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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 18, 1945
Page
4
Fragmented OCR from The Athens Messenger shows advertising, subscription pricing, and postal info. Contains names, rates, and service options, including mail subscriptions and single copies. Assorted agency and foreign office references appear, with unclear details due to text quality.
Allied prisoners recount brutalities in Japan revealing a hypocritical, deceitful wartime culture. Critics blame Tokyo bureaucrats for defeat while editors warn occupation must remain vigilant. MacArthur censorship shapes early reeducation, with war criminals to face trial and radical systemic change urged to prevent a repeat.
Officers at Army separation centers note many veterans delay using job counseling and hesitate to seek work after war. In Cleveland 50 000 unemployed with 21 000 unemployment applications. 10 000 jobs await. Prolonged vacations and strikes hinder economic rebound. rapid placement is urged to sustain postwar growth.
A Texas implement dealer who drove a new tractor from Detroit to Weimer, Texas has attracted notice as a hardy highway pioneer. Observers wonder if the 1,574 mile journey in four days was done by coach and if comfort influenced the choice of home-going conveyance.
Washington notes public records reveal behind the scenes at the Paris peace talks mirror postwar fears today about German terms. The 1919 agreement drew sharp protest from Lansing and Wilson, and critics warn that punitive provisions and reliance on the League of Nations could provoke future conflicts.
Peter Edson recounts postwar push for government funded science in Congress. Kilgore's evolving science mobilization proposals face patent access fights, Bush recommendations, and a July 19 Bush report prompting Magnuson to introduce a matching National Research Foundation bill.
Community notes from Coolville and nearby towns list a Sunday evening song service at Coolville Methodist Church, a September 23 100th anniversary celebration at Hockingport Church with a basket lunch and Gospel Singers from Belpre, and various church happenings. Also mentions dinners, visits, and a funeral service with attendees from St. Petersburg Cleveland Par nersburg and Parkersburg.
DEWITT MACKENZI argues that US led plan to place Italy's African colonies under international trusteeship could secure Mediterranean stability and avert Mussolini inspired aggression. He notes Libya and Ethiopia as signs of expansion and calls for timely UN safeguards.
A column recaps social travel and visit notes from ten years ago. Mr and Mrs L H Bingman and children Mary Elizabeth and Donald spent a weekend in Washington DC. Betty Hoyt McCoy Carolyn Fuller Robert Wickham and Francis Fuller visited Gladys Brooks at Buckeye Lake. Roy C Shirley returned from visits to Jim s Dayton and Columbus. F W Bush who toured Europe sailed to America on Sept 6.
Mr and Mrs J E Bailey of Hotel Betry tour Pittsburgh and eastern cities on vacation. Mr and Mrs Richard Dickinson and Mr and Mrs H W Link visit Columbus. Brig Gen James R Weaver freed from a Manchuria camp plans to visit Port Clinton where many in his tank company family reside.
Amesville notes report the first PTA meeting will be held Tuesday September 18 with the 4 H Clubs in charge. The Esther Class will be entertained Friday September 21 at the home of Mr Exile Turner, with Miss Myrtie and Jessie Lorts assisting hostesses. Home from service this week include William Clark Carl Ant Rex Quinn Keith Dishong Bob Dishong and Paul Jones.
Mr and Mrs C E Salvert hosted a dinner honoring newlyweds Mr and Mrs Cooper Strausbaugh of Wilkesville. Other guests included Mr and Mrs Murville Moore and daughter of Parkersburg, Mrs Flora Davidson and son, and Mr and Mrs Wayne Cleland of London.
Carolyn confronts Leana Sormi and Bob Hale with tension over a secret project X-999. Carolyn decides to stay in the fledgling lab job as plans turn to move the device out west to a remote site, leveraging power lines and geography. Bob recalls Colorado roots and hints at cowboy competence as they plot the next move.
Waterloo Township School opened for the fall term on September 10 with 365 students enrolled across Waterloo High School New Marshfield Elementary Mineral Elementary and two junior high schools. Faculty lists include Gordon Thompson as principal and several instructors. bus drivers and custodians are named. The board approved repairs and new acquisitions including a bus garage and a gasoline tank installation and stage curtain repairs at the high school auditorium.
Birmingham England physicist Prof M E Oliphant urged that scientists who built the atomic bomb would not have used it, if left to scientists alone. He predicted atomic energy would be used industrially within ten years and would eventually replace all other forms.
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