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Invasion as First Step to a Lasting Peace
The article argues that post Pearl Harbor the United States must crush autocracy to secure peace. It lauds industrial mobilization, wartime production, and national unity under democratic enterprise, praising workers, manufacturers, and leaders for enabling invasion and ultimate victory. It closes urging swift, worthy plans by the people who will lead the offensive.
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Europe
America
Pearl Harbor
Britain
Call for Unity to Speed Allied Victory
The article argues internal revolts arise when nations lose, weakening Greece Yugoslavia France and others. It warns such strife hampers invasion plans while Britain and the United States can demand a wartime unity moratorium. Their armies and supplies lead liberation, and unity would accelerate victory.
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France
Yugoslavia
Poland
Italy
Sicily
Germany
Austria-Hungary
Turkey
Greece
Europe
Britain
United States
Hands Across the Sea Explaining U S Political Divisions
An American reporter in England notes Americans seek to explain Republican and Democratic splits to British allies. The piece calls the effort a noble experiment and envisions Britons grasping the New Deal and party factions to overcome barriers to international understanding.
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England
Democratic Party
Roosevelt press conference fades Ward seizure case
President Roosevelt appeared natural at his first post vacation press conference and urged the country to forget the Montgomery Ward seizure episode. He portrayed it as routine while Congress orders investigations, and signaled the case would end once the union vote is held.
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Washington
Roosevelt
South
Montgomery Ward
Congress
War Labor Board
Smith-Connally
Sewell Avery
Army
Navy
Presidnt
Department of Commerce
Mr. Roosevelt
Marshall Proposes Division to Oversee War Construction Spending
Peter Edson reports on the creation of a Procure ment and Construction Inspections division in the Office of the Inspector General to monitor the costs and efficiency of wartime building and procurement programs. The piece notes Senate Truman Committee findings of waste in the 1941 camp program and ordnance plant projects and debates over the inspector general's report and confidentiality.
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National Defense
George C. Marshall
Inspector General
Army
Senate
Wolf Creek
Milan
Tenn
Truman
War Department
Office of the
Athens Officials Attend White House Reception for Warm Springs Fund
Mayor Len B McCune traveled from Washington to the White House for a Shoreham Hotel banquet representing Athens at the Warm Springs Foundation Fund presentation to President Roosevelt. Eva Welch Frances Palmer and Gladys Van Dyke joined the Business and Professional Women’s Club. A drought ending wind and rain storm hit the Athens district after about a month. The Grand Encampment of the Loyal Order of Moose sponsored an educational film showing homes and temples of the organization nationwide.
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Len B. McCune Permet
Athens
Washington D. C
White House
Shoreham Hotel
Warm Springs Foundation
Roosevelt
Eva Welch
Frances Palmer
Gladys van Dyke
Business and Professional Women’s Club
Chamber of Commerce
The
Order of 1.0.C.F
China at risk as Henan drive threatens vast interior lines
The article warns that a Japanese push in Henan Province could threaten Chiang Kai-Shek's remaining war resources and Chungking. It notes the aim to control the Peiping Canton Railway, the danger to Allied plans, and mentions Admiral King’s assessment of Japan’s weakened navy and shrinking merchant fleet. It also cites a London Standard report of British submarines preparing a strike on Japan’s sea routes.
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China
Henan
Great Yellow River
Peiping-Hankow-Canton
Chiang Kai-Shek
Chungking
Chiang
United Nations
Japan
Peiping-Canton
Ernest J. King
United States
Nippon
London Evening Standard
Far East
Blue Lake News Briefs Highlights Local But Quiet
Mrs. M E Miller remains ill. Various residents and families visit, including the Hazlett and Sheets clans. Robert Hazlett enters the army and Sgt Herman Simms returns from furlough. Church services at Elizabeth Chapel begin at 8 30 p m Eastern War Time.
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Blue Lake
M. E. Miller
Elmer Weatherholt
Barboursville
Mollie Kemp
Nina Dorton
Gallipolis
Willavene Sheets
Russell Sheets
Robert Hazlett
James Hazlett
W. E. Stelle
Marmet
W. Va
Oliver Wells
Everett McCarty
Point Pleasant
Stanley Saffren
Suffron
Sara Craig
Myroe Hazlett
Dorothy
Winfield
Eddie Hazlett
Camp Chaffee, Ark
Betty Lou Baker
John Noles
Herman Simms
Camp Barkley
Texas
Elizabeth Chapel
Pearl McCarley
Miss Louise Price Visits from New York to Athens
Miss Louise Price head of the National Girl Scout camp in New York City spent the weekend with her mother at 25 Elmwood Place after attending the National Girl Scout convention in Chicago. The Mari etta district Women’s Home Missionary Society held its annual convention at the First Methodist Church of Athens with Mrs. L. G. Bean presiding. Athens County health officials vaccinated 900 residents against smallpox in Gloucester. ten cases had appeared.
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Louise Price
New York City
Anna K. Price
Elmwood Place
Miss Price
Chicago
Ill
Marietta
Women's Home Missionary Society
First Methodist Church of
Athens
L. G. Bean
Glouster
J. M. Higgins
Athens County
West Columbia Personals Signal Homecomings and Visits
West Columbia notices list Marshall Riley expected home on furlough from the Army to spend time with his parents Mr and Mrs Pat Riley and family. The column notes Albert Brumley funeral services in Middleport Ohio for 39 year old husband and father, with survivors. It also records multiple visits and furloughs among local residents including Navy and Army members visiting relatives across Mason City Pomeroy and Charleston with family gatherings in Middleport and Pt. Pleasant.
