Raleigh Register page listing subscriptions and rates
The Raleigh Register Evening and Sunday Morning pub notes Beckley and Hinton offices and national AP rights. It lists subscription rates for Beckley area and outside Beckley with monthly and annual terms, plus a WV sales tax addition and a January 30, 1910 date line. The text includes printing and advertising agency references and editorial leadership.
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Cartier
Beckley
Vale
Mai
Bf Beckley
West Virginia
The Case Against Censorship by a Democratic Public
A passionate critique argues censorship erodes democracy and harms the public good. It condemns military secrecy beyond enemy needs, notes repeated withholding of atrocity and Tokyo bombing details, and warns that self appointed censors undermine freedom of information and equal right to know. It calls for unrestricted information flow as the democratic norm.
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Army
Navy
State Department
Tokyo
Doolittle
Caught in the Squeeze as Murray Attacks Cost Figures
President Philip Murray of the CIO told a senate subcommittee that living costs have risen about 50 percent since January 1911, contradicting the government's 23.4 percent figure. Murray called the statistics deceitful, prompting a LABS chief response. The dispute sparks Senate scrutiny of 15 million white collar workers as Senator Pepper expresses astonishment at the testimony on average pay.
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Philip Murray
C.I.0
Senate
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Murray
A. F. Hinrichs
Pepper
Florida
White collar workers endure wage squeeze amid inflation
A Senate inquiry reveals white collar workers such as professors, clerks, and stenographers face sharp pay erosion as prices rise. Monthly salaries for 3,000 state and municipal employees average $125, hospital staff $83 with room and board. The piece argues these workers, paid weekly or monthly, are hit hardest by inflation and wage restraint, unlike hourly laborers.
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Senate
Mountain Playground Prospects For Big Beaver Area
Discussion notes the potential to create water storage lakes on Big Beaver creek and Litla Beaver Creek for railroads and as a mountain resort. Scouts access, deeper pool areas, and development of a broader playground are mentioned, with aims to serve Raleigh County residents locally after the war.
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Big Beaver Creek
Marev
Beckley
C. and
O. Jake
Litla Beaver Creek
Big Beaver
Voice of Authority on City Planning for Better Living
Roger W. Babson urges long range planning for cities linking population trends land use and climate to regional and national context. He praises local planning boards and says stable real estate and healthier communities come from informed citizens he calls the country’s foremost statistician economist and forecaster.
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Beckler
Greece
Rome
Athens
Earvy Dimes
Paris
Washington
D. C
Canberra
Ankara
Roger W. Babson
Beckley
K Men War Stationed in Sicily Heroes Listed in Beckley News
Sergeant Deen Thurman son of Mr and Mrs P A Thurman of Beckley served in Sicily after training at Fort Thomas and North Africa. His brother Delbert is in the Pacific. Other local service members include Private Jack Worley in North Africa and Private A B McClure in Africa. New recruits at Great Lakes include twelve Raleigh county men headed for nine day leaves after recruit training.
