Atomic bomb secret will stay guarded, Groves says
Major General Leslie Groves, director of the atomic project, says the bomb secret remains safe from spies. He compares the work to a 109000 piece jig saw puzzle and warns that public belief in easy access to the full secret is unwarranted. The article argues that atomic energy knowledge will spread, but the know-how to build or deploy a bomb is far from universal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
United States
Russia
America
Russa
Leslie R. Groves
Los Angeles
Hiroshima
United Nations
Moscow
Congress of the
Subscriptions and a Montana Romance Interweave
A narrative unfolds with Ann and Colin amid a house addition project and Colin’s leaving to write a new novel. Ann plans a mail routine, encounters Mrs Christmas, and learns she may be pregnant though she keeps it quiet from Colin. Susie now lives with Ann as plans for a mountain shack writing retreat proceed. To Be Continued?
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ann
Jock
Nina
Colin
Angel
Julie
Darling
Susie
Audden
Mrs. Christmas
What Price Inflation Control
The document condemns an OPA memorandum titled Techniques of Interviewing that mirrors Gestapo tactics. It warns of coercive interrogation, social pressure, and ruined trust within communities. The piece notes congressional censure and recalls a real case where CPA agents pressured a country mother in her home. It questions the price of inflation control and the reach of economic policing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
OPA
United States
Congressional Record
CPA
The dispossessed Bikinians face an atomic age warning
A reflective critique on Bikini Atoll uprooting by nuclear testing. It contrasts native resilience with global leaders’ failures, warning that war and atomic weapons threaten every place, turning communities into uncertain echoes of home. The piece links Bikinians’ displacement to a universal future of instability.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bikini Atoll
Juda
Detroit
Calcutta
Vladivostok
Political party regularity clashes with Hank Wallace
The piece laments Secretary Hank Wallace for demanding party regularity and purging irregular Democrats. It notes his long in and out of party ties and argues Roosevelt could not, and Wallace cannot, align all factions. It cites regional blocs shaping votes in Congress and across the nation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hank Wallace
Hank
Congress
West
Middle West
South
Wallace misfires on party purge call in Washington
Peter Edson notes Henry Wallace’s controversial urge to expel dissenters from the party ranks over core issues. He sees Wallace as an acutely capable thinker whose timing often backfires, highlighting partisan machines, unsettled postwar policy, and a stubborn southern-northern coalition that threatens Democratic unity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Henry Wallace
Henry
Wallace
Congress
Truman
Liabel
Treatment Poet's Corner and News From Gallipolis
A mixed column features poems by Leda Sams and Norad Hesson about war’s lingering sadness and spring’s return, plus a prose note from Gallipolis on France’s postwar recovery and the need for aid. An LA picnic grove detail and Annie McIntyre Bartoee contributions round out a varied community page.
Ravenswood Social Notes
Ravenswood social notices list visits and guests in Ravenswood and nearby towns. Names include Elva Carmichael Elwood Brown Jr W G McGaughy Lester Yates Clara Belle Tucker and others with trips to Parkersburg Charleston Cleveland and Herod Ohio. Local clergy visits noted and birthday greetings for J W Moore grandson John Eddie Woodyard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ravenswood
Elva Carmichael
Elwood Brown Jr
W. G. Mc Gaughy
Lester Yates
Waverly
W. Va
Mc‘Gaughy
Charleston
Phil M. Jenkins
Stewart
Huntington
Mr. Jenkins
The
Baptist Church
Eddie Weisheit
Wheeling
Clara Weisheit
Ross Wood
Paul D. Starkey
Wood
Ravenswood Christian Church
