Messenger seeks subscriptions and service rates
The notice lists subscription options for carriers and mail, with annual, semiannual, and weekly rates in Ohio and outside Ohio. It notes overseas service rates and mentions acceptance limits based on paper supply, plus national representatives and obituary charges.
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Associated Press
Ohio
Messenger
Athens
Iglé
John W. Cullen Company
Chicago
New York
Columbus
Cleveland
May Day Pressure Rising as Allied Invasion Looms
The article describes a two week Allied bombing surge from Britain against Nazi Europe to soften defenses for a planned Anglo American invasion. It notes German and Russian speculation on invasion timing and the weather aiding operations, while stressing that a decisive invasion remains weeks away.
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Europe
Hitler
Britain
Atlantic Wall
England
Germany
North Sea
Russia
Baltic
Black Sea
Great Russia
Carpathians
Moscow
Galati
Balkans
Berlin
Senator Mead Reports A GI War Sketch Book
Senator Mead and colleagues tour bases to learn soldiers’ real conditions. Sergeant Brummett Echohawk’s frontline sketches, drawn in a hospital, show tired dirty unshaven troops, wounded and dead, not glossy ads. They urge readers to grasp the true war frame in 1941-44 context.
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James M. Mead
Brewster
Chandler
Lodge
Russell
Pawnee
Brummett Echohawk
Echohawk
Patterson
Mr. Patterson
Italy
South Pacific
Solemn Spiritual Regard Cited As Essential
A quoted line frames a solemn religious regard to spiritual and eternal matters as an indispensable element of all true greatness. The aphorism attributes weight to inner faith shaping character beyond worldly achievements.
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Daiyel Webster
Roosevelt era seizure sparks congressional probe
Washington witnesses a flare of indignation as critics warn that using the Smith Connally law to seize a mail order retailer could empower the government to take any business that supposedly aids the war effort. Advocates insist Congress must investigate the attorney general's definitional reach and the War Labor Board’s role.
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Washington
House of Representatives
Senate
Roosevelt
Congress
War Labor Board
Smith- Connally
Chicago
Wards
Sewell Avery
Textile and Apparel Black Market Threatens Cost of Living
Peter Edson reports that black market operations in textiles and clothing challenge OPA enforcement and price stability. The scope is vast with 200 investigators across major centers and dozens of triple damages actions filed, targeting false invoices, cash premiums, dummy wholesalers, and quality depreciation.
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OPA
New York
Chicago
St. Louis
West Coast
St. Paul, Minn
East
Baltimore
Philadelphia
Murray City Graduation Day Nearing
Murray City High School prepares for senior events from May 6 through May 16. The Class of 1944 includes Jean Rowland valedictorian and Mary Louise Donsor salutatorian. Local residents and relatives visit and travel for commencement related activities and ceremonies.
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Murray City
Murray City High School
Roy Standiford
Jacksonville
Delbert Woodford
Jean Rowland
Gloria Bunting
Richard Darby, Jr
Guy Darby
Mary Louise Donson
Eugene Irwin
Stephen Kozik
Donald Lanning
Shirley Lanning
Lucille Lucas
LaDonna Poling
Betty Shuttleworth
Dorothy Simon
Eugene Snyder
Reginald Spencer
Irene Sikora
Robert Wilson
Mary Louise Donsor
Marion Shelton
Barberton
John Shelton
Kay
Nelsonville
C. A. Barnhill
Columbus
Springfield
Robert Anders
Canton
Bert Anders
Clara Penrod
Trimble
Emma Tippie
Lester Sorrell
Betty Sabo
Betty Jane
Frances
Logan
Charles
Edward Dixon
Ed Jonas
Betty Darby
Becky Craft
Public concern over constitutional rights in wartime
CHAS B TIMMONS of Middletown protests government overreach during WWII critiquing actions he sees as unconstitutional. He condemns police and military conduct against private property and questions impeachment of the President, urging adherence to the Constitution.
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United States
Chicago
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Chas, B. Timmons
Middletown
Poet to Banks and the Towers Foreseen in Ink and Air
A poem from Messenger Readers laments the intrusion of riverbank development and later the closure of airport traffic control towers. Carrier Chick of Gallipolis Ohio writes of childhood, memory, loss, and a plea for calm. The column transitions to a news note about the Civil Aeronautics Administration announcing the discontinuation of towers including Akron Ohio.
