Legionnaires Urged to Seek Preparedness For War
Royl L. McMillan national vice commander of the American Legion spoke at the state wartime conference urging universal draft in wartime, stressing preparedness for tomorrow and praising frontline victories while warning against complacency. He cited Corregidor and General Wainwright to condemn unpreparedness and urged continued home front effort.
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Royl L. McMillan
American Legion
Legion
Raleigh
North Carolina
McMillan
Presbyterian Church
Tates
State Department Executive Committee
Memorial
Meadows Predicts Victory For State's Demos In November
Judge Clarence W. Meadowy of Beckley, Democratic nominee for governor, in Charleston with campaign manager Okey Patterson and party leaders, predicted a hard clean campaign would yield a Democratic victory in the November election.
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Associated Press
Charleston
Clarence W. Meadowy
Beckley
Okey L. Patteson
Legion Wreck Inducts 25 Members At State Convention
About 25 new members joined the Legion secret group during a ceremony at the Memorial building auditorium. C. A. Tesch of Salem is state leader and G. N. Carroll of Kenova serves as secretary. An informal supper followed the initiation as officers set for elections in Room 10 tomorrow morning. Auxiliary activities began with a committee meeting and a tea honoring Gold Star Mothers.
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Memorial Building
A. Tesch
Salem
State I
Legion Auxiliary
First Presbyterian Church
Germans Reported In Mass Flight From The Balkans
London reports indicate German forces are fleeing the Balkans in large numbers. Bulgaria resumes peace efforts with Britain and the United States as American bombers hit Yugoslav rail lines and Soviet forces push west in Romania. Romania’s peace delegation, led by Lucretiu Pătrășvanu, awaits Moscow armistice terms while Bulgaria’s capitulation stalls due to a collapse of the Bagdanov government. A new Bulgarian government under Constantine Muraviev is claimed by the DNR but its Moscow acceptance remains uncertain.
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Associated Press
London
Balkans
Bulgaria
Britain
United States
Haly
Yugoslavia
Belgrade
Nis
Europe
Red Army
Romania
Hitler
Ger
Lucretiu Pateasvanu
Bagdanov
Cairo
DNR
Constantine Muraviev
Petko Stainov
Moscow
Roosevelt
Churchill
Germany
Stalin
Finland Quits War as Nazi Front Falters
Premier Hackzell announced Finland will withdraw from the war as Germany struggles to defend the homeland. He cited Soviet offensives and a worsening military picture for Germany, noting Finland sought a path to armistice without unconditional surrender. Mannerheim, Ryti, and Hackzell shaped the shift since Aug.
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Associated Press
London
Finland
Hanui
Jackzell
Russia
Hackzell
Stern
Rislo Ryti
Carl Gustav Mannerheim
Germany
Heavy Raid on Philippines Falls Short of Invasion Threat
General Douglas MacArthur announced a heavy raid on Davao in the southern Philippines Friday, destroying 38 Japanese planes and 26 fighters and 11 bombers on the ground. The attackers dropped 110 tons of explosives, with one Liberator shot down and two more downed by anti aircraft fire.
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Associated Press
Southwest Pacific
Davao
Philippines
Douglas Maclarthur
Tokyo Radio
Mindanao
MacArthur
Gen Giraud Shot by Drunk Sentry Near Oran
Gen Henri Giraud former Fighting French commander was shot outside his villa near Oran Algeria by a drunken Senegalese sentry. The bullet fractured some teeth but did not seriously injure him. In Whitesville Robert Williams 23 a Anchor Coal employee was crushed under a mine car at the operation near Whitesville leaving a widow and a son.
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Associated Press
London
Henri Giraud
Oran
Algeria
News Chronicle
Ser
Pillar Of State Has Fallen
Former Senator George W. Norris of Nebraska dies at 83 after a cerebral hemorrhage. President Roosevelt calls Norris a pillar of state and defender of popular rights while senators praise him as a champion of liberal causes and the Tennessee Valley Authority. Mrs Norris and three daughters at home in his absence.
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Associated Press
Washington
Roosevelt
George W. Norris
Nebraska
Norris
Chavez
NML
Russell
D.-Ga
United States
White
Maine
Senate
Associated Freecook
Congress
Tennessee Valley Authority
Red Army Reaches Bulgarian Border on Balkan Front
The Red Army pressed 65 miles toward the Balkan boundary southeast of Bucharest and reached the Bulgarian frontier along a 150 mile line from the Black Sea coast to Giurgiu. Moscow reported Axis losses totaling 418,000 killed or captured between Aug 20 and 31, with 97,100 Germans among the captured. Romanian forces reportedly struck into Transylvania and allied efforts pressured Hungarian-held areas as Soviet Ukraine armies claimed thousands of enemy dead and hundreds of thousands captured across 12 days of offensives.
