Secret conferences prompt calls for Congress to stay in session
Raymond Clapper argues for ongoing congressional sessions amid a White House secrecy debate. He recalls 1916 Sun Rise Conference and Colonel House diplomacy, warning that secret talks risk misguiding the public and urging openness and accountability.
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Washington
Congress
White House
Senator Borah
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Rep
Ham Fish
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Roosevelt
Looming World Struggle Shapes US Neutrality View
A 1939 editorial argues Nazi Soviet pact clarifies them as lootering gangsters while urging the United States to defend its free government. It warns darker times ahead, supports arms policy flexibility, and calls for united neutrality and open trade with neutrals to avoid aiding belligerents. It laments fascist and communist infection and urges vigilance to keep out of war while preserving national existence.
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United States
Hitler
Stalin
Roosevelt
Old World
Congress
America
Washington
World Brotherhood of Man
Orient
Europe
Hitler Heads to Mountain Retreat Again
Rome cancels its convention of the Congress for Protection of Babies. The country faces a bad year for unprotected infants as the mountain retreat option looms or a shift in command may bring the summit to him.
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Hitler
Rome
Congress For Protection of Babies
Bruce Catton Surveys Washington Scene
Washington reports Japan seeks a permanent understanding with the United States on its terms including recognition of its conquests in China and Manchukuo. Hull Horinouchi talks are public. Go represents a private push for harmony. He sees no Philippine takeover and favors continued Chinese trade rights to aid a pacified China. Russia pact cited as aiding harmony. Byrd pursues the South Pole voyage with no penguin submarine sightings yet.
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Washington
America
Japan
United States
China
Manchukuo
Toshi Go
New York
Philippines
Pacific
Mr. Go
Russia
Answers and Facts From The Messenger Information Bureau
A reader asks about the American Arthritis Society the Norris Dam dates and level the old Dechard rifles state governors term limits U S school attendance wind resistance for smokestacks congressional Negroes in Congress Mauretania fate and window behavior in explosions. The Bureau provides concise responses with named individuals dates and places where available.
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American Arthritis Society
American Society For the Study of Arthritis
Reginald Burbank
E. 78Th St
New York
N. Y
United States
Norris Dam
Louisiana
Mississippi
Missouri
New Jersey
New Mexico
North Carolina
Oklahoma
Pennsylvania
Virginia
Congress
Arthur W. Mitchell
Illinois
Public Forum Letter Urges Retaining Arms Embargo
A reader from Guysville argues against repealing the arms embargo urging readers to write to the President and lawmakers to maintain neutrality. The letter cites Sen Taft and Churchill and warns that lifting the embargo profits war makers and risks U S involvement, urging adherence to the Neutrality Act.
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the Messenger
U. S
Europe
Roosevelt
Sen. Donahey
Jenkins
Taft
Winston Churchill
England
America
Germany
Churchill
A. M. Weisenbach
Guysville, Sept
Resignation Clears Trustee Seats in Ward Township
R H Brown reports Charles Foster has resigned as Ward Township trustee after taking state highway department work. Frank Cook and Adam Sanborn remain trustees. With no justice of peace, the Probate Judge must appoint Foster’s successor. Brown notes desire for a Ward Township justice and criticizes Foster and Sanborn for delaying the appointment.
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the Messenger
Charles Foster
Ward Township
State Highway Department
Frank Cook
Adam Sanborn
Highway Department
Foster
Corning Social Notes and Club Activities
The Corning column lists a M E Sunday School picnic at Idaway Park Grounds at 5 45 p m Friday with a ham burger and wiener roast and a small fee for attendees. Also notes Euchre Club prizes and a meeting with Rev George G Shurtz as out of town speaker and special music by the men. A Golden Rule Class soup supper is planned at U S church basement on Saturday Sept 23 serving from 4 p m.
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M. E
Idaway Park
George G. Shurtz
308Th Regiment Engineers
Camp Sherman
U. S
Rebekahs Invite to Murray City Odd Fellows Meeting
Members of the Sherwood Chapter Rebekahs are invited to the September meeting of the Odd Fellows Booster Club District 61 in Murray City at 8 00 Friday evening Sept 22. A potluck supper will be served with sandwiches and coffee provided by the Murray City lodge.
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Sherwood Chapter
Rebekahs
Odd Fellows Booster Club
District 61
Murray City
Newly Elected Sunday School Officers Installed
The M. E. Church Sunday school installed officers last Sunday including Superintendent Mrs. Clarence Garrison and assistants Mary Hermey Mary Evans and others. Garrison announces Promotion services on Sunday Sept 24 and Rally Day on October 1.
