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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1944
Page
14
AP Features writer Arlene Wolf imagines a postwar dream where women shop for nylons and synthetics, travel by helicopter, run homes with remote buttons, and balance work with automated kitchens, vacuums, and gadgets, ending with a comical wake up call.
Cleveland report details Glidden Co pioneers in soy bean industry. Executives W. J. O'Brien and A. D. Joyce traveled to Germany to study soy potential, noting Alpha protein as a milk substitute for paints, glues, and other products. Plant capacity reaches 25 million pounds monthly as postwar needs grow.
The nation opens 1944 with record wartime production across planes ships and munitions. If Germany is defeated this year production may shift and ease in some lines while defense needs in the Pacific rise. risks of inflation and tax changes loom as government borrows and pays for the war.
Ohio farmers exceeded 1942 output goals by about eight percent despite early shortages and labor limits. Victory Gardens produced over 446 600 tons of food from 121 264 acres with more than 12 million quarts canned and 23 million pounds preserved.
CAMP CAMPBELL Kentucky. Lt Gabriel Ginascoli chaplain of the 20th armored division accompanies troops on bivouac. He rides a motorcycle with the unit digs fox holes and even helps repair tanks. He says gaining confidence comes from sharing real experiences and understanding their problems.
Memphis pharmacist displays a window sign reading delivery boy wanted please, signaling a local employment notice in a storefront window.
Upland California auto court proprietor Charles Gieselman seeks a San Francisco couple who vanished with towels and bedding after renting a cabin. He collected a $2.50 fee, then found the car and $30 worth of furnishings missing ten minutes later.
Arthur J. Wiles, Hays attorney, says he hunts with an expert marksman and claims birds fall every time he fires. He explains he pulls the trigger and then claims half the birds as his share of the gamebag.
Article notes a farm labor shortage addressed by bringing in foreign workers. It lists numbers for out of state workers including 463 Jamaicans 206 Alabamans and 265 Kentuckians.
The tanker Rheem dodged two torpedoes from a Nipponese boat and a third hit bow creasing a hole that flooded decks yet did not stop the ship. Fire forward was quenched by water and crew repaired repairs then sailed on to discharge ballast and proceed 5,500 miles to a repair base before returning to service.
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