WVOW Receives Army Navy E Award for TNT Production
West Virginia Ordnance Works at Point Pleasant earns the Army Navy E for excellence in TNT production. More than 5,000 workers built the plant along the Ohio River, delivering high yield with low absenteeism and strong worker-management cooperation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Virginia Ordnance Works
Point Pleasant
Middle West
WVOW
United Nations
Ohio River
General Chemical Defense Corporation
Fighting Sons and Daughters
Mason County
Dream Realized by All American Air Mail Service
All American Aviation expands air mail in Athens and across six states. From two experimental routes in 1939 to five routes serving 118 communities including the District of Columbia, the service has flown over three million miles with high safety and profit for the Post Office Department. The growth reflects nationwide air mindedness and boosts domestic air transport.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
All American Aviation, Inc
Athens
Post Office Department
All American
District of Columbia
Ohio University
Middle West
Ohio seeks street and battleship in Washington honors
A letter urges Congress to name a Washington street and a battleship after Ohio. The writer argues Ohio deserves representation alongside other states and notes political delays and a cynical view of the capital’s current mood while hoping for future action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Ohio
Ohio Avenue
Rhode Island
New Jersey
Jenkins
Mr. Jenkins
Dies Committee end not the real danger to America
Washington report argues Martin Dies quits not from health but due to pressure from the CIO and notes the Dies Committee was backed by groups like the American Legion and AFL. It warns that a new anti un American activity committee will form and keep spotlight on alleged subversives despite Dies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Martin Dies
Texas
Dies
C.so
C.1.o
C.lo
Dies Committee
House of Representatives
American Legion
American Federation of Labor
Daughters of the American Revolution
America
Martin
Roosevelt
Congressional
Karl Marx
Stalin
Postwar Wichita faces reconversion and jobs shift
Peter Edson notes Wichita's postwar challenges including reconversion, demobilization, and a looming job spike as war workers must find new roles. The city, via the Postwar Planning Committee of the Chamber of Commerce, surveys 55 000 workers with 43 000 replies showing one third likely to leave or quit, and only half of remaining men and a quarter of women wanting factory work.
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Kansas
Chamber of Commerce
CED
PWPC
Paul G. Hoffman
Studebaker
Kansas City
Wichita
Wichita Chamber of Commerce
Washington Agency
Commencement Notes and Local Developments in Glouster Area
The Glouster High School graduation list includes 24 girls and 22 boys with Rev. O P Smith and Principal L G De Long among the speakers. Ohio attorney general John W Bricker is noted, along with Mary Virginia Hewitt preparing to marry Howard J Schlereth and depart for the Philippines.
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Glouster High School
O. P. Smith
Thelma Ley
Helene Binderbasin
Robert Ochs
Charles Rogers
Marcella Jonas
Gladys Sikorski
L. G. de Long
Thomas W. Figley
A. W. Kessler
Secret cyclone cellar in Singapore hides bank assets
Norma and Link discover a coded clue about Kip Greer’s movable assets hidden under Tom Fung’s Singapore house. They suspect Japs may locate the treasure but search rooms and odd spaces for a covert microphone as Courtright explains New information points to millions in Greer funds stored abroad. The pursuit continues.
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Norma
Symantha
Link
Tom Fung
Singapore
Kip
Courtright
Azaraski
Man Courtright
Am Corps
Tilda Courtright
Kip Greer
Greers
Invasion War News and German Resolve
The article weighs the timing of Nazi surrender after the Allied invasion. It notes German morale, fears of Fortress Europe failing, and forecasts a brutal battle ahead. It cites psychologist Norman Maier predicting liquidation of Hitler once invasion succeeds, while stressing German and Russian manpower contrasts.
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Hitler
Norman R. F. Maier
University of Michigan
Munich
Maier
Germany
Fuehrer
Europe
Reichswehr
Bishopville Social Notes and Remembrances
A Bishopville column recalls Saint Peter’s legacy and a prayer for a weary pastor, laments illness among residents, and notes social visits. It records brief community updates, birthdays, a local election count, and furloughs from a southern camp.
Boy Missing as Winters Stay Ends in Bodo Darkness
The poem fragment notes Pete kneeling with a prayer for a boy who went away and sets the scene in Bodo Norway during the first half of December when the town experiences no sun, highlighting a somber mood amid polar night.
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Pete
Heaven
Leda Sams
Bodo
Carbon Hill Baccalaureate and Commencement Plans
Baccalaureate services for Ward Rural High School graduates will be at the Christian Church Sunday evening May 14 with Rev. L. E. Evans of Nelsonville delivering the sermon. Commencement exercises are set for May 19 at the high school auditorium with a long list of graduates.