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Carrier
Chick
Eastern Ave
Gallipolis
Ohio
Washington
Civil Aeronautics Administration
Akron
Carbondale Social Briefs
Relatives from out of town attended the funeral of Mrs. Chloe Auker including Mr. and Mrs. Bony Weed from New Plymouth and many others from Columbus Jelloway Barberton Nelsonville Chillicothe Athens. Other visits include Betty Kennard Athens and Mildred Barber Columbus. Cpl Pearl Stanley returned to Texas after a furlough with local family.
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Carbondale
Chloe Auker
Bony Weed
New Plymouth
Vance McClead
Nene
Ada
Columbus
George Hawthorne
Jelloway
Joe Nilson
Wesley McDaniel
Rita
Barberton
Joe Stanley
Nelsonville
Betty Jean Michaels
Clinton Cox
Chillicothe
Betty Kennard
Athens
Alberta Statten
Dwight Mace
Anna McDaniel
Rita Barberton
Mattie Gabriel
Elston Mace
Ruth Arnold
Dayton
Nora
Roy Arnold
Mildred Stump
Edith Stump
Albert Stapley
Micky Rizzo
Utica
N. Y
Electa Arnod
Pearl Stanley
Texas
Clandestine Plot Unfolds at Niji Prison and a Bond of Suspicion
Captain Azaraski and Baldwin plot a coup while Link Belt and Norma Greer are drawn into the danger. Azaraski seeks control and double crosses loom as Baldwin tests a risky trust with a wary Japanese agent. Link awaits a decisive plan as tension mounts in the prison.
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Azaraski
Niji
Baldwin
Araraski
Link
Norma Greer
Pal
Captain Azaraski
Lissen
Miyajima
Methodist Youth Army Proposal Placed Before Conference
The Methodist Church quadrennial general conference hears a plan for a Methodist youth army requiring a year of service to church and humanity. Promising young people would receive social service training then work in hospitals slums and dying rural churches. The note also mentions U S Army supply vehicles burning about 10 gallons of gasoline daily in combat duty.
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Kansas City
Methodist Church
U. S. Army
Bishopville Social Roundup Notes Local Moves and Visits
Bishopville items report residents visiting relatives from Athens Glouster and Columbus. Highlights include Lawrence Shaner’s England arrival, Orland Richardson joining Engineers abroad, library branch presence at Moody Grocery, and multiple family gatherings and illnesses.
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Cpl
Orland Richardson
E. L. Pedicord
Anna Grubb
J. O. Moody
A. G. Carter
Kenneth Wolfe
T. F. Davis
John
Columbus
Lena
John Carter
Linda Lou
Bernice Carter
Groveport
Parkersburg
Glen Pedicord
Linda Lou Carter
Thomas Smith
Akron
Bishopville
Glouster
Smiths
Kelly
C. A. Thomas
Sheltering Arms Hospital
Athens
Kate Love Simpson
McConnellville
Moody
John Clark
Glen
Verl
Kay All of
Bartlett
William Hoon
Anna Smith
Chauncey
Katzenbach
P. M. Smith
Barberton
J. W. Moody
Dean Moody
Chesterhill
Millard Easler
Edith Canter
Here
Earl Morris
Douglas Smith
Carrie Roberts
Food shortages and higher point values loom in Ohio crops
Ohio State University crop experts forecast food shortages and higher ration points for vegetables and fruits this winter. They cite manpower shortages, below normal canned stocks, unseasonable weather, and floods reducing yield as key factors, with a 15 to 25 percent drop in Victory Garden plantings expected.
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Ohio
Columbus
Ohio State University
H. D. Brown
Ane
Victor H. Ries
Ohio Victory Garden Program
War Food Administration
Washington
WFA
Brown
Ohio Victory Garden Council
Victory Garden
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David Lawrence
National Dispatch
Peter Edson
the Public Forum
the Messenger
Poet's Corner
Carbondale Social Briefs
Mildred Barber
George Barber
Jasper Cox
Howard Cly
Gertie Evans
Charles Stump
Veterans’ Hospital
Tane
By Galbraith
Mrs. Jones
Methodist Youth Army
Bishopville News
Dwight Steffy, Glouster
Pfc
Lawrence Shaner
U. S. Medical Corps
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