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M. E. Church
Clarence Garrison
Mary Hermey
Mary Evans
Ruth Spence
Jacqueline Lamb
Eloise Theisen
Ruth Ann Thomas
Elsie Exenkemper
Delcie Spence
Eugene Pierce
Joe Briggs
Juanita Pierce
Garnet Meyers
Mable Dunlap
Mable Ballis
Lorene Penrod
Robert Conley
Garrison
Pocahontas District School of Instruction Friday Program
Leoneta Chapter of Pocahontas hosts the District School of Instruction here on Friday October 6 with opening at 1 pm. Dinner served by lodge ladies at 5:30 pm. Evening program at 7:30 pm open to the public features drills and plays by visiting chapters and charter draping. Mrs. Isabella Cowley leads the day’s program.
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School OF Instruction
Leoneta
Pocahontas
District School of Instruction
Lodge
Isabella Cowley
Brotherhood class to lead Sunday services at United Brethren Church
The Men's Brotherhood class will oversee morning services at the United Brethren church with the pastor Rev. A. K. Shonkwiler delivering the sermon as the regular church and Sunday school sessions proceed.
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United Brethren Church
Men's Brotherhood
A. K. Shonkwiler
Memorial Service Scheduled by Sunflower Chapter of Eastern Star
The Sunflower Chapter of Eastern Star will hold memorial services at their regular Monday night meeting in the Masonic temple. A pot luck lunch will follow.
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Sunflower Chapter
Eastern Star
Masonic Temple
Fainting spell reveals unexpected pregnancy in office
Marian Harkness, a working wife, faints at the office after a quarrel with Sally Blake. Doctors reveal she is pregnant and due in early May, disrupting Marian's orderly life and triggering fear about her marriage to Dan. The plot follows her attempt to hide or cope with the news while maintaining control at work.
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Marian Harkness
Dan Marknfess
Dolly Harkness
Dan
Sally Blake
Sally
Marian
Fellows
Mr. Fellows
Miss Herrod
G. F
Dr. Mossin
Intrathoracic Goiter Risk and Surgical Care
Goiter may sit high in the neck or descend into the chest behind the sternum. Deep chest goiters press on the windpipe and neck veins, causing breathing trouble and swelling. Surgeons use X rays to map removal, protect nerves and vessels, and ensure proper aftercare to prevent infection. most patients recover to normal health.
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Morris Fishbein Golter
Ten Years Ago In Town Highlights
Mrs P E Shirley led the Maecenas Literary Club while Ted Preston earned an Eagle Scout badge at First Methodist Church ceremonies. Families McNamee and Buck held their first reunion. Lucille Dowler visited from Columbus with her parents. Wilma Welsh joined The Athens Messenger staff after high school and Ohio University studies. Eagle medals were awarded to Lewis Brown William Moler Gordon Bush Robert Jones Floyd Brown at Court of Honor. Ed Burke’s Bethany Church farm yielded seven ears from one hill. Knowlton Brothers, ex Athens contractors, won school building contracts for Pittsburgh and Fletcher Ohio.
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Clark Hampson
Pat Altier
William Seals
McCuneville
Willard Post
James Diggins
Dickie
Michigan
Mary Frances Post
Lance Fail
Baby of
Lancaster
William Fail
Anna Garrison
Helen Garrison
Lucille Parsons
Maxine Davis
Columbus
Edison Hickman
Berry Hickman
Nelsonville
John Gaitten
Marguerite Pettigrew
Grant Hospital School of Nursing
Hugh Pettigrew
Ernest Foraker
David
Dayton
Clyde Dunlap
Roberta Henry
Bethesda Hospital
Zanesville
Osteopathic Hospital
Marietta
Jessie Pettigrew
True Smith
Wilma Welsh
Athens
I. N. McHarg
The
Athens Messenger
Lewis Brown
William Moler
Gordon Bush
Robert Jones
Floyd Brown
Knowlton Brothers
Pittsburgh
Fletcher
Ohio
Embargo Prayer for Freedom and Courage
Poetic plea urging Congress to lift the embargo in support of liberty and faith. The piece invokes Christian imagery of suffering and a call for national unity against oppression, concluding with a blessing for uplift and duty. The signing appears as BESSIEM GORSLENE.
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Man
Bessiem, Gorslene
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