungry beggar who on impulse tells a tale of a family cursed with miserliness. The beggar, Ebenezer Scrooge the third, admits Christmas joy has left him broke after years of scrimping, and the moral shifts the pair toward generosity.
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Charles Dickens
Ebenezer Scrooge
Santa Claus
Tag
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Scrooge
Internal Revenue Bureau Morale Sinks Amid Scandals
A Washington interview with a Treasury official and then discuss how the Internal Revenue Bureau turmoil affected workers. He notes neighbors’ suspicions and morale drop as about 30 to 50 thousand employees face fallout, with rumors spreading and distrust growing within the bureau.
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Internal Revenue
Teau
Executions Policy in Peiping Confused by Red Orders
In Hong Kong, Chinese Communist officials face contradictory Peiping directives guiding purges of counter-revolutionaries. Officials devised a suspended death sentence as a compromise after Peiping first urged tighter enforcement then suggested easing up, yielding a dual approach in field executions.
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Associated Press
Hong Kong
Peiping
Looking Backward Today From The Register files
Ten years ago Mayor A K Minter called Beckley dial telephone system. Moscow faced Nazi forces in dire peril. Japan bombed Pearl Harbor and U S lost 3000 men and two warships. Britain declared war on Finland Hungary and Romania for siding with Germany.
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Beckley
Moscow
Pearl Harbor
U. S
Finland
Hungary
Rumania
Germany
Beckley Lumber and Supply Company
John N. Garner
Texas
Washington
Adolf Hitler
National Socialist Party
Stuttgart
Moonlit meeting sparks fear and rescue in Morton tale
In a moonlit village scene Andrew Nolan helps Katherine after she fears a late journey. He plans to keep her safe to Morton’s cottage where he stays, while Morton feigns cheer and prepares a late meal as tension rises toward an inevitable confrontation.
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Morton
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United Nations Six Year Picture by Francis W Carpenter
The UN described from its birth to its current state with Trygve Lie’s leadership. It covers structure members ambitions and issues from Korea to atomic energy and refugees, and notes the UN’s need for broader American support and a prayer room option.
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Ralph Bunche
Katz- Suchy
Frank Carpenter
United Nations
East River
Trygve
Carpenter
Salemn
Korea
U.S
Russia
Room For Prayer
Cerfisms And Banter In Navy Years And Love
Bennett Cerf and Pat O’Hara were Navy pals with Muldoon, recounting jokes about ranks and battles. A woman’s kiss of skepticism and a confession of interest close a scene of playful banter and a longing to know each other better.
Hollywood By Gebe Handsacker
Hollywood gossip accounts the allure of modern interiors and star exploits. Details cover a futuristic fireplace trend in June Bawger's apartment and Joan Crawford with a young admirer. Errol Flynn on set. Audrey Totter in Korea. and studio cop Gibby Gibbs praised for quick takes.
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June Bawger
Joan Crawford
Joan
Errol Flynn
Flynn
Gibby
Lloyd Bacon
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