Classified notices and subscription rates from The Messenger
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Associated Press
Ohio
Messenger
Athens
John W. Cullen Company
Chicago
New York
Collumous
Toward simpler taxation signals big tax reform vote
A 358 to 0 House vote endorses simplified tax rules ahead of March 15 1945. The plan cuts extraneous brackets keeping about a 10 percent standard deduction with a $500 cap and a 15 percent option for those with losses. Treasury arithmetic replaces many calculations though costs and future changes remain uncertain.
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Voice of
House
Senate
Treasury
G-5 plans civil governance for liberated Europe
First reports praise G-5 corps of civil government specialists for faster, clearer postwar administration. The plan aims to hand over local government duties, install capable leaders, and avoid disrupting military operations, with France guided by the National Committee of Liberation and other nations treated by their expatriate or royal groups.
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Europe
Italy
Germany
France
G-5
National Committee of Liberation
Belgium
Netherlands
Denmark
Norway
BOGEY MAN AND A WARD’S POSTER CASE
The piece recalls Paul D. Lowell, a mild Wards executive, arrested for tearing a government poster. His prosecution was dropped at the government’s request, amid talk of ends of justice. The author likens Roosevelt’s chiding to the controversy and imagines Uncle Sam as a Chicago gangster hiding under beds.
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Roosevelt
Montgomery Ward
Paul D. Lowell
Lowell
Wards
Chicago
Uncle Sam
Battle of the In Laws England Denies Divorce
A British court refuses a war worker’s divorce on grounds of cruelty and rules the English husband alone decides who may enter the home. The ruling targets in laws and signals a harsh precedent likely to inflame mothers in law and strain domestic life during wartime.
Labor unions slow tire production for military trucks
Labor union restrictions on tire production hinder war effort as rubber firms urge War Manpower Commission to boost output. Companies warn trucks will face delays as unions resist accelerating work, with absenteeism rising and skilled workers blocked from higher paid jobs. The Army may be asked to repatriate experienced tire workers.
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Washington
War Manpower Commission
War Production Board
Serft Joseph Keenan
A. F. of L
Akron
Army
Navy
Edson Looks at Looming International Bureaucracy
Peter Edson warns of a growing international bureaucracy amid wartime postwar planning. He cites 75 to 100 bodies, funding cuts, and agencies like Lend-Lease UNRRA and war crimes commissions, forecasting a complex web that may outlive the conflict.
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Combined Raw Materials Board
Comined Shipping Adjustment Board
Combined Production and Resources Board
Combined Food Board
Lend-Lease Administration
UNRRA
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
Commission For the Investigation of
War Relief Control Board
International
Horse ‘Thief Protective Association
Allies Break Through Cassino Line In Italy And Take Myitkyina
Allied forces report a solid victory at Cassino with a forced German withdrawal from the Gustav Line as Japanese defenses in northern Burma fall. Myitkyina Airfield is captured by American and Chinese troops, with Brigadier General Merrill and General Stilwell driving toward the city to link Burma and Ledo roads before the monsoon.
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Cassino
Italy
Myitkyina
Burma
Detroit Foreman
Gustav Line
Adolf Hitler
Rome
Hitler
Anzio
Ledo
China
India
Frank Merrill
Joe) Stilwell
Mary Page dies at 94 in Gravel Hill Middleport
Mrs. Mary Page of Gravel Hill Middleport dies at 94, the town's oldest resident. Other items note Athens County dental clinic, Logan shoe factory sale, honors at Athens High School, and a 20 year retrospective on local and state events.
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Mary Page
Gravel Hill
Middleport
Athens High School
Jean Pickens
Ruth Gerwig
Virginia McVay
June Fultz
Pauline Kimes
Charles Sias
Helen Hayes
Elmore Hitchcock
Perry County Court Notes Report
Fourteen indictments were kept by the Perry County grand jury last week with eight secret. Juries eyed county jail needs, and a tax tally shows Perry County receipts of 1 044 84 for the week ending April 22 pushing the year total to 19 124 36. Foreman Ambrose Hillis led the panel.
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New Lexington
Perry County
Ambrose Hillis
County Recorder's
Marine Corps
Everett Eveland County Auditor
Lawrence Edw. Guisnler
Somerset
William Spicer
Sylvia Weaver
Corning
Frank Urban
Dan Hoops
Crooksville
Lawrence Roy
Junction City
Courtright and Azaraski scheme under cover of night
Link overhears Courtright meet Captain Azaraski and Baldwin as tension rises over a coded message. Courtright's risk, Norma and Link's concern, and fears of betrayal entwine with plans to steal loot after the war. The trio’s intentions threaten justice and safety at the inn.
