Raleigh County Court Eyes Park Bond Vote Nex t Step
The Raleigh County Court weighs including a Negro recreation park in a proposed bond issue election. A final decision comes today. The move aims to secure a strong Negro vote and fulfill long held requests for a park akin to Four H on Beaver Creek, with white support implied to aid funding for a memorial airport.
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Raleigh
Our
Beaver Creek
Raleigh County
William Clark
Elliott High School
Board of Education
Memorial Airport
Drive Safely During Holiday Weekend Traffic
West Virginia warns motorists to slow down and follow traffic laws as the extended holiday weekend begins Friday and many travelers hit the roads. Officials cite speeding and wrong-way driving as leading accident causes and urge extra caution to reduce weekend mishaps.
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West Virginia Department of Public Safety
West Virginia
History repeats itself warns Raleigh County drivers
In Raleigh County the speaker notes that mishaps may occur and residents could be injured or killed. The message urges careful driving to avoid becoming an unfortunate victim.
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Raleigh County
Public ownership not the solution for now says editor
The piece argues against nationalizing coal mines railroads and electric utilities citing TVA as a successful public project but warns government control led to rail and coal mine problems in World War I and postwar strikes. It cautions nationalization risks and references Britain as a cautionary example.
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America
TVA
Southland
Washington
Great Britain
Community seeks funds for donated land and recreation building
Residents rally in a public appeal, noting land and a recreation building have been donated and urging contributions to cover move and installation costs. The call to action emphasizes collective effort by the people to complete the project.
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Owen Rickard
Beckley Chamber of Commerce
W. §. Jackson
Jacksonville
Fla
Chamber of Commerce
Rickard
U. S
Washington
Daniel Webster
Chamber
From Beckley to Broadway to USO tours and back
Lydia Sessions known as Ditty left Beckley years ago to pursue ballet in New York. She joined a USO troupe touring Pacific Army camps and bases before returning home after the war. She later taught at Arthur Murray’s in New York City and recalled a naval doctor who vouched for her USO service.
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Lydia Sessions
H. C. Sessions
Leff Beckley
Big City
USO
Pacific
Ditty
New York
Fifth Avenue
Arthur Murray
Louis Sobol
J. Albert Avrack
Miss Sessions
Dr. Avrack
Forest Lawn: Southern California’s lively cemetery tour de force
Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale draws 1.5 million visitors yearly as a $55 million complex run by Dr. Hubert Eaton. It features babyland, a pastel mortuary, 200 statues, stained glass windows, a Garden of Life, a memorial court, and a seven level mausoleum. The site hosts interments and weddings, offers life insurance, prayer services, and lectures, aiming to be “Everything in one place.”
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Hal Boyle
Glendale
Calif
California
Iife
America
Hollywood
Forest Lawn Memorial Park
Hubert Eaton
Garden of Life
Eaton
Westminster Abbey
Gutzon Borglum
Carrie ‘Jacobs Bond
Forest Lawn
Marie Dresster
Flo
Ziegfeld
John, Gilbert
Edna
May Oliver
Lon Chaney
Russ Columbo
Tom Mix
Wallace Reid
Charles Ray
Ruth Roland
Chic Sale
Ben Turpin
Jean Harlow
Carole_Lombard
Golden Gate Bridge
San Fernando Valley
War Department Seeks New Streamlined Army Plan
The War Department outlines a sweeping reform agenda aimed at a postwar army. Key elements include competitive promotion, a career path to four star rank, universal uniforms, revamped infantry and armored divisions, air transport capable troops, and a shift to mobile, specialized units including radar and rocket warfare. The Army Air Forces are to be rebuilt around jet fighters and long range bombers, with funding debates in Congress. General Eisenhower warned that House budget cuts may threaten the program.
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Congress
House
Senate
Army
Army Air Forces
AAF
Senate Appropriations Committee
Eisenhower
Public Forum Ex Navy Man Supports Move to Cash GI Bonds
Ex Navy veteran argues in Public Forum that terminal leave pay should be cashable for enlisted men, not bonds, citing 8 years service and hardship. He contrasts officers and common sailors, notes the need for immediate funds, and recalls early 20th century Sicilian exports to the United States.
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Raleigh Register
Public Forum
George W. Hodel
U.S. Navy
Pacific
Mr. Hodel
G. J's
United States
Brook directs radical 1947 Romeo and Juliet in Stratford
Stratford headlined 1947 festival features Peter Brook directing Romeo and Juliet stripped of Victorian restraint. Lawrence Payne and Daphne Slater star as star crossed lovers with near barebedroom scenes praised for realism. Critics varied from praise to critique as the production aims to reveal Shakespeare’s meatier passions.
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Brook
Associated Press
Stratford-On-Avon
Peter Brook
Shakespeare Memorial Theater
Oxford
Sir Barry Jackson
Birmingham
Stratford
Sir Barry
Memorial Theater
Portugal
Verona
Laurence Payne
Daphne Slater
London
Young
Shakespeare
England
Julie
America
Martina's New Life at Waylands and a Friend's Faith
Martina settles into Waylands and discovers a growing independence while working with Mr. Allerton on the farm. She chats with Ann Amory about her soap star friends and plans a dinner with Cliff Neale Graddy Hueston, and Dr. Foster visits loom. A winter sleet drives Martina to town for voice treatment as tension rises.
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Waylands
Martina
Jodie Kendall
Julie
Tina
Mr. Allerton
Rose
Nancy
Laidlaws
Ann Amory
Anne
Powers
Clifford Neale
Ann
Wwe
Cliff Neale
Graddy Hueston
Cliff
Graddy
Augusta
Marital Tangles Hit Army Dependents Allowances
The Army Finance Center faces complex common-law marriage cases. A Maryland wife seeks a soldier’s allowance while a New Jersey wife also claims one, and a second marriage is contested as bigamy. The 1942 act pays dependents from a soldier’s pay, with rules for wives children and illegitimates, and the department notes many such disputes arise where marriages lack formal certificates. Major Moses Emmons heads the legal unit handling these issues.
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Associated Press
ST. Louis
Oregon
Baltimore, Md
New Jersey
Maryland
North Carolina
A Alsa i
Army
Legal Department of the Army
Finance Center
Robert J. Einstam
I A
Emmons
Moses Emmons
District of Columbia
Oklahoma
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James Marlow
Bard
Juliet
Paris
Rames
Helen R. Woodward
Eeeoes
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Allerton
Ime
Army Finance Department
Walter Gumps
Elton Mopes
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