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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1942
Page
4
Raymond Kenny reports West Virginia social services will spend every cent possible on aiding the indigent. He notes higher cash assistance, wartime need, and calls for continued support while critics argue for watched spending and tax relief amid looming war-time finances.
C Bullitt, the President's representative, arrives from Africa to a Western Hemisphere port. Larry Allen proclaims a long war ahead, predicting three to five years. He boasts of Mediterranean service and recounts narrowly escaping Axis fire while on a warship. He notes his eagerness to return home on leave, even hitching a bomber ride with William.
New York AP correspondent Larry Allen, known for months of battles with the British Navy, arrives home after a long tour in the Mediterranean and Atlantic theaters. He recalls Illustrious and Warspite incidents, British morale, and Italian, German naval roles while detailing his perilous journeys and escape from danger.
Susan quarrels with Dick over money and a life tangled with the Waltons. Her father urges caution while hinting at deeper schemes involving Helene, Mrs Marsden, and a possible new courtship with Carleton Vorse as Susan longs for stability.
A Raleigh Register item corrects a misreported court case, stating state facts as King did not offer a guilty plea and the trial proceeded. The excerpt then shifts to a serialized domestic scene in which Susan navigates pressure from Richard Walton's wife Ophelia and tensions about a servant Helene amid family loyalties.
Hollywood gossip notes Claudette Colbert and Joel McCrea rehearse a Palm Beach Story sequence under Preston Sturges. Claudette, five years married to Joel, had run away and now stays with Rudy Vallee in a Palm Beach mansion while Joel pursues her.
Our platform proposes subsistence homesteads for mine workers and more farming in the Smokeless Coal Region to supply fresh farm products. It envisions parks in Beckley, city and county managerial government, a one cent per ton ad tax, acquisition of a community forest, improved tourism with better accommodations, and a regional promotion organization for four smokeless coal counties. Altitude climate and scenery are valued as the region’s inexhaustible asset.
In New York Louis Sorin reflects on a decade of flops before landing the Greenwich Village landlord role in My Sister Eileen. He notes radio work as steady income, having played many characters, and remains both a theater and radio man. He enjoys the stage, yet rues past setbacks while embracing the medium that sustains him.
A Ponca City youth rang his family home to tease his mother and asked for "the head of the house" but was met with the sharp retort "This is she," revealing the caller's bold misunderstanding in a brief exchange.
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