Our Platform Promotes Local Development in Beckley Area
Our platform advocates miners living on subsistence homesteads, expanded Smokeless Coal Region farming to meet fresh product demand, improved parks and playgrounds in Beckley, and managerial government forms for Beckley and Raleigh County. It calls a one cent per ton ad tax for West Virginia Smokeless Coal, aims to acquire a community forest, boosts tourist traffic with better accommodations, and completes a regional promotion group for four smokeless coal counties, highlighting altitude climate and scenery as the community asset.
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Beckley
Raleigh County
West Virginia
Beckley Seeks Federal Court Presence in Local Jurisdiction
Beckley leaders, the sheriff, and a bar committee plan to keep federal court sessions in Beckley to save local travel costs and boost Raleigh County’s economy. Judge Moore signals the court may relocate unless local authorities meet demands, affecting lawyers, merchants, and residents across nearby counties. The drive envisions Beckley hosting multiple annual sessions and possibly federal facilities in the long term.
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United States District Court
West Virginia
Bar Association
Ben Moore
Beckley
U. S. Bureau of Prisons
Princeton
Hinton
Fayetteville
Charleston
Huntington
Bar Committee
Moore
Raleigh
Federal
Bluefield
Fayette
Wyoming
Summers County
Mercer
McDowell County
Federal Court
Lewisburg
Mud-headed Christians and Japanese views on race
Randolph Norton quotes a Tokyo response denouncing Christian influence in Japan as enervating and radical. The text portrays General Yanagwa’s declarations denying equality to other races and demanding segregation and labor control, framing Christianity as a threat to imperial order. The piece ends with a misfit line about a federal court and jail management.
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Japan
Heisuke Yanagwa
Yanagwa
Ott
Jap Ministry of Justice
Tokyo
Deferment Clash Over War Work Deferred Labor Leaders
Draft director General Hershey defends deferment for labor leaders and media workers to maintain morale while ordering rank and file laborers in shipyards and plants to report for military service. AFL opposes deferment of officials. Johnson comments on political influence in selective service.
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Louis B. Hershey
Selective Service
Hershey
Gen. Hershey
Speaking on War Plans Miss the Geography Lesson
The writer chides critics who discuss naval and army strategies without understanding geography. He notes the distances and intervening lands between here and distant theaters, implying such talk ignores real travel and logistics constraints in warfare.
Guano Helped Make Uncle Sam Emperor Search for Guano Helped Make Uncle Sam Emperor
The Nation traces U S territorial expansion from 1867 Alaska to 1900s Pacific possessions. It notes Wilkes explorations, guano trade, Hawaii annexation, Philippine Islands cession and Guam, Midway, Johnston, Palmyra, Baker, Howland, Jarvis, Canton Enderbury bases, and Pago Pago naval station shaping America’s overseas reach.
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Uncle Sam
Associated Press
Washington
United States
Pacific
New England
Republic
Pacific Ocean
National Geographic Society
Charles Wilkes
Congress
Wilkes
State Department
Pacific Islands
Alaska
Aleutian
Russia
Kamchatka’s
Hawaii
Philippine Islands
Spain
Swain
Samoa
Great Britain
Honolulu
Jarvis Island
United States Department of the Interior
Phoenix Group
Howland
Baker Islands
Canton
Enderbury
Tutuila
Aunua
Rose Island
Manua
United States Territory
Pago Pago
Armament Program and Its Cost to You Explained
A New York World analysis breaks down the President's victory program in broad dollars. It estimates a typical year near 12 months of wartime spending, with $73 billion of consumer spending power after taxes and borrowing. Inflation risk rises from wage gains and scarce civilian goods, potentially lowering living standards as prices spiral.
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New York
Treasury
Pearl Harbor
America
National Industrial Conference Board
Yanks Are Coming Again Song Sparks War-time Glow
Hollywood notes celebrate Harry Seymour's half hour composition The Yanks Are Coming Again inspired by a live radio report and performed for Ann Sheridan and Jack Carson. Estelle Taylor returns to town for Broadway date while Rita Hayworth's garter scene faced Hays Office limits. Cregar coaches voice drills for West Point tale and other casting notes pepper this entertainment brief.
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Hollywood
Harry Seymour
Seymour
England
Ann Sheridan
Jack Carson
New York Ward
Broadway
Hays Office
Rita Hayworth
Gal Sal
Dolores del Rio
Entangled Emotions Drive Sharon toward Dangerous Affairs
Sharon navigates a tense evening with Tom and then Harvey Goodwin, while her brother Dennis lands in jail. Goodwin probes her loyalty and hints at protection, as Sharon faces fear, guilt, and a chilling threatening note left on her desk.
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Sharon
Dennis Doyle
Dennis
Goodwin
Pavlo
Harvey Goodwin
Melody
Ike
Tom
Stafford
Wheat Referendum Set For May 2 By Wheat Quota Vote
Morgantown H S Van dervort confirms secretary Wickard designates Saturday May 2 for the wheat referendum. Marketing quotas require two thirds of farmers voting in the national referendum to approve. Farmers approved 1941 quotas by an eight percent margin.
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The
Associated Press
Morgantown
H. S. Vandervort
State
A.A.A
Secretary of Agriculture
Claude R. Wickard
Quota Rules Similar in 1942 as 1941 for Wheat Farms
Vandervort stated the 1942 quota program mirrors 1941, with exemptions for farms planting 15 acres or less of wheat for harvest and for farms where normal production on the planted wheat acreage is under 200 bushels.
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Vandervort
Tire stock totals 6,502,000 units on January 1
Distributors held 6,502,000 tires in stock as of January 1. Panama's government is stepping up efforts to boost food production with a focus on expanding output and related policies.
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Panama
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MacArthur
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William Reynolds
Pan American Airways
Philippines
Midway
Kure
Ocean
Wake Islands
Peale
Wake
Johnston
Sandof Agnes Island
Sally
Johnston Island
Coolidge
Kingman Reef
Palmyra
Palmyre
Lawle
American Guano Company
By Robbin Coons
Estelle Taylor
Estelle
Basil
Ouida Rathbone
Cregar
West Point
Pasadena Community Playhouse
Belle Danes
Veloz
Yolanda
John Shepperd
Edgar Allan Poe
Linda Darnell
Cary Grant
Jean Arthur
Ronald Coleman
Eleanor Atterbury
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