Raleigh Register publication details and staff note
The Raleigh Register records indicate publication details and staff roles. It lists Beckley Newspapers Corporation as publisher with post office entry at Beckley and Hinton West Virginia and credits The Associated Press for news dispatches.
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Beckley Newspapers Corporation
Beckley
W. Va
Hinton
Patie Seale
W. Randolph Norton
Vue la
Associated Press
A Good Bargain for Raleigh County Airport Bond
An editorial argues the airport bond issue is a small tax burden for Raleigh County homeowners. It claims a $1000 assessed home pays 15 cents yearly for ten years, a $5000 home about 70 cents, and urges citizens to support securing an ideal airport site in West Virginia to attract future air commerce and federal upgrades.
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Raleigh County
West Virginia
Raleigh
Kanawha County
Beckley Market Proposal Urged For Objective Study
The city council sent back to the chamber of commerce and Farm Bureau a plan for a Beckley city market where farmers would sell produce directly to housewives. The paper urges a formal, impartial market survey by federal and university researchers to appraise local marketing needs.
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Beckley
Chamber of Commerce and Farm Bureau
Register
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Hiuntington
West Virginia University School of Agriculture
Huntington
Beckley Market Survey Aims to Present Facts for Community
The survey seeks an unbiased view of the Beckley marketing situation, avoiding farmer or merchant leaning. It emphasizes gathering complete facts before any market proposal decisions are reached and stresses the community-wide relevance rather than individual or special-group interests.
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Beckley
Company stores under scrutiny in coal wage debate
A(M)”mining towns shift from company stores as travel improves. John L. Lewis claims prices in coal regions rose 126 percent prompting investigations by OPA and Ickes. The UMWA notes miners can shop elsewhere and asserts stores offer credit during outages, shaping wage and living-cost discussions.
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West Virginia
Ickes
Ickés
O.P.A
Ualw.a
C Cmpany
Senate Tax Bill Faces Conference Scrutiny and Changes
The Senate plan to skip a year income tax may be pared in conference with the House. If allowed to stand, it would tax abatements, withholdings, and adjustments affecting single and married filers, dependents, and wage earners, with quarterly payments and exemptions detailed.
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Senate
Armed Services
Washington signals and cloth rationing clash in wartime plea
A letter ridicules political talk on the Potomac about drafting fathers and clothing rationing. The writer urges action over talk, mocks seasonal fashion rules, and calls for total war effort participation, arguing Washington should “lay on” and stop delaying.
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Potomac
Papas
Uncle Sam
S. M. Bledsoe
Washington
McDuff
Thirteen Train Cars In Wreck Near Marriottsville
Thirteen freight cars plunged from the Baltimore and Ohio tracks near Marriottsville Maryland and caught fire. Officials reported no injuries. Fire units from Ellicott City Woodstock and nearby towns fought the flames as part of a 59 car train traveling from Brunswick to Baltimore. The cause was under investigation and some cars remained burning two hours after the crash. Two cars were auto carriers.
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Associated Press
Marrioltysville
Baltimore and Ohio
Ellicott City
Woodstock
Brunswick
Baltimore
Public Forum Letter From Piney View Coal Miners
A reader from Piney View West Virginia writes about labor unions and miners rights. He praises Mr Lewis and criticizes Roosevelt era policy, urging miners to support government actions and back troops. He reflects on past coal field industry changes and stresses solidarity.
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Raleigh Register
Lewis
UM W.A
Roosevelt
U. 1
Dohn
Wheel of Industry
Union
Mr. Lewis
Mabscott Youth Enlists in Navy Recruitment
Edward Earl Fink 17 of Mabscott was accepted as an applicant for enlistment by the local Naval Recruiting station. He will report to the Huntington induction station for examination soon. A quota of eleven specialists for recruiting duty as shore patrolmen is open for enlistment with three to receive second class petty officer ratings and eight third class ratings.
