Raleigh Register Evening and Sunday Morning Note
The Raleigh Register announces publication details and editorial credits. Managing Editor W Randoph Norton leads local and Associated Press news, with exclusivity on AP dispatches. Local news coverage is presented by Beckley Newspapers Corporation in Beckley and Hinton West Virginia.
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Jobs by Lowering Taxes Proposal Postwar Plan
The Committee for Postwar Development led by C. L. Allen proposes a tax plan aimed at boosting job creation after the war. It favors reducing corporate taxes to leave profits for expansion, while implying a broader shift to fund government through graduated personal income taxes. The plan argues corporations, not individuals, should drive peacetime employment, warning government intervention if private capital cannot sustain demand.
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Ivestors
When This D War Ends Comes Home
A wartime opinion piece reflects on returning service members and the need for new opportunities at home. It envisions pilots and air service personnel building airports in their home county and urges the mountain region to welcome veterans back with real peacetime prospects.
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Pyttom
Europe
Raleigh
West Virginia
Airways
London
Berlin
War-weary home front longs for airport and growth
The speaker criticizes penny-pinching, urging reinvestment in durable earnings and permanent jobs. He laments delays to airport improvements and other needs, noting soldiers back home read newspapers and yearn for an end to the war.
Across the Atlantic Air War Reflects Transit Feat and Futures
The piece notes an average of 53 to 55 U.S. planes crossing the Atlantic daily in recent weeks, totaling over 20,000 Allied flights since the war began. It highlights the danger of noncommercial flights, the high success rate, and the broader implication for future transport across terrains. It also briefly mentions Japan’s position in Tokyo and war-weariness about ending hostilities.
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U.S
Atlantic
Two Big Questions for Senate on Postwar World
Stinnett notes two core issues shaping debate on the postwar League of Nations and U S role. How will big and little nations share power and who commands force against dictators. He cites Dewey Hull Connally and possible divisions over troop authority and executive war power. The public weighs whether Congress or the president leads.
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Dumbarton Oaks
Senate
Thomas &. Dewey
Hull
United States
Roosevelt
Council
British Commonwealth
League of Nations
Council of Smaller Nations
International League For Permanent Peace
China
Nicaragua
Mexico
Congress
Arthur HH
Vandenberg
Michigan
Versailles
War baby of 1944 stories span service across oceans
Multiple short briefs note U S Marines and sailors from West Virginia and nearby towns serving in World War II. Prince, 17, lands in the South Pacific after training at Parris Island Camp Lejeune and Camp Elliott. Cole heads to six months sea duty in the Pacific on a merchant ship. West, Lively cousins, Miller, Cooper, Neely and Wyant families report promotions, transfers, and battles from Guadalcanal to New Guinea and Hawaii.
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Pvt. Prince
Marine Corps
Parris Island
South Carolina
Camp LeJune
North Carolina
Camp Elliott
California
Woodrow Wilson High School
Adet
William Lee Cole
Coal City
States
Pacific
Merchant Marines
Collins High School
Cole
San Mateo
Wiliam Coe Jue
George Cole
Cole City
United States Marine Corps
Cherry Point
Harold C. Lively
T. F. Lively
Oak Hill
Pax
James L. Lively
S. G. Lively
Long Branch
Marines
Guadalcanal
Bougainville
South Pacific
Harold Lively
Pax High School
Harold
Hill Anderson Coal Company
James
Koppers Coal Company
Ames H. Miller
O. E. Miller
Stanley Street
New Guinea
Camp Wolters
Texas
Australia
Bowling Green Business College
Bowling Green
Kentucky
James Miler
Norfolk
Vic- Orin
Orin
Cooper
Pearl Harbor
Alva Cooper
Pineville
W. W. West
Don Straughan
Beckley
Midway
Coral Sea
Corporal Omar Cooper
India
Water Tender Cooper
Pineville High School
Harne B. Neely
Donald B. Neely
McAlpin
Rosa Lee Neely
Lanark
Marne Neely
Navy
Great Lakes
Chicago
Ilinois
Leslie’s
Myrtle Beltram
Cranberry
Sam
Carl Wyant
Camp Claibourne
Louisiana
Camp Blanding
Florida
John A. Wyant
Italy
Port John Wyant Land
Oregon
North Africa
John
United States
Fred W. Wyant
Hawaii
POW son’s proper address found after Red Cross effort
Grace Snead of Beckley learns the permanent prisoner of war address for her son Technical Sergeant Bill Snead from Col Howard Brees, after United States Senator Revercomb intervenes.Letters also report direct messages from Sgt Edward P Stansbury, missing in action over Germany, and Lt William Hawley’s long stream of V mail from France with hopes of home and victuals.
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Grace Snead
Beckley
Bill Snead
Red Cross
Howard Brefee
Washington
Chapman Revercomb
United States
West Virginia
P. G. Meador
Charleston
R. E. Turner
Revercomb
Germany
Herbert Stansbury
Edward P
Shan) Stansbury
Wm. B. Hawley
Lucy Hawley
Woodlawn Avenue
France
Hollywood
Luftwaffe
Blood of 20 Centuries Stain Reich in War History
AP News reflects on centuries of conflict in Germany from 843 Verdun division to Napoleon era. It tracks Holy wars and religious strife within the empire, Prussia Austria clashes, and the evolving German confederation up to Vienna 1815.
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Caesar
Rhine
B. C
Germany
Reich
Europe
Verduni
Charles the Great
Louis
Hungary
Austria
Maria Theresa of Austria
Bavaria
Frederick the Great
Silesia
Napoleon
Frederick William
Prussia
Russia
Enchantment Night Ends With Susan and Erich
Susan confronts Erich in the dim entrance hall after a night of entanglements. He insists on telling his side of the story while urging her to return with him to Midvale to hear the other side. She packs, torn between Cogswell ties and her growing feelings as they leave together.
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Susan
Erich
Chick Malloy
Merril
Scarbrough
Einch
Midvale
Cogswells
Gwens
Charley
Dreamy ride through Midvale hints at past and future
Susan and Erich flee the city at night driving toward Midvale after a long romantic evening. He recalls Europe trips, Julie’s restless drive, and his wartime return. The dark village and looming Scarbrough House set a tense mood as the story leaves readers awaiting the continuation.
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Erich
Europe
America
Julie
Midvale
Susan
Scarbrough House
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