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Associated Press
London
Red Army
Danube
Bucharest
Black Sea
Giurgiu
Moscow
Balkan
Stalingrad
East
Bulgaria
Hungary
Romania
Germany
Budapest
Transylvania
Marosvasarhely
Targu-Mares
Sfantul-Gheorghe
Krasny
Ghymes
Oituz
Carpathian Mountains
Danubian
Ukraine
Germany Might Fragment Before Surrender, AP Says
The Associated Press reports Allied leaders expect Germany to fall apart piecemeal, army by army, rather than surrender as a whole. Armistice terms already agreed by Russia, the U.S. and Britain call for indefinite military occupation. The path forward hinges on Roosevelt and Churchill’s imminent conference and the fate of postwar Europe.
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Associated Press
Washington
Germany
Russia
United States
Britain
Reich
No-Work Signs At Mines Reported
No work signs appeared at several mines in Raleigh County and nearby sections as U M W Aay hard leader George J. Titler said members were to report to work tomorrow. He noted some mines posted no-work notices and that workers would receive time and a half next Saturday if they had not worked. Most stores and city and county offices planned holidays, with only education offices remaining open.
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Raleigh County
District 29
George J. Titler
Titer
Yanks Trail Into Flanders Front as Belgium Falls
Allied advances near Brussels push toward the Flanders battlefields as two American columns seize the Belgian town of Tournai within 46 miles of the capital. German retreat opens the Reich frontier near the Saar. Belgians celebrate. Front dispatch notes drives toward Mons and northwest, with reports of civilian evacuations along the Rhine region.
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Associated Press
Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
Belgium
Tournai
Brussels
U.S
France
Flanders
Reich
Saar
Lorraine
Courtney H. Hodge
Don Whitehead
Mons
Berlin
Sweden
Fram
Rhine
Transocean
Maginot Line
Radio Atlantic
Americans push across Arno seize Pisa in Italian front relief
The American Fifth Army drove a new offensive across the Arno, broke the Gothic line, and captured Pisa after a rapid thrust four miles beyond the Sorcin river as British and Polish units opened a southern flank. Tito’s Partisans were reported entering Belgrade by British radio French-language broadcast.
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Rome
Fifth Army
Arno
Pisa
Eighth Army
Albert Kesseed
Brenner Pass
Ermalth
Adriatic
Historia Pisa
Kesselring
Sorcin
Belgrade
Pyove Woeyork
Marshal Tito
Belgrady
Weekend Warmth Grips West Virginia Weather
Pleasant weekend in West Virginia with warm sunny days and hot afternoon heat, followed by moderately warm moonlit nights. Weather outlook calls for continued mild evenings and daytime temperatures climbing, bringing overall dry and pleasant conditions.
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West Virginia
Nazis Impressed By Allied Dieppe Bravery
The Associated Press reports that even German observers praised Allied bravery at the Dieppe raid. They note Canadians British and Americans showed courage two years earlier and a French cemetery caretaker recalls 753 graves of those fallen. The Dieppe site overlooks the town and is well tended by locals.
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Dieppe
Oman
Foremen Balloting Threatens WV Coal Industry With Strikes
West Virginia faces a potential wave of strikes as foremen and supervisory crews vote on union recognition. Ballots are being cast in Monongalia Raleigh Wyoming Harrison and other counties under the Smith Connally act with the National Labor Relations Board supervision. Officials warn stoppages could curtail steel output and threaten war-time production while mine owners contend against increased concessions and wage demands.
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Charles E. Warder
Associated Press
Charleston
West Virginia
John G. Lewis
United Mine Workers
United Clerical, Technical and Supervisory Employes Union
Pennsylvania
U.M.W
Wester Pennsylvania
Eithier
West
Monomalia
Marshall
Ohin
Walk Ak
National Labor Relations Board
Valley Camp Coal Company
Pittsburgh
Elm Grove
Arkwright Coal Company
Mona
Morgantown
Nglr.b
Osage No. & Mine
Christopher Coal Company
Monongalia
Marign
Raleigh
Wyoming
Harrison
Abe Factus
Kentucky
Smme
Umion
JAMA
Marion County
Ohio
Portal Ta al
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Violet Feazell
Frank Halstead
Garnet Harvey
Feazelle
Gladys Davenport
Roy L. McMillan
T. H. McGavren
State Department
Ross S. Williams
Ohio State Department
Harley M. Kilgore
Ned H. Ragland
Honent
Meadows
Demos
Legion “Wreck
Reich Frontier
Gen. Giraud
Ascanistad Prac
Bulgarian
Japan
Singapore-Dutch Indies
Philippines- Formosa
Tiller
Flanders Battlefield
Patton
Siegfried Line
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