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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1945
Page
14
Washington column argues a national debate over practicality and principle shapes postwar thinking. It contrasts appeasement and hard doctrine, cites 1930s Europe, and urges steadfast ideals to oppose totalitarian threats while noting unity among Allied powers.
The notice lists SUBSCHIPVION RATES including six months at $6.50 and weekly rates. Ohio mail options show one year $6.50, six months $3.50, six weeks $1.00, one week 25 cents. other lines reference edition services, pricing for notices, and mailings with a small descriptive note about print paper limitations and post office stamping. a line cites Johan W. Cullen Company and advertising rate inquiries available at Home or Foreign offices.
A man bursts in and a struggle leaves a bullet in the wall as Nick wrests the pistol away. The assailant escapes amid a tense scene set near The Ledges with Brenda Temple and Nick warning of danger and acontinued mystery about who planned the attack.
Lottridge Christian Endeavor met at Carrie Gainer home for March. Many visits and dinners noted with families in Sheltering Arms Hospital, Coolville, Athens and Point Pleasant. A daughter born March 14 to Frank and Kathie Jane Chapman with grandparents L. C. Swearingen and Amelia Chapman. John Chevalier family ill at home as Edward Chevalier and relatives visit.
During 1940 and 1941 Germany and Japan plundered textiles across Europe and the Orient. Relief workers report widespread clothing deprivation in Balkans Poland Hungary Western Russia France Belgium Holland and the Philippines. In April the US is urged to donate 150000000 pounds of used clothing to aid war ravaged regions and the call asks Americans to sustain their tradition of immediate generosity.
A wartime appeal urges readers to donate unused clothing shoes and bedding to the United National Clothing Collection during April. It stresses that while soldiers sacrifice abroad, civilians can aid without personal loss by providing serviceable items for Europeans in need, noting millions are undernourished and clothed.
The note criticizes Forrestal's peacetime merger proposal for all overseas communications into a government controlled entity. It argues such control invites censorship and hurts press freedom, especially after Stettinius's push for press liberty at Chapultepec. It urges the Senate to bury the idea.
Adolf Honnert of Saarbruecken, an early Nazi who confessed and repented, was rewarded by American forces with an acting burgomaster position in his home city, reflecting a notable postwar irony in occupation policies.
Peter Edson surveys postwar labor dynamics noting 24 million workers in unions about a quarter of the labor force and five main groups A F L C I O railway unions United Mine Workers and independents. No unified front. labor lobbies are powerful. debates over a Labor Department persist. unions engage in wide government activity, with focus shifting to state and local politics amid anti-labor currents.
Chesterhill notes report local staff changes at First Methodist Church Ath ens new staff head Miss Mary Ward and a town trip to New Orleans for Mardi Gras. The column blends village notices with World War II context including Patton’s Third Army drive, Russian advances toward Austria, and the German northern defense engaging Allied forces. Ordnance and casualties are not detailed. the piece foregrounds community moves, indictions, and regional wartime sentiment.
The Albany church plans Easter services with a Last Supper observance at the Methodist Church on Thursday evening March 29, a Good Friday service with special music and slides, a sunrise service Sunday at 6 80, Sunday School at 9 30, and Easter worship at 10 30. Local residents and visitors are noted in brief social items.
Broadwell social notes list guests of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Persons over the weekend including Mr. and Mrs. Lyle White and three children and Mr. Wayne Parsons with Miss Mary Parsons of Warren. Also seen were Miss Hazel Burk and Miss Geraldine Parsons of Marietta Ohio. Visits continued with Mr. and Mrs. Wells Van Dyke of Athens and Mr. and Mrs. George Ogg of Stewart. Mrs. Ernest White moved with children to Crooksville for work. Additional visits involved Don Harris and three children from Westland to Frank Parsons, Perley Kerns of Athens to John Young, Mesory Van Dyke and Mrs. Albert Ogg at a U B rally in Chillicothe, and Clyde Bobo and four children from Athens Route to Connie Van Dyke Tuesday.
Kanauga W S CS held a bazaar and bake sale in the Columbus and Southern Ohio Electric office building in Gallipolis Friday. Meeting of the W C T U postponed to April 19 due to high water. Several local visits and travels noted, including guests from Ashland, Bluefield, Long Bottom, Flint, and Charleston, plus family gatherings and trips among Stewart, Gregory, Wallace, Vickers, Leedy, Lively, and Yeanger families.
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