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Carbon Hill
Ward Rural High School
Christian Church
L. E. Evans
Nelsonville
High School
Kathryn Jane Altman
Edna Marie Brooks
Edward Lester Donley
Dannie Mark Devol
Robert Arthur Eckels
Alice Mae Evans
Raymond Keith Hawk
Roberta Ann Hardy
Vallie Evans Johnson
Virgil Sharb
Addie June
Sylvia Thorne
Lester Briley
John Lanning
Columbus
Will Briley
Mike Corby
Pearl Keck
Newark
L. A. Blosser
Jack Hicks
Florence Lanning
Dayton
David Devol
Charleston
S. C
Cameron Brooker
Andrew Brooker
Clyde Campbell
Kansas
Radcliff Boy War Prisoner Writes Home
Mrs Hannah Gregory received a letter from her son S Sgt Orlin O Gregory a war prisoner in Austria dated Jan 26 noting he was well and uninjured He was among five crew members saved when their B 17 was shot down near Bordeaux France on Dec 31 Air Medal awarded to him was received by his mother Other items include community notices and local movements in Radcliff Ohio and nearby towns with residents traveling for medical care undergoing operations and attending events.
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Frank Dailey
Middleport
Harmon Foxx
Pomeroy
Fletcher Sizemore
Gt. Lakes
Naval Hospital
Floyd Perry
David Dixon
Roy Wright
Faye Fendleton
Garfield Dodrill
Columbus
McArthur
Harvey Roof
Dundas
E. N. Canade
Fermin Boring
Springfield
Carl Cottrill
Elizabeth Wells
Neva Rutherford
John Hector
Hannah Gregory
Jackson Center
Rutland Church Services and Local Social News
The Star Grange will attend church Sunday in a body with service at 10:30. Mrs. Harold Miller and others visited a mobile blood bank in Athens May 5. Jean Plummer and Darrell Burson wed at the Christian parsonage and will live in Dayton. Various residents report furloughs, visits, moves, and family updates across Rutland and nearby towns.
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Rutland
Star Grange
Lawrence Schmidt
Mobile Blood Bank
Athens
Harold Miller
Paul Barnes
Bernard Ledlie
Elsie Deem
Edna Maye Swick
Geo. Koch
Thomas Porter
Junior Schoonover
Freda Schoonover
Betty Buck
Leah Graham
Columbus
Mae Ball
France Welsh
Harrisonville
Hattie McKenzie
Jean Plummer
Darrell Burson
Christian Parsonage
Dayton
Burson
Lewis Kennedy
John Standley
Lee
Terry Dennison
Terry
Akron
Bob Hill
Will Lanning
Blain Giles
C Johnson
Col
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Rick
David Lawrence
National Dispatch
Peter Edson
Kan
John W. Bricker
Mary Virginia Hewitt
Howard J. Schlereth
Philippine Islands
Marshfield Telephone Company
S.E.G. Pedigo
Athens Home Telephone Company
Harry McKinstry
Fish and Game
Athens Chamber of Commerce
William M. Williams
A. A. Wolfe
A. T. Lawhead
H. Z. Foster
Scott Haney
H. S. Larch
Allen Kresge
C. W. Cross
F. X. Rauch
Frank Murphy
W. N. Alderman
Ray Slaughter
Ted Parker
J. M. Higgins
R. S. Southerton
Shade River
Athens County
Chauncey
Kircher
Rhodes
Batteries
Syx
Thomas
Athens Masonry
Masonic Temple
Union and
College Sts
Lastro
Floyd Evans
Depot St
Logan
Greer
Japan
BY Dewitt MacKenzie
Bishopville Social Notes
Poet's Corner
Messenger
Edward I. Stanley
Saint Peter
Laura Chase Foster
Columbus, D
Bishopville
J. M. McDonald
Jane Radcliff
Jessie M. Wilson
Miss Wilson
Tues
Miles E. Hoon
New Marshfield
William
Battle
Anna Smith
Katzenbach
Merle Danford
Trimble
Jessie Wilson
Lucy Pedicord
Jane Roberts
East Branch
Roberts
Gerald Pedicord
William Foura
Corning
Dean Fedicord
Ferndale
By Galbraith
Nee Envige
Ernest Wells
English Court
Holzer Hospital
Earl H. Arnett
Wells
Radcliff Boy
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