Principle Is Scrapped Over Miners Fines and Vacation
A June 29 letter from Harold Ickes to the Southern Coal Producers Association clarifies the operators position in the wage agreement dispute. It notes operators sought a shortened vacation and offered to sign a modified agreement if fines from a 1941 strike were arbitrated. The piece argues John L Lewis blocked arbitration, claiming the principle was sacrificed for coal production, with limited gains for labor.
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Harold Ickes
Southern Coal Producers’ Association
Mr. Ickes
United Mine Workers
United States
Ickes
John L. Lewis
Beckley farmer-merchant Armstrong lays hog facts on pork crunch
Beckley merchant Ed Armstrong, a University of Kentucky agriculture graduate, explains hog production trends and government controls shaping the wartime pork shortage. He cites 1942 pig crops totaling 105 million and notes government priority on pork and lard, plus future likely strict controls after the war.
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Beckley
E. D. Armstrong
Armstrong
Cool Ridge
United States
Russia
England
New Deal
Chicago
Ed Armstrong
University of Kentucky
Rainy Days And Canning Sugar Records In Raleigh County
June canning allotments of 135401 pounds in Raleigh County aid families against winter shortages. Experts note sugar to fruit ratios, processing losses reduce final yields, while July and August will boost preserves. Local conditions, climate, and political jabs finish the summer lull.
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Raleigh County
Red Returns Home as Mary Lee Grieves in Silence
Mary Lee cannot move as Red bursts in, kissed and cradled in a reunion scene. He speaks of the long absence with familiar warmth while Jake battles hunger and worry in Fulton City, leaving a sleeping patient at a doctor's office during a tense moment.
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Mary Lee
Red
Jake
Peggy
Mary
Peg
Jake Forrester
Fulton City
Pilots sought as wartime air program expands training
The Civil Aeronautics Administration launches a broad pilot training push under Acting Administrator C. S. Stanton. With 650 flying schools, it aims to train about 180,000 student pilots yearly, integrating them into the Air Force Reserve and assigning them to instructors, glider pilots, service and liaison pilots, or airline copilots. The program opens to men aged 18 to 37, with physicals but less stringent than combat pilot standards.
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Jack Stinnett
Washington
Air Corps
Sam
Civil Aeronautics Administration
C. S. Stanton
CAA
HESE
Army
Navy
Civil Air Patrol
Night Dining with Coons Beneath George Washington Bridge
A vivid New York city vignette describes a colony of wild coons living under the George Washington Bridge on the New Jersey side. The scene centers on a Riviera nightclub setting where coons are fed by attentive staff as patrons dine, watch river traffic, and reflect on urban wildlife, moonlit scenery, and a fading era of riverboats.
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New York
George Washington Bridge
New Jersey
Ben Marden
Riviera
Wisconsin
Pancho
Coonskins
Ater
Hudson
Harry Carey on the set of Sturges surgical drama
In a Boston operating room, Harry Carey endures a troubled shooting day for Preston Sturges cinema as William Morton’s anesthesia method fails on camera. The cast, including Joe McCrea Grady Sutton Franklin Pangborn and Bill Demarest, wrangle with timing and diction while the director sharpens inflection and gestures. After many takes, Carey finally earns applause and hopes for future outdoors with a horse.
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Boston
Preston Sturges
William Morton
William
Joe McCrea
Harry Carey
Harvard
Grady Sutton
Doc Carey
Harry
Gethsemane
McCrea
Bill Demarest
Sturges
Men O War In the News Richmonds Army Transfers
Private First Class Robert G. Richmond graduates aviation radioman school in Jacksonville and is stationed in San Diego after transfer. He is son of Mrs Garnet Richmond of Hull Street and a Woodrow Wilson High School cheerleader. Four Raleigh County youths report to duty in Kentucky after induction. Hobart A. Scott, Theodore R. Pryor, Lester R. Steele Jr., and Roy C. Hawkins are named. Corporal Bill Thompson enjoys swimming on a Pacific island but must chase away large ocean life before each dip.
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aviation radioman_ school
Jacksonville
Florida
Robert G. Richmond
San Diego
California
Garnet Richmond
Hull Street
Woodrow Wilson High School
Brom Fort Thomas
Kentucky
Raleigh County
Hobart A. Scott
East Beckley
Greenbrier Military School
Glo-Gora Coal
Red Dragon
Theodore R. Pryor
Fanny Pryor
McAlpin
McAlpin Coal Company
Lester R. Steele, Jr
Janice Steele
Big Stick
Lillybrook Coal Company
Roy C. Hawkins
Cranberry
Sidney E. Hankins
New River Coal Company
Pacific
Bill Thompson
Luca Thompson
Thompson
Hawaiian Islands
West Virginia
Panama
Canal Zone
Jess W. Martin
T. O. Martin
Cunard
Martin
Camp Shelby
Mississippi
Fort Clayton
Ousted Nazi Army Chief Reinstated Report
The Daily Mail reports Adolf Hitler reinstated Field Marshal Walther von Brauchitsch as army chief, citing a Stockholm correspondent. No confirmation exists. neutrals in Stockholm brought the claim. Brauchitsch had been ousted last December with Hitler taking direct command of the general staff.
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Associated Press
London
The
Daily Mail
Adolf Hitler
Walther von Brauchitsch
Stockholm
Berlin
von Brauchitsch
Hitler
Russia
Rumors of Nazi High Command Shake Ups After Hitler Takeover
Since the December announcement that Hitler assumed military leadership of the armed forces by his own dictates, rumors persist of major reshuffles in the Nazi high command.
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Hitler
Soldiers' Wives Can't Get Divorce
Reporting a rise in divorces filed between the May and August terms of circuit court, the clerk's office noted many soldiers cannot be sued for divorce. Forty five new cases filed since May term and 19 other suits, compared with 41 new divorces and 15 suits last year.
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Cirecuit Court
Negro Dies at 56 in Beckley Hospital
Robert Booker a 56 year old Black man from Mount Hope died last evening at Beckley Hospital after several days illness. Hospital staff cited heart trouble as the cause of death.
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Robert Booker
Mount Hope
Beckley Hospital
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France
Besancon
George Tucker
Maine
Hollywood
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