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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1942
Page
4
Public notice text appears with newspaper masthead and copyright limits. The piece lists publishing staff and Associated Press affiliation, with subscription rates for Ohio and outside Ohio, plus carrier and daily Sunday pricing and copyright notice. It includes a Milton quote about liberty.
Officials claim rubber policy chaos is resolved but the public asks why tires are threatened or kept unused. The piece criticizes plans to divert funds from synthetics, argues farmers and oil interests shape policy, and warns of waste and continued car shortages while salvage programs fail.
A London Daily Mail action is praised for blocking a War Office reveal that would have publicized a new anti aircraft device. The delay protected secrecy and deprived Germany and Japan of five years of British testing conducted on a tropical isle.
Westbrook Pegler reviews Thomas E Deweys potential run for New York governor and argues foreign policy remains a national issue, praising Deweys loyalty to the United States and his labor record while predicting a national scrutiny of his isolationist past and labor stance.
Peter Edson explains a new wartime grid of over 20 committees and councils with emergency powers influencing daily life. Local Defense Councils or County War Boards regulate civil mobilization, transport, labor, savings, and even food harvesting as communities prepare for ongoing war demands.
The article notes two million unemployed expected as President Hoover signs the new relief bill. It states the state aid program to begin in about two weeks if on schedule and mentions various local moves and personal travels.
Clyde Dawson confronts a web of spy rings and Nazi sympathizers surrounding Carole Fiske and her brother Bernard Fiske. Darwin Lemoy shifts from ally to suspect as Dexel reveals a deadly confrontation at a speakeasy and a murder tied to a secret war data scheme.
Henderson residents share weekend travels and visits across Ashland Gallipolis Point Pleasant Huntington and Cincinnati. Notables include Mr. and Mrs. J B Colley with daughters Betty and Arawana and Miss Wanda Young. Mrs. Mamie Colley. Mrs. Russell Vaughn visiting from Akron. relatives attending Harry Stevens funeral in Galapolis. Charles Clark Francis Clark Landis Pearson. Amagene Casey at a Gallipolis show. Elder Beaver preaching in Parkersburg Tabernacle with nightly services. families visiting in Gallipolis Ferry and Point Pleasant. Mrs Goldin Sullivan and daughters moving to Cincinnati. others shopping in Point Pleasant.
Alfred social life notes list a kitchen shower and serenade for the Kimes at the Swartz home with about 150 neighbors. The column also reports visits and greetings among families in Pomeroy Athens Reedsville and Dayton plus a death notice for Stella Caldwell Russell in Stewart.
New Plymouth society pages list Helen Fuller returning to Columbus with sisters Frances Ann and Barbara for a two week visit. Chicago visitors Ernest Peters and daughter Ethel stayed with Walter Peters family, with Blanche Potter and sons Billie and Harry also present. Various locals hosted relatives from Lancaster Newark Union Furnace and beyond during a weekend of reunions and travel. Rev Raymen Konkright spoke at the Reddick reunion in Logan’s Kacheimacher Park on Sunday afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Sells and family of Bridgeport and Mrs. Mabel Davison of Wheeling visited their sister Mrs. Sherd Cofer. Mrs. Grover M. Smith underwent an appendicitis operation. Beatrice Blazier Gay recovering after appendicitis surgery. Clyde Holcomb visiting relatives in Springfield. Alonzo Saunders Crown City visiting Everett Saunders. Edwin Cofer, 24, critically ill with spinal meningitis in Alaska. Henry Taylor awaiting word from a son in England. Mrs. Brodie Halley critically ill with sleeping sickness. Hudson Saunders on a 14 day furlough.
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