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Sicily
Deen Thurman
P. A. Thurman
Carter Street
Beckley
Thurman
Fort Thomas
Kentucky
North Africa
Woodrow Wilson High School
Bliss College
Columbus
Ohio
Dr. Pepper Bottling
Radioman
Delbert Thurman
Navy
South Pacific
Atlantic
Pacific
Radioman Thurman
Naval Service
Norfolk
Virginia
ORD
Ira Worley
Glen White
Jack Worley
United States Army
Worley
Camp Wheeler
Georgia
Fort. George G. Meade
Maryland
Jack T. Worley
A.P.O
New York
A. B. McClure
Mary McClure
McClure Street
McClure
Carl Boy
Chesapeake and Ohio
Raleigh Yard
Army
Camp Claiborne
Louisiana
Fort Sam Houston
Texas
C. L. McClure
MacArthur
Bruce Carper
Park Avenue
Earl E. Ellison
Linda Ellison
Fireco
England
Ellison
Iceland
Beard’s Fork
W. W. Ellison
Los Angeles
California
United States Naval Training Station
Great Lakes
Ilinois
Raleigh County
Charles Schmidt, Jr
Ameagle
William B. Stevenson
Dielee Taylor
Besoco
Vergil E. Clark
Daniels
Ross McGinnis
Dry Creek
Morris Harvey
East Beckley
Frank A. Atkinson
Cecil A. Riddle
D. W. Riddle
Calloway Heights
Camp McCoy
Wisconsin
385Th Infantry
Iran
John Bolash
East Prince Street
Bolash
Crab Orchard Improvement Company
Eccles
Shorter family in Virginia figures in Raleigh county notes
The article recalls Douglas E. Shorter of Collins High School in Raleigh county, a Virginia Military Institute graduate from Callands, and notes his family’s strong ties to military service. It also mentions local figures and events including grapevine trimming, Pilot Officer William T. Bent of the Royal Canadian Air Force, and remarks on wartime reflections.
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Douglas E. Shorter
Callands
Pittsylvania County
Commonwealth
Virginia Military Institute
Lexington
Collins High School
Winding Gulf
Coal City
Epperly Hill
Shorter
G. Curtis Turner
Collins
Raleigh County
Uncle Sam
O. E. Shorter
Col
W. C. Shorter
West Point
J. O. Shorter
England
Col. Shorter
Major Shorter
London
Field Artillery
Army Air Corps
West Virginia
Beckley
William Harrison Tolbert
J. G. Foster
Kanawha Street
Monroe County
William T. Bent
Royal Canadian Air Force
Munich
Germany
Joe Dutton
Joe
St. Louis
Neville Chamberlain
Hitler
Canada
Woodrow Wilson High School
Marshall College
Harlem’s In The Money And Is Behaving With It
AP writer Clayton Irwin surveys Harlem during wartime prosperity amid housing strain and shifts in crime. He notes rising wages, bar spending, and bond purchases by residents while numbers gambling declines and juvenile delinquency rises in the war era Harlem. The piece cites Julius Adams and police observers on social changes and Father Divine’s Haven.
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Clayton Irwin
New York
Harlem
Lenox Avenue
Har Jen
Bethlehem Pentecostal Assembly
Julius Adams
Amsterdam Star-News
Adams
Police Department
New York City
Father Divine
Farmer Opposes Government Soil Subsidies in Open Letter
A Martinsburg letter by Henry W. Miller Jr. questions federal soil conservation payments as subsidies. Miller calls payments a dole, notes annual sums over $1,000 on properties in Maryland and West Virginia, and argues government money is wasted while war needs rise. He refuses further applications and urges Americans to avoid public funds for farming.
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Crockett Pittman
Crab Orchard
Glen White
Oliver
Associated Press
Martinsburg
Henry W. Miller, Jr
Paw Paw
West Virginia Horticulture Society
Miller
George C. Fields
Morgan County Agriculture Conservation Program Board
Fields
ACP
Millers
Allegheny County
Morgan
Hampshire Counties
W. Va
AAA
Avery
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Quentin R. Tall
Mont Hall
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Don Williams
Pemberton
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William Malcolm Lilly
A. Z. Lilly
North
United States Army Air Force
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5Th
Miami Beach
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Fort Worth
Randolph Field
Lilly
Virginia Polytechnic Institute
Blacksburg
Eastman Business College
Raleigh Smokeless Fuel Company
Elks Club
James Washington
Albertha Washington
Sprague
324Th Quartermater Service Company
Camp Breckinridge
Infantry Rtc
Bruce Malon
Sophia
Quartermaster
Camp Lee
Robert J. Berman
Alex Michael
Army Air Forces
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Mississippi
Vernle E. Sydenstricker
Cecil A, Riddle
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Harold Riffe
Claude Worley
Panjandrum
Marsh Fork High School
Sidney P. Daniel
Heat and Light
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Republican Executive Committee
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