Marjorie Fleming
Parkersburg
Margaret E. Forbes
Ravenswood Houses
Cleveland
Roxa Palmer
Great Bend Ohio
Noah Stanley
J. W. Moore
Moore
John Eddie Woodyard
June Ritchie
Ithe University
W. S. Ritchie
Paul Pickens
Herod
Ohio
Ten Years Ago in Athens Local Clubs and OU Faculty Moves
Mrs. Clarence Samford spoke on Ireland at a Lydia Lash Evans Club meeting hosted by Mrs. John Dowler. A Business and Professional Women’s Club benefit bridge had a committee including Miss Emma Stotts and Miss Cora Evans. Eight OU faculty members planned summer teaching at Penn State, Kansas, Ohio State, Florida, Oregon, and New York University. James Josten, originator of the Athens Coca-Cola Bottling Co., sold his stake to a Parkersburg company twenty years earlier.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Y Carter
Mall
Onio
Mal
Ohio
Athens
John W Cullen Comany
New York
Columbus
Cleveland
Chicago
Rome
Thane
E.c
Clarence Samford
Ireland
Lydia Lash Evans
John Dowler
Morris Ave
Business and Professional Women’s Club
Hotel Berry
Emma Stotts
Carl Roberts
Gladys, Jones
Cora Evans
A. T. Volwinler
Pennsylvania State College
BH. C. Lenman
University of Kansas
F. J. Roos, Jr
Ohio, State University
E. C. Cless
R. A. Foster
University of Florida
J. PF. Porter
E. A. Taylor
University of Oregon
Helen Reynolds
New York University
James Josten
Coca-Cola
Parkersburg Company
Wilkesville Personal Notices and Local Moves
A Jeweled snapshot of Wilkesville social life with new American Legion Auxiliary initiates, past chiefs club gatherings at the Corrill home, and multiple moves including the Shilling family to the George Bishop property. Nearby families and visitors from Columbus, Dayton, Hamden, Radcliff, and Athens are noted, along with army discharge of John Alfred Clark and a sudden death in Gallipolis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilkesville
American Legion Auxiliary
Floyd Corrill
Ernest Major
Pennsylvania
Deimar Kruz
Columbus
J. E. Strong
Order of the Eastern Star
Norma Bryson
Hamden
Kyril Betz
D. M. Bryson
Wilma Saltz
Ruth Swisher
Ardis Macomber
Radcliff
John Shilling
George Bishop
Henry Kruskamp
Anna Shenefield
Ray Fransbaugh
John Alfred Clark
John Clark
Dayton
Clark
Sanford Halley
Gallipolis
Blair Might
Athens
Debbie Fitzpatrick
Holzer Hospital
The
American Legion
Davis Farm
John Steele
Wellston
Worthy Shank
Rutland Social Briefs From Rutland Ohio Church Events
Rutland social notes report a baptism ceremony at the Methodist Church for Peggy Lucile Minerd and Marilee Minerd, with extended family from Tronton Ohio. Also listed are visits by Ohio University Home Economics students with local observers, birthday dinners, Easter sale preparations, OES inspection attendance, new birth, and two deaths with funeral details.
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Rutland
Methodist Church of
Carson Jackson Minerd
Columbus
Ohia
Peggy Lucille
Marilee
Carson Minard
Ralph Boyer
Tronton
Ohio
Rosalee Minard
Barbara Boyer
Cornelia Powers
Eva Bryant
Arza Bryant
Clyde Donahue
Ladies Aid Society of the Christian Church
Ed Taylor
Victor Braley
Richard Grueser
Almas Ratings
Ernest Molden
Oscar Patterson
Herman Hoppes
Carl Denison
Marcus Roush
Russell Little
Harry Williamson
Tom Porter
Frank Young
Joe Philips
Don Anderson
Charles Gray
Harrisonville
O.E.S
Wilkesville
George Wilbur Young
Dana Young
Enterprise
Kate Weyersmitter
Minerva Armstrong
Opal Armstrong
Lawrence Schmitt
Miles Cemetery
Clarabelle Strong
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David Lawrence
National Dispatch
Joel
By Hazel Heidergott
Peter Edson
Congres
Poet's Corner
Fen
Leda Sams
France
Paris
Norad
Hesson
Heaven
Annie McIntyre Bartoe
Nelsonville
Pandora's Box
Spring
Sorine
Laura Chase Foster
France l
Ravenswood Social Notes
Olive W. Brush
Athens County
Aka Hatch
Coach Wise
Athens Junior High
Walter Muir
OU Bobcat
C. D. Hopkins
Rachel Hopkins
Rufus Hopkins
Ann Willard
William Inglin
Rutland Social Briefs
By Galbraith
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