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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1940
Page
4
Postal rates list 15 cents weekly by carrier and advance payments in Athens Gallia Hockinggan Vinton and Washington counties. One year four dollars fifty cents six months fifty cents ten weeks one dollar. Extra postage rates in other zones on application.
The Air Transport Association reports 1939 saw 1,000,000 passengers and 620 million passenger miles with no injuries, plus a rise to 880 million passenger miles from 635 million in 1938. Col. Edgar Gorrell credits pilots and mechanics for safety and notes airlines returned to profitability on passenger service despite prior losses.
In an election year debate roils over a 60 percent top rate from 75. Roosevelt urges a super tax and LaFollette pushes broader base. Harrison argues lower surtaxes would spur capital, jobs, and growth, increasing tax returns as Congress weighs options.
A book review counsels retirement by examining Richard Aldington's Seven Against Reeves. The plot follows a man who quits business at fifty only to be dragged back by family, society, and costly social pretensions. The piece notes a Broadway caper and Romania's stance against Russia as contemporaneous items.
Raymond Clapper reports Springfield's relief offices contend with about 5300 job seekers and 14000 workers in the city while monthly relief costs run near 5500. WPA projects aid 200 plus women. county-city disputes over responsibility persist as Dayton rivals loom.
Bruce Catton notes growing Congressional anger over British blockade tactics. Non-British ships carrying U.S. goods face delays and searches, with some ships free of contraband yet held up. Rep. Melvin Maas plans a bill halting war material exports to nations seizing American ships, challenging administration policy.
An article notes the Bridges deportation conflict with Labor Department special examiner Dean Landis ruling Bridges cleared, and Secretary Perkins must decide to accept or overrule. It also mentions a costly hospital triplets case and Rex Tugwell’s view on a possible Roosevelt term, plus sharp asides about Roosevelt and the Marx Brothers.
The new session opens with debate over timing of adjournment while the munitions trade shows strong growth and demand.
The column offers quick factual Q A snippets on antlers diet ancient banking cost by region education per capita Orion legend parentheses brackets naval and marine corps WWI counts and shotgun shot details. It presents concise answers including the Babylonian banking system by 2000 B C and US naval figures.
Mrs. Malvina LeFavor celebrated her 90th birthday at 32 S High St with family. Her life story appeared in The Messenger, while Chauncey Dover High School plans an operetta College Days and Ohio University cast members perform Sun Up. TWENTY YEARS AGO items note War Savings stamps sales and campus events.
The editor notes that privileges of the Public Forum require each letter to include the writer's name and a witness signature confirming address and authenticity. Signatures may be checked and unconfirmable letters will not be published.
A letter from A. L. Hysenl Bradbury dated January 10 urges Christians to reject worldly pleasures and renew faith. He blames pastors for lax teaching, urges declaring the whole council of God, and promotes giving 25 cents per person to fight infantile paralysis rather than joining secular fundraisers.
Mrs. Mary H. Enstrom of Ashtabula Ohio used a trailer built by her brother and pulled by bicycles. Her two wheel trailer was propelled by three bicycles with her 12 year old twins Elsie and Charles and 11 year old Robert pedaling from Mecca Ohio to Lakewood New York.
In wartime London fashion expert Mary Carroll pursues a career sketching city life while a love triangle unfolds. Mary uncovers Carla Marchetta’s manipulations and Vincent Gregg’s fragile romance as rumors swirl about Carla, a Moravia vanished lover, and a suspenseful exhibit plan at Lady Ponce Townsend’s Mayfair home.
Mary stands in the line and sees a car follow the limousine. She returns to her Soho rooms and sketches quick plans. A message from Dr. O Connell arrives, altering her thoughts as the story continues.
Investigations in 1939 showed sterilization of operating room air by ultraviolet rays and advances in psychosomatic medicine for conditions like asthma and hypertension. The EEG aided epilepsy diagnosis, and research linked certain rheumatisms to injections in mice. New prostigmine treats myasthenia gravis. sobisminol for syphilis emerged.
Nine month old Isabelle Bobsien slept peacefully in a room wrecked by a storm in WEST VALLEY N Y while family members hurried home to a house with broken furniture and glass. An older sister’s door slam woke another child, but the tiny infant remained calm as chaos surrounded her.
Pasadena Chamber of Commerce offered a $50 prize for ideas to improve the city. One entrant suggested keeping Pasadena as is, declaring it a paradise now.
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