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Edward Earl Fink
Mabscott
Theovy
Fink
Huntington
F. J. Rumbaugh
West Virginia
Souvenirs From the South Pacific and Local Service News
The Register highlights Raleigh county servicemen including Corporal Pete Sparacino of Mahlscoil and his family who sent a three foot square Jap flag items from Guadalcanal. It notes promotions and assignments of Sparacino siblings and Sergeant Ernest Saunders with China service and family ties to the Wo men’s Army Auxiliary corps. Also mentioned are Private First Class Charles Sparacino and others from West Virginia units overseas and at Fort Lewis and Fort Thomas. Captain Joe L Smith Jr overseas with a career beginning in 1941 and related officers.
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Raleigh
Register
South Pacific
Sam Sparacino
Mahbscoil
Pete Sparacino
Guadalcanal
Sparacino
Charles V. Sparacino
United States Army
Washington, D. C
Andrew Sparacino
Army
Panama
Tony Sparacino
United States Coast Guard
Cedar Keys
Florida
China
Ernest Saunders
C. E. Saunders
Harper Road
Saunders
Army Air Force
India
States
Langley Field
Virginia
Bolling Field
Washington
D. C
Scott Field
Uwlineis
Sergeant Saunders
Charles Wayne Saunders
Norma Saunders
Women's Army Auxiliary Corps
Pennsylvania
Collins High School
Montgomery Moore
Slab Fork
Charles KF. Weaver
Cranberry
Fort Thomas
Kentucky
563Rd Quartermaster Service Battalion
Fort Lewis
Joe L. Smith
Beckley
Smith
Officers School of Infantry
Fort Benning
Georgia
Chief of Staff
Command and General Staff School
Fort Leavenworth
Kansas
Landa Faces a Perilous Jungle Rescue at Sea Cave
Landa, pursued by armed fugitives, steals O Shannessey s pistol from Maria and heads toward the pirates cave to warn Don and Jim. Torn between love for Jim and duty to Don, she races through the jungle as Hansen’s raid unfolds and a fatal shot ends in dawn light.
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Landa
Senorita
Maria
O'Shaunessey
O'Shannessey
Mike
Ganda
Don
Jim
Hansen
Jim Blair
O’shannessey
Six Victim Dies in Carbide Plant Disaster
Charles Alfred Phillips, 25, dies in hospital as sixth victim of theExplosion at the Carbide and Carbon Chemicals plant in South Charleston. Nine others remain hospitalized or injured, with ongoing efforts to recover. A separate note says President Roth plans to visit Berkeley Springs May 24 to discuss proposed improvements funded by a 1943 legislative appropriation. US war department lists three West Virginia prisoners of war from the state.
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Associated Pres
Charleston
Charles Alfred Phillips
Carbide and Carbon Chemicals Corporation
Robert F. Roth
State Board of Control
Berkeley Spring
West Virginia Foundation
Associated Press
Washington
War Department
West
Local service members receive promotions and duty updates
JENNIS M. LEARY JR a Beckley native in the United States naval reserve is promoted from lieutenant junior grade to lieutenant senior grade after reporting for duty in Norfolk on April 20 1942. Dennis Leary Jr and Johnny Wilburn are noted in England with the army air force quartermaster corps and a Mabscott corporal returns from furlough to Georgetown Delaware. Aviation Cadet J L Hinchey of Mount Hope will earn wings and a commission as second lieutenant in the army air force in May at Altus Oklahoma.
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Sam Hyslop
A. P. Hyslop
Robson
United States Army
Camp Phillips
Kansas
Corporal Hyslop
Army
Beckley
Robson and
Harewood
Semet-Solvey Company
Jennis M. Leary, JR
United States Naval Reserve
North Africa
Leutenant
Navy
Leary
Norfolk
Virginia
Washington, D. C
Yorktown
Boston Massachusetts
New York
Armed Forces
C. C. Wilburn
Anjean
Dennis Leary
Johnny Wilburn
Johnny” Wilburn
England
United States Army Air Force Quartermaster Corps
Wilburn
Frank Halstead
Morrison Field
West Palm Beach
Florida
Orporal Herman Miller
Tom Miller
Mabscott
Georgetown
Delaware
Fort Hancock
New Jersey
Georgestown
Corporeal Miller
Crab Orchard Improvement Company
Eccles
J. L. Hinchey
G. L Hinchey
Mount Hope
United States Army Air Force
Advanced Flying School
Altus
Oklahoma
Hinchey
Ohio
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Randolph
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