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Ohio
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Alfons Post Office
Isis
Jona W Culien Company
Chicago
New York
Columbus
Cleveland
Allies weigh strategy as Sicily victory nears
Allied leaders roared toward a decision on the best route to defeat Hitler with rapid victories in Russia and Sicily and air power over Germany. Roosevelt and Churchill may meet again to shape a Europe wide campaign balancing invasion or air assault and pace of the Pacific war. Orel falls on the eastern front and Catania signals the likely end of stiff Axis resistance in Sicily.
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Russia
Sicily
Germany
Roosevelt
Churchill
Hitler
European
Washington
Europe
Pacific
Catania
Italy
Pietro Badoglio
Congress
Orel
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Mayor La Guardia reassures Canada that the United States does not seek annexation. Americans oppose annexation in principle and would welcome a voluntary Canada joining a united North America if such a choice emerged from Canada itself.
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Canada
North America
United States
Vacation workers in New York area question farm work demand
Mrs. Anna Rosenberg of the War Manpower Commission notes farmers are not welcoming city residents for farm vacations. The columnist mocks urban assumptions about labor and hints farmers avoid excess eaters and unreliable help.
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Anna Rosenberg
War Manpower Commission
New York
Inventors urged to plan postwar civilian goods
Richard P. Brown of Brown Instrument division says 1,500 new postwar plants funded by taxpayers will become available to produce civilian goods. He urges studying peace time articles now and starting development before Hitler surrenders to keep factories productive.
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Richard P. Brown
Brown Instrument Division
Minneapolis Honeywell
Brown
Hitler
Draft of Pre Pearl Harbor Fathers Stirs War Policy Debate
The piece critiques the October draft call for so-called Pre Pearl Harbor fathers and the Selective Service system. It questions coordination in Washington, notes 57,000 aircraft workers may be pulled from factories, and urges scrutiny of who ordered the move and how civilian manpower is valued against military needs.
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Washington
Administration
Roosevelt
Italy
Pearl Harbor
Taft
Ohio
National Selective Service Headquarters
House
California
Russia
War Manpower Commission
National Selective Service
National Headquarters
Army
Marshall
Quiet Sicilian Evening With Paratroopers And General
In Sicily the writer recalls overnighting with the 82nd Airborne after following Patton’s Seventh Army into Palermo. A sunset talk under an olive tree with a general and colonel explores courage, paratrooper jumps, and how group courage sustains individuals, ending with a Seneca quotation.
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London
Sicily
Patton
Seventh Army
Palermo
Ernie Pyle
Scripps-Howard
Jack Thompson
The
Chicago Tribune
82Nd Airborne Division
Thompson
Stephen Vincent Benet
Kipling
Two Key German Front Anchors Fell in Russia and Sicily
The piece notes the capture of Orel in Russia and Catania in Sicily as major allied advances. It describes Orel as a crucial railway hinge near Moscow and the Sicilian port area as a pivotal left flank for Axis defense. The actions are framed as a paired pinch on Hitler’s front, with future fierce fighting anticipated in both theaters.
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Dewitt MacKenzie
Orel
Hitler
Sicily
Balkans
Russia
Violin care tips and a wartime railway journey
Editor advises students to keep violins in proper repair and balance, noting instructors cannot fix instruments. The writer then recounts a crowded Soviet rail journey to Moscow, detailing crowded compartments, scarce food, and the calm pace of travel amid war preparations before reaching a hopeful return to work.
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the Messenger
S. H. Fadely
Premier Sikorski killed in plane crash shocks allies
A quiz column reveals Gen Wladyslaw Sikorski, Polish premier in exile, died in an airplane crash. Other questions cover dogs in bridge, the 1920 Black Sox scandal, the Big Inch pipeline flow, Eyebrow location in Canada, scuttlebutt meaning, and Tokyo Rose as a wartime propagandist.
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Wladyslaw Sikorski
Ohio University summer school graduates in 1936
A class of 203 students completed Ohio University Summer School with President E. B. Bryan delivering the address. Barbers of Sunday Creek Valley joined the Athens Barbers Union. Eleanor Roe hosted a farewell bridge party for Miss Katherine Betz moving to Pittsburgh. Various local residents visited family and enjoyed theater listings at the Majestic Theater showing Penrod and Sam.
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Ohio University Summer School
E. B. Bryan
Barbers
Sunday Creek Valley
Barbers Union of
Athens
Eleanor Roe
Katherine Betz
Pittsburgh
Poets Corner Sailor Boy Portraits and War Shadow
A reader recalls a wartime photograph of a sailor boy, one image tense with blue sorrow and a lingering shadow. Another picture, warmer and brighter, she prefers, yet the sorrowful gaze remains haunting as life travels to its final mile.
Sunday Torch Social and Personal Notes at Local Church
Sunday evening services at the Methodist Church featured TORCH-Preaching by Reverend Runnells on The Marks of a Sound Christian. Guests visited local homes through the week including families from Athens Belpre Hockingport and Parkersburg with many relocations and stays noted.
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Th Methodist Church
Runnells
F. D. Shafer
Ruth
Margaret
Ro Robertson
Akron
Sarah Furner
Baby
Belott
E. Swisher
Herald
Guysville
Rex Anderson
A. E. Whaley
Athens
Jake Lyons
Wayne
Clarence Randolph
Walter
Ronnie Milan
Lana Griffin
Pich
Wilson Roadside
Charles Newman
Little Hocking
Joe Logue
Melvin Blac
New Bronto
Hockingport
Cee” Jones
Mars” Town
W. Va
Jones
Clyde Bake
David Traught
Tonia, Ky
Nellie Johnson
Loville
M A. Ee
Parkersburg
Ae ‘Gray
Samuel Gm
Theim Fa
Drake
Calif
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American Mewspaper Publichere Association
Gricct
Audit Bureau of Circulations
Ohio Newspaper Association
David Lawrence
National Dispatch
Clapper
Senecay
Navie
Vioclinic
Moscow
By Henry C. Cassidy
Soviet Union
Black Sea
Caucasus
Shauli
Kaunas
Volkovisk
Korobinsk
Vladimir-Volynsk
Rava Russka
Brodsk
Belostok
Brest
Kolno
Lomia
North Caucasus
Sea of Azov
Taganrog
Don
Rostov
Donetz Basin
Voronezh
Kursk
Tula
Robert Magidoff
Lily Pons
Pavel
Sochi
Ivan
Vilno
Lithuania
Red Army
Lwow
Cernovitz
Old Poland
Rumania
Hester
Droers
Chicago Black Sox
Big Inch
Saskatchewan
Tokyo
Lord Haw-Haw
Berlin
Radio Tokyo
By Galbraith
WEA Service. Inc
T.m.reg
U.S
J. M. Higgins
Dayton
Alfred Farmer
Prescott Bentley
Mr. Bentley
Mrs. W. B. Bentley
Brent G. Metcalf
Buckeye Lake
Penrod and
Sam
Booth Tarkington
Penrod
Majestic Theater
Poet's Corner
Messenger
Sailor Boy
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