War board to defer needed farm workers in 1943
Hayes Cook announces Wyoming county U S D A war board will approve deferments for essential farm workers and appeal local board denials. The board will recommend deferment based on units of essential farm products produced, farm help available, and farming importance to the war effort ahead of planting time.
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Pineville
Wyoming County
U.S.D.A
Cook
Selective Service Board
Appeal Board
War Board
Allied airmen press attack past weather over New Guinea convoy
Allied airmen persist with attacks despite bad weather to wipe out the 22 ship Japanese convoy. Wewak lies 370 miles north of Port Moresby as air operations target Raaf bay Salamaua and Mubo areas. The Bismarck Sea convoy was destroyed and about 15,000 Japanese troops and many aircraft were lost in that three day battle. One Japanese plane was shot down near Babo.
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Wewak
Port Moresby
New Guinea
Bismarck Sea
Raaf Bay
Dutch New Guinea
Salamaua
New Britain
Mubo
Lae-Salamaua
Babo
John L. Lewis Reelected Head Of UM.W.A.
John L. Lewis was reelected to a 12th term as international president of the United Mine Workers. He ran unopposed in the December 8 election, with John O Leary and Thomas Kennedy also reelected as vice president and secretary treasurer, as wage conferences with bituminous operators continued.
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Associated Press
New York
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Union Today
Lewis
John O'Leary
Thomas Kennedy
Man Convicted Of Selling Wine
Pineville case reports Glen Rogers resident Alex Darabin pleading guilty to selling wine to minors. Magistrate W B Wilson fined him 50 dollars plus costs and jailed him 60 days. Evidence showed two boys paid Darabin to buy wine, and he bought a bottle for them without giving change, making him guilty of selling to minors. A one year probation was ordered subject to Judge Easley’s approval during the April term.
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Register
Witter
Darabin
D. M. Easley
Washington lawmakers weigh new war powers proposal
The article notes a group of Democratic and Republican senators led by Truman Hill Pepper Ball Austin Burton and others as well as Republican Leader McNary considering a White House conference Sunday. Chairman Connally of the foreign relations committee did not influence the draft.
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Bama
Truman
D.-Mo
Kentucky
Hill
Ala
Hatch
D.-N.m
Pepper
D.-Fla
Ball
R.-Minn
Austin
R.-Vt
Burton
Ohio
McNary
Oregon
White House
Connally
D.-Tex
Foreign Relations Committee
Morgan Death Ends an Era of Global Finance
York announced Morgan's death as private plans formed to ship the body to New York for a 10 a.m. service at St. George's Episcopal Church on Tuesday. He would be buried beside his wife in Hartford, Conn. The Morgan firm had already prepared for succession under Thomas W. Lamont while markets reacted calmly to the news. The aging banker, famed for assembling a 2 360-bank syndicate to fund Allied governments in World War I, is remembered as a rugged individualist who kept his firm steady through the postwar era.
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New York
St. George's Episcopal Church
iMorgan
Hartford
Hartford, Conn
Jane Norton
Morgean
Morgan
Wall Street
Associates
House of Morgan
Thomas W. Lamont
J. Pierpont Morgan
Great Britain
Wee
Wyoming court set to convene April 13 with drawn jurors
Jurors for the April term of court have been drawn as clerk John Lambert announces. The grand jury will be drawn once Judge D. M. Bailey designates. The list includes many names from Baileysville Pineville Rockview Hanover Oceana Mullens Maben and other towns across the district, with jurors spanning diverse communities.
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Register
Pinneville
John 8. Lambert
Circuit Court
D. M. Bailey
O. V. Bailey
Baileysville
Bee Aliff
Roy Blankenship
Wyoming
Blaine Shields
Lacy Bailey
Edgell Bowling
Bernard Milam
Herndon
Curtis Lusk
W. H. Monk
Basin
C. W. Fitzwater
Covel
W. O. Gearheart
Willie Akers
Lamar
Victor Rominson
Negro
Covell
A Carl
Browning
Rockview
John Cook
Frank Farley
Pineville
Alda Green
John Pendry
Keyrock
John Work
Dock Vance
Hanover
Elbert Cook
Jesse
J. S. Nunn
Oceana
Clifford Trent
Mason Cook
W. L. Bailey
Kopperston
John Mathey
B. B. Bailey
Jersey Jackson
Westo
Glen
Mullens
James Brooks
Glen Fork
W. H. Halsey
Maben
John C. Trump
Ravencliff
Bill Bower
W. B. Birchfield
Holt heads five man panel to probe state expenditures
Holt, a Lewis county delegate and foe of the governor, leads a five member House committee to investigate state expenditures. A joint Senate inquiry was voted down after the session, while Holt claims misused funds and favors, pointing to alleged overpayments for the Steubenville bridge and profits by Cabell county figures. He cited a $130 million check to a 21 year old for the bridge and accused political manipulation.
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Holt
Lewis County
House
Senate
Ike Old Sweet Springsuberculosis
Steubenville
West Virginia
Steubenville Bridge
Cabell County
Portrait of a Quiet Benefactor and Collectors’ Gentleness
A refined figure who valued wealth through simple pleasures. He enjoyed yachting, gardening, modest card games, and reading the classics and Bible. Reserved in public, he relaxed with close friends and cherished gifting tea from China at Christmas.
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China
Author Stephen Vincent Benet Dies at 44
The Associated Press reports New York author Stephen Vincent Benet died at his home after a brief illness. The poet and story writer, born July 22, 1898 in Bethlehem Pennsylvania, won the 1929 Pulitzer Prize for poetry for John Brown's Body.
