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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1945
Page
4
Rates shown for Ohio and outside Ohio including 2 year and 3 year terms. Mentions weekly service, special rates, and second class matter status at Athens Post Office. Notices list offices in Chicago New York Columbus and Cleveland. Advertising rates available on request.
Washington dispatch notes Admiral Nomura’s Tokyo Radio statement arguing that unconditional surrender would save more lives but warns the Allies face higher casualties if Japan fights on. The piece highlights the 90 day window for Japan to decide, and the U S stance that surrender is the sole path to economic recovery and postwar stability.
Lenny Archer arrives on unexpected leave to find Mildred and Corliss hindered by a family feud. Raymond mocks the tension as Mildred and Lenny exchange shy embraces while Raymond jokes about letters hidden under Mildred’s pillow. The scene ends with Raymond easing the doorway tension before the romance resumes.
A roundup of society happenings lists Mr. and Mrs. N. S. Welk and relatives visiting in Huntington and East Palestine, Mrs. Webb Walker hosting a kitchen shower for Kathryn Minnameyer, and guests at Buckeye Lake. Earlier memories recall Dr. B. W. Bingman in Beaumont with Mrs. Bingman and the Sprague family driving to Zanesville, plus Goldsberry travel from Boston.
Soldiers in the European Theater save heavily through allotments insurance and War Bonds and plan for civilian life. Letters in Stars and Stripes reveal goals like education for children, home ownership, farms and small businesses. Many intend to buy rather than sell, planning homes, farms, schools, ranches, and later life security.
The article argues for swift action by CAE and President Truman to authorize Pan-American Airways American Export Fort Airlines and Transcontinental and Western to start foreign services. It warns of fierce global competition from Britain Russia France and others and urges timely preparations to seize international aviation opportunities before they pass.
The San Francisco Meeting of 50 nations unanimously bar Francisco Franco from leading Spain into the United Nations. The decision signals a sharp global rebuke of fascism and weakens Franco’s international standing. Prospects of renewed diplomatic ties remain uncertain as Spain’s economy and prestige lag.
Peter Edson analyzes the new United Nations Organization and the U. S. delegation. He notes Edward R. Stettinius will hold top seats on the Security Council and the General Assembly, with about 19 senior posts and varying titles and salaries. The five permanent members will join with six elected by the General Assembly to form the Council, tasked with maintaining world peace.
The Women's Advisory Committee of the War Manpower Commission urges after the war a shift from mistress and domestic servant to employer and employee. The writer quips that wartime housewives may want the committee to determine who is employing whom, once and for all.
Children on Okinawa attend an American run school enforced by the American Military Government to keep traffic clear and to curb begging. Lt. Leroy Brown oversees a bare, thatched building in Kuga Village with 800 pupils and only a blackboard, nine native women teachers, and two native men. The program emphasizes English, sanitation, and core subjects rather than Japanese martial traditions, and aims to instill respect and kindness in students.
Corning residents share social news from June through July including dinners, marriages, and furloughs. Miss Mary McDonald hosts guests from Columbus and Zanesville. John Chuvalis on 30 day leave. two Hill School graduates leave Columbus employment. Martin Barnett and Goldie Bolden wed in New Lexington and plan Corning home. 4-H Club invites youths to Friday meeting. many relatives visit Columbus and Indianapolis while service members return from overseas with furloughs and family reunions.
Mason See?a and family visits dot a busy social page. Nearby residents travel to join relatives in Pomeroy and Buckeye Lake while several couples host guests in Middleport and Parkersburg. A birth is announced in Lima, and a Washington update reports wartime restrictions on balsa wood distribution being lifted by the War Production Board.
War Today columnist Dewitt Mackenzie argues the Big Three must settle internal policy before tackling European recovery. He notes divergent Soviet and Anglo American views on Berlin aid and German governance, predicting clashes over postwar policy and the spread of communism across Europe, with shifts in Poland Romania and the Balkans.
The S S Empire Javelin carrying the 11th Army Headquarters to France was sunk in the English Channel on December 28 by a German mine or torpedo. Thirteen men were missing and 28 injured among 268 officers and 1,213 enlisted aboard.
Chicago 37 The Methodist Church reports a reduction of 11,909,303 dollars in U S church indebtedness. Official statistician Rev Albert O Hoover told national officials the church's total property value stood at 731,903 53 with current debt 25,587,960 down from 37,497,263 a year earlier. The denomination shows 8,046,129 members.
Through a greenhouse walk the narrator notes growth and beauty, then wintery blasts and bare fields. The poem ponders life’s span and toil with imagery of cold, fruited lack and unbearing lives. Frank E. Coe Reynoldsburg.
THE PLAINS The Men's Class of the Methodist Church will hold its monthly meeting in the church Friday July 13 at 8 o'clock. Guest speaker Prof L C Staats will have as his subject Americanism All men of the community are invited to attend.
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