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Courtright
Azaraski
Baldwin
Link
Norma
Japan
Goodbys
Tilda Courtright
Captain Azaraski
Roger Baldwin
McArthur Alumni Banquet Plans Set at High School
Plans are under way for the McArthur alumni banquet and dance at the high school on Saturday May 27 at 6 30 p m No undergraduates may attend. The executive committee includes J W Saltz Florence Lantz Wrightsel Blanche Martin Howell and others with committees for initiation program dance publicity and more Individuals named include Mrs L W Pilcher Mary Robbins Maude Bunyan Esmont Jean Will Chapman and Paul Wrightsel among several others.
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McArthur
L. W. Pilcher
J. W. Saltz
Florence Lantz Wrightsel
Blanche Martin Howell
Bernadine Peck Stevens
Ethel Fri Saltz
Gerda Howell
Helen Ann Cozad
Mary Robbins
Maud
Dexter Social And Personal Items Highlight Local Guests
Dexter residents noted visits and gatherings as families and friends hosted relatives from Columbus Charleston and Dayton. The community mourned Howard Folden with a large funeral attended by kin and neighbors as F C Folden resigned as section foreman and Clarence Foley took the post.
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Dexter
Garland Weaver
Chicago
Pomeroy
J . W. Weaver
Howard Folden
Dyesville
Folden
Tom Folden
Imogene Arrowood
Huntington
Max Smith
Homer West
Lee Jones
Dexter Creek
Cash Braley
Columbus
Lewis Saxton
Harley Carr
Cherry Ridge
Robert Livingston
Portsmouth
C. Cook
Helen
Sarah Hampton
Carpenter
Walter Hampton
Helena
Clair Blizzard
Dayton
Lillie Minor
Ruth Nicholson
Wade
Johnson
Peach Ridge
Athens
Alonzo Glaze
Homer Glaze
Herbert Glaze
Camp Edwards
Mass
Anna Glaze
Christian Col’ Ve
Atlantic, Ga
Grandifter
Sys. Thomas
Middleport
Nordie Folden
Toledo
Dawn Burkhart
Oren Roush
Cheshire
Samuel Baker
Rutland 4 H Club Elects Officers and Plans Nutrition Project
The Rutland 4 H Club met May 16 led by Mrs. Whitney Ingraham electing Maxine Siders president Nancy Buck vice president Janet Theobald secretary Eleanor Myers recreation Lois Taylor news reporter. Eight girls enrolled that evening to form the Rutland All Fox Victory 4 H Club with a nutrition project.
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Rutland
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National Dispatch
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Interim
Commission On Food and Agriculture
Hot Springs
Romania
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R. F. Wichterman
Athens County Child Health and Protection Committee
H. C. Godman Shoe Company
Logan Shoe
FERA
Athens County
William Longstreet
School of Music
Ohio University
Carl Stockdale
The
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House of Representatives
President Coolidge
W. E. Moler
Frank Vorhes
Los Angeles
Calif
New Lexington Savings and Loan Co
Earl W. Bradley
Thelma D. Bradley
Louis F. Wright
Georgia A. Wright
M. S. Leckrone
Evelyn Smits
Margaret D. Cannon
William E. Cannon
Juanita Jane Ferguson
William H. Buckley
John E. Ferguson
Washington D. C
Billie Ferguson
Winston Karl Fink
U. S. Army
New Straitsville
Crete M. Stubbs
Ann Wright
William H. Fora
Loy Max Cooper
Lee A. Loggain
Helen D. Sayre
Ben Johnson
Nellie Ache
R. R. Hammond
Maxine Russell
Joseph Peart
Belle Watts
Balthsaor
J. M. Redfern
Floyd P
Walter Starner
Clara Glass
C. C. Hutchison
Ronald Peyton
Leo
Madeline Kiener
Ohio Power Co
Pleasant Township
Whiten
Ada C. Mauk
Madison Township
Forest King
Clayton Township
By Galbraith
Rcom
G. F. Wrightsel
P. 0. Frye
A. E. Sharp
John Hawk
H. O. Dunkle
C. S
Gallipolis
Dale Jones
Lancaster
John Jones
G. F. Wraghtsel
G. C. Frye
Tamara
G. H. O'Shaughnessy
Betty
Margaret Wrightsel
Buddy Palmer
P. O. Frye
Edith Church
R. B. Will
William Gorsuch
Fort Benning
P. V. Gorsuch
New York State
Rutland 4-H Club
Rutlan All-Fox Victory
Thelma Michael
J. E. Michael
Betty Bush
Leafy Graham
Alpha Plummer
Pauline Markins
Billy Brown
William Reeves
Akorn
Worley Rupe
Dwight Kennedy
Lewis
Robert Kennedy
Bobby
Margaret Kauff
Ed Kenney
Hallie Kennedy
Jean Miller
Tom Davidson
Sunny
Walter Davidson
Monay
Clyde King
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