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Associated Press
New York
Stephen Vincent Benet
Farrar and Reinhart
Benet
Bethlehem
John Brown
Gardening Will Be Taught In School
PINEVILLE A meeting of the U S D A war board in the A A A office Friday afternoon at 2 30 for the school victory garden program was held. Attendees Hayes Cook chairman George F Brown Judson Blake and Relly Fenner. The committee approved plans to teach gardening in public schools with material from the U S D A war board and teaching methods by the teacher planning board chaired by George F Brown. They approved instructional data on four work types and steps for sail boxes fertilizer and cultivation plus two Brown work units on planting and cultivation of potatoes.
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Register
Pineville
U.S.D.A. War Board
A.A.A
Hayes Cook
George F. Brown
Judson Blake
Relly Fenner
Teacher Planning Board
Brown
Frasure Visits Pineville OPA Office on Tour
Dr Carl M Frasure state director of the OPA visited the Pineville rationing office while touring regional boards accompanied by Thomas J Schoefield state rationing officer and Mr Conley field representative A brief conference was held with Harley Christian chairman and Virgil H Stewart superintendent of schools It was their first visit to the local office.
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Register
Pineville
Carl M. Frassure
O.P.A
Thomas J. Schoefield
Conley
Harley Christian
Virgil H. Stewart
Frasure and
Schoefield
Miners Alarmed by WLB Plan in Ongoing Contract Fight
Caddy argues 850 million tons of coal cannot emerge from U S mines using force rather than collective bargaining. He urges negotiation to meet government expectations for 943. The WLB formula is labeled unjust to miners, threatening strikes if no new contract by March 31. District leaders warn uncertain mine outcomes without a new agreement as Southern owners seek a two-work-stoppage pledge.
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America
W.L.B
Minstrel Show Repeats in Fayette County
Claude R Hill of Oak Hill announces a repeat of the successful Beckley minstrel for Fayette and Raleigh Red Crosss. Show set for Oak Hill High School auditorium Friday March 26 at 8 15 pm with tickets on sale across Fayette communities. Original cast rehearses 2 15 pm at Memorial building Beckley.
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Fayette County
Beckley
Mars
Claude R. Hill
Oak Hill
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Fayette
Raleigh
Lions Clubs
Morm! Hope
Gauley Bridge
Winona
J. Wilbur Davis
Memorial Building
Russian Front Battles Rattle War News Review
Conflicting reports describe a heavy Red Army world war front with a German counteroffensive. Red Star and Pravda portray grim, stubborn battles as Soviets gain on Smolensk while Kharkov remains contested. News notes German tanks and Soviet cavalry clash, losses reported on multiple sectors along the central and northwest fronts.
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Pravda
Kharkov
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Berlin
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Frieda McClung Will Wed James P Quarles
Frieda McClung of Charleston to wed James P Quarles of Springdale and Charleston. The wedding is planned for early spring. The bride is a nurse at DuPont Company Belle, Delaware. The groom is a Lehigh University chemical engineering graduate and chemist at the DuPont plant.
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James P. Quarles
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H. W. McClung
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Curtis Quirres
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Ure
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Lehigh Universiy
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Guerrillas of Fayette and French youth death report
Conditions worsen in France as Nazi authorities take over youth labor draft for a German war effort. Reports from Haute Savoie describe mobile guards and armed actions against guerrilla bands led by a French army officer. Young Frenchmen flee forced labor. Germans reportedly conscripted boys as young as 10 to 15 for the Todt structure, while some workers resist, flee or protest. The Lausanne press notes recruitment at France de Bordeaux and Petit Parisienne offices, with increased difficulty in rounding up workers. In Fayette County, Dr. JO Henderson, 79, longtime physician and civic figure, dies at home after over 40 years of service. He founded Henderson Drug Store and led the Montgomery National Bank board before retiring in 1924. survived by widow and son.
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Associated Press
Bern
Switzerland
France
Geneva
Haute Savoie
Tribune de Geneve
France de Bordeaux
Bordeaux
Petit Parisienne
Tit Alias
Balkans
Italy
Absovidterd
Montgomery
Jo, Henderson
Fayette County
Northumberland County
Henderson
Henderson Drug Store
Ortest
Montgomery National Bank
Br Hendarson
Front reports Axis positions and Tunisian bottleneck
A wartime dispatch notes heavy fighting as Axis forces hammer at Palermo Camiso and Porto Empedocle in Sicily while observing a weakness west of Gabes. Montgomery’s armored divisions, with 25 round batteries, press along the Mareth line after advancing from Egypt, aiming to seal the sea‑to‑hills corridor.
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Aretheine Pasitions
Palermo
Camiso
Porto
Luft raid damage and German resolve over Essen blast
Air service reports heavy damage from incendiary and high explosive bombs in industrial districts outside Krupp. Pilots returning from Essen raid described smoke and fires reaching 100 feet as ground defenses strengthened since the prior raid. One pilot said Germans were determined that the attackers wouldn’t get through.
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Air Ministrs
Krupp
Essen
Hue
Allied air forces boost impact against German tanks
The article notes new German armor including heavy Mark V tanks and 88 mm anti tank guns facing Allied air power. It claims coordinated Allied air force operations over the western fronts have step up, forcing Axis to endure intensified punishment. It also reports the Wallington communique claiming Allied ships and a destroyer were hit during raids on convoys near Bone and Philippeville in Algeria with numerous Allied planes shot down.
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Bone Aud
Philippevaile
Algeria
Luftwaffe raids near Essen exceed past attacks in power
Reports describe heavy Allied air raids crossing the Dutch coast on the return from Essen, noting about 125 miles from the city. Authorities compare the latest assault to the thousand bomber raids, but say the current force carries larger payloads and more destructive explosive power per pound than in earlier Essen operations.
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