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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1944
Page
4
Mullens city officials propose two new comfort stations to serve the public, noting Beckley lacks suitable rest rooms. The piece urges improving sanitary, comfortable facilities for families visiting the region, ideally planned by the new planning commission for postwar development and city council consideration.
War department reports only four percent of wounded die due to drugs plasma and hospital care. Red Cross ambulances, papers protect medicines. A reader recalls a 1914 panther sighting in Logan county Ethel town. Mrs Mankin learns her husband was slightly wounded before a War Dept telegram labeled seriously wounded, likely due to timing and non combat days.
DeWitt MacKenzie notes General Fisenhower's warning that battles will be fought on German soil. Allies mass forces for a western invasion while Russians push from the east. Hitler calls up reserves for the Siegfried line and Oder fortifications, possibly delaying a wholesale invasion but signaling hard fighting ahead.
President Roosevelt ordered seizure of six Monongalia county mines and added new operators to the federal list amid a wave of further walkouts. About 2,100 workers at these mines, producing 12 thousand tons daily, return to operation tomorrow while 950 more in nearby mines join the strike over union recognition. Additional mines in Morgantown area were added to the seizure list, signaling a major government intervention in the coal dispute and possible expansion of takeovers across Pennsylvania and West Virginia.
Roger Thorndyke's secretary reports the cleaning crew is under control as water, heat, and meals are arranged. The owner is expected end of week while workers number ten to twelve. Susan meets Aunt Sarah in Thorndyke's private office amid family tensions and a bitter exchange over the Corboy and Scarbrough feud.
The piece weighs De Gaulle’s likely choices for France’s future, between recovery with strong governance or prolonged weakness, and potential alignments with Russia or the UK, contrasted with Roosevelt and US ties. It also recounts a domestic anecdote about rationing delays amid WW II shortages and bureaucratic waste.
Bill Barrett former Raleigh Register sports editor returns from Fort Knox and says he works in the same office as Major Ted McDowell former Beckley Post-Herald editor. He is visiting his mother Mrs Harriet Barrett and sister Miss Betty Barrett.
Survivors recount a German attack on a village where women and children hid in a church. SS troops used improvised ladders to fire through windows and hurled phosphorous grenades, turning buildings into a bonfire. Many died, including infants, with bodies buried in common graves. crucifixes melted by heat. The burning was not a reprisal for German deaths, and a Gestapo general allegedly ordered it.
New seizures raise government controlled mines to 33 as walkouts by supervisory workers press for union recognition. Four more mines struck after 15 mines were taken yesterday, lifting miners idle to 7,000. NRC votes planned at one Pennsylvania and 12 West Virginia mines for clerical supervisory unit recognition.
Sandys saluted Lt Gen Carl Spaatz and US and RAF air forces for destroying robot launch sites and depots since 1943. More than 100000 tons of bombs dropped on targets in France and Germany. Attacks cost 450 planes and 2900 airmen, with American batteries supplying about one eighth of heavy anti aircraft guns over the south coast. Mining long a Latin American industry is noted as ancient practice.
American units moved farther east along the Saone and Doubs valleys, occupying Poligny Arbois and Bletterans and advancing toward Chaumergy near the Doubs. The main German force position remained unclear as Allied ships bombarded targets along the Riviera and ferried out of Toulon Marseille harbors.
Patton’s forces restart the offensive after a slow start as infantry clear a path for tanks. Germans claim firm defense, but Allied strength builds for a border crossing and a final battle through the Reich. British drive into Halland hidden. Gent and Courtrai captured. Armentieres falls. Lys line breached. Boulogne edging toward Allied reach on Channel coast. Canadians reach Boulogne outskirts.
A special house unit was formed to plan the nation's agricultural future and move farmers toward a business like system. Rep. Pace of Georgia was named chairman by Chairman Fulmer of the House Agriculture Committee. Support from Rep. Hope stressed farming's postwar importance.
New York C I O P A C establishes a radio monitoring system to report and analyze labor issue presentation. C B Baldwin assistant chairman says special attention will focus on major network newscasters and commentators and on how labor and PAC activities are covered on network and local broadcasts.
Trooper Charles H. Padden left Beckley for Logan to substitute for Trooper R. G. Norman who was granted leave for a five month traffic school at Northwestern University. Logan vacancy to be permanent, Padden previously served 22 months in Logan before Beckley 1938.
Dewey visiting Independence Hall discusses foreign policy and peace efforts. He plans an off the record conference with rural and weekly newspaper publishers before a formal speech then travels to Louisville to address the National Federation of Republican Women. He cites Dumbarton Oaks progress toward a nonpartisan peace framework and praises recent talks between John Foster Dulles and Secretary Hull as a unity sign.
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