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West Columbia
Marshall Riley
Pat Riley
U. B
Albert Brumley
Middleport
Ray
Pt. Pleasant
Homer Johnson
Mason City
Ross Kapp
Leonard Hagerman
Hobson Shops
Carl Hagerman
Charleston
W. Va
Gladys Rily
Bill Spears
Georgie True
William Sprouse
Jimmy Shell
Baby Jimmy
Will Shell
Shirley Ann Riley
Omey Kerwood
Kaylong
Bud Stewart
Fannie Frances
Jimmy Kerwood
Pomeroy
Russell Ferguson
Maud Sprouse
Hallwood
Middleport Thursday. Pvt
Carl R. Stewart
Camp Beale
Calif
Vanda Watkins
Ted Riley
Courtright Navigates Escape Plot in War Zone
Tilda Courtright moves through an inn and garden toward Monk's boat, fearing failure to save Link and Norma. Captain Azaraski schemes, pressuring her to reveal Link’s knowledge of Norma’s brother, while warning of delays at the inn. The scene hints at a broader plan to flee Japan via Russia.
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Tilda Courtright
Norma
Link
Iowa
Japanese Educational Department
Pearl Harbor
Japan
Azaraski
Greer
Lincoln Belt
Baldwin
Monk
Russia
Courtright
Captain Azaraski
Portland News Notes highlights visits and relocations
Portland notes record visits by Staff Sgt. Marvin Swart and family from Camp Forest Tenn. Local residents and relatives from Columbus Parkersburg and Pomeroy are listed with moves, furloughs, and social visits. Mentions of blood donors stock sale trips and a wartime wedding.
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Portland
Clarence Price
Patsy
W. C. Moser
Columbus
Marvin Swart
Camp Forest Tenn
Harry Swan
Raymond Hood
Pomeroy
W. C. Nohe
Parkersburg
Lillian Slaughter
East Liverpool
James Slaughter
William Carr
Pittsburgh
Kelch
New Portland
Fagan Price
Clarence
Great Bend Road
Grange Hall
William McKelvey
Ralph McDade
Phoeba Bell
Henry Kerns
Gallipolis
Bell
Albert Deems
Athens
W. E. McDade
Lily Smith
Weston
W. Va
Paul Paynter
Camp Bowie
Texas
Mary Dean
Sgt
Ed Fields
Colorado
Glen Panter
Ohio River
Okey Paynter
Kate Mills
California
Ed Price
Abner Price
Roy Cox
Charleston
J. M. Cox
Funeral for Clarence Robertson Jr. in Oak Hill
Funeral service held Sunday in Oak Hill West Virginia for Clarence Robertson Jr 21 of the U S Air Force killed in a training plane crash He was the son grandson and nephew of local families and would have earned his wings in about two weeks. Other local notices include relatives visiting and a Camp Gordon operation status for Sgt Martin McKibben and Pvt Edgar Egleberry both mentioned with hospital stays and leg fractures.
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Elmer McKibben
Sgt
Martin McKibben
Camp Gordon
Georgia
Ira Egleberry
Pvt
Edgar Egleberry
Okla
Onel Johnson
Emmett Johnson
Emmett Willard
Chillicothe
Charles Vansky
Forest Dearth
Putnam Chapel
Effie Ward
Homer Chapman
St. Mary's
Zaleski
Frank Hayes
Stevenson
Ward
Norma Gregory Tucker
Wetaskiwin
Alberta
Floria Robertson
Tomahawk
James
Albert Pennell
Middleport
W. G. Betz
James McKibben
Columbus
C. E. Atkinson
C. E. Vansky
Emma Vansky
Athens
Clara Potts
Friend
John Potter
Eastern Star Inspection
McArthur
Della Schneider
Milt Pierce
Woodrow Thomas
Lois Jean Egleberry
Guysville
New Plymouth Social Notes Highlights Local Visits
New Plymouth residents and relatives are noted in a series of social updates. John McGa McArthur visitors, extended visits by Mrs. William Gibbons, Maggie Haas returning from Crestine, and Earle Heinlein at a board of health meeting. Others include Cloyd Bardain of Camp Campbell, Ruth Hawk optical appointment in Athens, and social calls at Logan and Duke Hospital.
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New Plymouth
John McGa
McArthur
William Gibbons
Arthur
Gallipolis
Maggie Haas
Roa Lee
Crestine
John McGathey
Earle
Earle Heinlein
Board of Health
L. G. Souders
Earle Franz
Duke Hospital
Durham
N. C
Pinehurst
Fred Mowrey
Ethel
Edna Cherry
Orland
Set
Cloyd Bardain
Camp Campbell
Luther Bardain
Ruth Hawk
Athens
Juanita Mount
Union Furnace
Ruth Cherry
Boney Weede
Charles Auchner
Carbondale
C. H. Jones
Larry
S. M. Heinlein
Logan
Heinlein
Kenneth Bright
Dorothy Heinlein
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Key
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Angers
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North Sea
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By Dewitt MacKenzie
Hitler
Galbraith
Tomare
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Gibraltar
Rock of Gibraltar
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