Our Platform for Beckley and Smokeless Coal Region
Our platform calls for more mine workers on subsistence homesteads, expanded farming in the Smokeless Coal Region to supply fresh produce, and additional parks and playgrounds in Beckley and surrounding areas. It urges managerial government forms for Beckley and Raleigh County, a one cent per ton ad valorem on West Virginia Smokeless Coal, and acquisition of a community forest from nearby cut over timber land. It favors promoting tourist traffic via better accommodations and completing a regional promotion organization for four smoky coal counties, highlighting altitude climate and scenery as a rich, inexhaustible community asset.
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Beckley
Raleigh County
West Virginia
Morale and war effort clash in Washington critique
A wartime column lampoons Washington for treating global danger as a WPA project. It mocks Senate pensions, showy morale panels, and a Donald Duck topic on Capitol Hill while MacArthur fights in Bataan and Singapore burns, arguing Americans seek real leadership and sacrifice.
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Washington
W.P.A
General MacArthur
Batan
House of Representatives
Darling
Mrs. Roosevelt
Singapore
Dutch Indies
Macedonia
Senate
Donald Duck
Capitol Hill
Loss of Singapore Could Open Indian Ocean to Japan
The piece argues that if Japan seizes Singapore, Britain’s 123 year hold on the strategic port ends and Japan gains reach into the Indian Ocean, Bay of Bengal, and beyond. It warns Singapore’s fall would threaten Australia, India, and the Middle East, despite Singapore’s strong naval base and fortifications.
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Singapore
Indian Ocean
Netherlands East Indies
Britain
Bay of Bengal
Calcutta
India
Gulf of Martaban
Salween
Burma
Chiang Shek
Itralia
Japan
Australia
Middle East
Suez
Malacca Straits
Dutch East Indies
Sumatra
Java
Indies
Batan
Manila Bay
Gasoline Curfew Looms As War Strains Supply
Randolph Norton reports on looming gasoline rationing amid submarine warfare and Pacific war pressure. Ickes hints at curfews for stations from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., while retailers and Eastern States Gasoline Dealers push for mandatory hours. Chicago and New York groups back early closing to save fuel and wages, with new pipelines delivering beyond U-boat interference and a Plantation pipeline starting January 23.
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Ickes
Wolf
Atlantic
Pacific
Washington
East
New York City
Eastern States Conference of Gasoline Dealers
Atlantic Seaboard
Chicago
Gasoline Retailers Association
Guy Runyan
National Association of Petroleum Retailers
Donald Nelson
War Production Board
U. S. Bureau of Mines
Standard
N. J
Standard of
Shell
Baton Rouge
Greensboro
N. C
French Eclipse Makes the Sultan a Figurehead
In Tangier Morocco the 31 year old Sultan Sidi Mohammed Ben Youssef has served 14 years as a figurehead created by France. His position follows Morocco becoming a French protectorate after Moulay Hafid abdicated and Moulay Youssef was installed in 1912 amid a tense political scene.
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Tangiers
Morocco
Sidi Mohammed Ben Youssef
Moulay Youssef
Moulay Hafid
France
Charles Nogues
Billy Rose
Black Guard
Jericho
Sidi Mohammed
Moulay Ismael
Louis XIV
Princess de Conti
Versailles
Meknes
Moulay- Hassan
Smit Sidi
Prince Abdullah
Sept Jours
Joe Lewis in Manhattan shows his shy dog charm
George Tucker reviews Joe E. Lewis at the Copacabana, praising his unique New York persona, signature riffs on money and lazar-like patter, and his status as a staple of Manhattan nightlife. The piece also notes Lewis’s more somber bits and unsuccessful show Lady Comes Across.
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York
Joe E. Lewis
Manhattan
Chicago
Saratoga
Miami
Broadway
Joe
Chaplin
W. C. Field
Rachmaninoff
Lovers wed amid wartime hope and new beginnings
Richard Walton reveals he and Robert Lapham's son Dick and Susan plan to marry soon. Dick has grown, hopes aviation training, and the couple will spend three days together before returning to work. Parents share pride and cautious joy as they bless the union and its uncertain future.
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Susan
Robert Lapham
Mr. Lapham
Richard Walton
Bob
Chloe Marsden
Apex Aircraft
Richard
The
Waltons
Mrs. Williams
Cook
Helene
Star Names Dominate Hollywood Preview Culture
Hollywood insiders insist star power drives audience reception, with previews rewarding familiar names and pressuring producers to chase top idols like Mickey Rooney Clark Gable Abbott Costello and Bob Hope. The piece notes industry pains from prestige chasing and includes anecdotes about Jerry Sackheim script lines and early biographies of Patricia Morison Helene Fortescue Reynolds and Jane Withers.
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Mickey Prea
Clark Gable
Abbott and Costello
Bob Hope
June Havoc
Jerry Sackheim
Jane Withers
Shirley Temple
Senate defense of wire tapping amid Pearl Harbor debate
Washington column defends Senate interstate commerce committee and Truman against charges that failure to pass wire tapping legislation aided Pearl Harbor. Notes 1934 onwards, House actions, testimony on national defense risk, labor opposition, and FBI use prior to 1941.
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Washington
Hill
Congress
Senate
Harry S. Truman
Missouri
Senate Interstate Commerce Committee
Burton K. Wheeler
Pearl Harbor
Truman
House
Case Committee
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Hawaii
Department of Justice
Alben Bar
David I. Walsh
Massachusetts
Barkley
Senator Walsh
Holt urges probe of Axis propaganda in America
Former Senator Rush D. Holt testifies before a special grand jury in Washington and says the nation would have been better off with a full investigation of foreign propaganda, including German Russian and English methods, and notes he advocated such inquiry for years. He appeared voluntarily after being asked about individuals previously named in the probe.
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Associated Press
Washington
Rush D. Holt
Weston
W. Va
Holt
America
Navy enlistments top 1600 since Pearl Harbor attack
More than 1,600 men have enlisted in the navy through the West Virginia recruiting district since the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor last December 7, Lieut. W. A. Saunders, commanding officer, said today.
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Associated Press
Charleston
Navy
West Virginia
Pearl Harbor
W. A. Saunders
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