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Newspaper
The Rittman Press
Location
Rittman, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1940
Page
6
The Rittman Press, a Democratic weekly, published by The Press Publishing Company in Rittman Ohio details subscription rates at $1.00 annually within Wayne County and $1.50 outside. calls out Tracey as editor and advertising manager with delivery by mail and advertising rates on application.
The article notes chains and independent merchants guiding shoppers through scarce goods and price hikes. Stores offer substitutes and thrifty buying, collaborating with government defense agencies to inform consumers and stretch dollars, aiming to maintain living standards amid shortages.
A concise defense of daily personal liberty, affirming freedom of speech, worship, work, spending, saving, and individual choice. The piece emphasizes small, everyday rights that define American liberty and resist coercion. It frames liberty as the right to choose how to live, worship, work, and engage with others without kowtowing to authorities.
In a wartime pledge, Walter D. Fuller and William P. Witherow of the National Association of Manufacturers vow industrial power to support victory. They insist industry will build two battleships per sunk, replace bombs with dozens, and flood the skies with planes, constrained only by worker endurance, uniting Americans across class and creed in a singular push for swift victory.
A fragmented OCR fragment recalls a case of a California murderer where the conviction was reversed because the indictment failed to state that the smurdized man was a human being. The piece hints at law confusion over personhood and the use of an inanimate object in legal wording.
Britain’s Prime Minister Churchill arrives in Washington for talks with the United States War Council and allied advisers. A side-by-side press conference with President Roosevelt outlines broad wartime strategy and upcoming conferences. The report notes plans to police germ centers after the war and details on mobilizing civilian plants to cut nonessential output for war needs.
The Navy Department reports 14 U submarine sinkings or damages last week and one enemy transport sunk with another possibly sunk, plus one mine sweeper sunk. Enemy submarines reportedly sank three merchant ships and felled two more. Wake Island with 400 officers and 1,000 workers reported captured. An American bomber sunk an enemy submarine off the California coast amid heavy fighting in the Philippines and Manila declared an open city.
A House Committee report after a tour of the American Republics warns Axis airports within bombing reach of the Panama Canal and strategic sites across Brazil. It cites 14 shortwave radios in Guatemala and Nazi sabotage plans for utilities in Buenos Aires with possible Argentina bases. The State Department announces a Cuba trade pact and a Martinique accord, while Hull condemns Free French actions near Canada as unauthorized.
The President told Prime Minister Curtin of Australia that the safety of the commonwealth is a definite essential in every plan of defense, signaling steadfast allied assurances across the emergency defense efforts.
The President approves a plan to merge productive resources of Canada and the United States, including measures to remove TANs and adjust degree assets. Officials say the move aims to streamline cross border operations and boost efficiency.
The Labor Department reported a scan of 18 feeds in 19 cities showed little net change in retail prices during the first half of December. Price Administrator Henderson moved to stabilize leather, sugar, reclaimed rubber, mes and heels, cotton fine goods, glycerin, ethyl alcohol, and dry colors, and asked manufacturers of china, glass, lamp shades, watches and silverware to hold prices at December 1 levels.
The OPM announced power shortages will require electrical rationing and pooling across the Southeast Southwest Pacific east and parts of the Middle West during 1942 and 1943. Privately financed defense housing owners must state sale or rent prices, and new orders limit use of lead and tin foil, steel, burlap, wool, cordage, sugar, wire, tires, cars and light trucks.
The OPM Labor Division said the U S will require 3,000,000 more workers for war industries, with a shortage of plant supervisors and skilled trades. War plants now at 4,500,000 workers are expected to reach 9,000,000 by June 1943, to be met by mobilizing women, Negroes, foreign born, older workers, and those displaced from civilian jobs.
Agriculture Secretary Wickard says 1942 production goals rise for milk pork beef canned veterans peanuts soybeans wheat cotton and tobacco with war demand. He notes the millionth ton of American aid to Britain under lend-lease has arrived safely despite U S entry into war.
New York reports show Christmas shopping shrinking from early expectations as shoppers favor practical items for GI needs and luxury goods drop. U.S. rationing moves will prioritize durable goods like refrigerators and washing machines, with potential expansion to textiles and clothing depending on army needs. Government agencies reassure ample food supplies and urge anti hoarding. Gas octane may fall to 72 percent under voluntary plant adjustments to conserve materials and support war effort.
Du Pont chemists plan to substitute plastics for metal in several typewriter parts. The USDA reports asparagus stalk fiber can be made into insulating wall panels. A handbag with a Reader's Digest compartment is noted. Eastman Kodak announces a consumer color photo film called Kodskegler to be released early in 1942.
The church plans midweek prayer and praise for the old year on Wednesday at 7 30 PM and invites members and Sunday School to attend. A new slate of Sunday School officers will be installed next Sunday morning, with the elementary department attending the 10 30 AM service for a second story sermon titled The River and the Beat. Evening services begin 7 30 PM with a five night study of I Thessalonians, a winter Communion service on January 1 at 6 30 AM, and Universal Prayer Week January 4-9 featuring daily one hour services. The church opens the new year with prayer for God’s guidance in 1942, good music, fellowship, and welcome for all.
Unified service from 9 30 to 11 15 am with Sunday School 10 30 to 11 15 am. Harold Henry superintendent. Young People meeting 6 45 pm. Miss Eveyn Schaffter leads a program. Prayer meeting Wednesday 7 30 pm. Cottage Prayer meeting Friday at Mr and Mrs J W Ott 195 North State Street.
Milton Presbyterian Church invites the community to a Week of Prayer starting Sunday January 4 1942 with 915 am Bible School and 630 pm Young People societies. Evening worship begins 730 pm with nightly prayer services Monday through Friday featuring sermons on The Son of the Living God The Spirit of the Living God The Church of the Living God The Book of the Living God and The Worship of the Living God.
Public Notices are crucial in publication, rights affected, and public affairs. They bind those publishing and those affected, shaping public business and policy while restraining action, underscoring the enduring value of public notice in law and politics.
The Church of the Nazarene led by Pastor Arthur J Griffith invites all to Sunday School at 9 00 am and Morning Worship at 10 00 am with a Twenty Service at 7 39 pm Prayer Meeting Wednesday at 7 30 pm Sunday texts Acts 1 11 and James 3 2 focus on Our Blessed Hope and a Perfect Man The church asks for prayers for wisdom protection of the boys and souls in need of God s help and affirms that victory comes through Jesus Christ with God on our side.
St Ann’s Church announces priest Father John T. Farrell will lead Sunday Mass at 8 a m and a high mass at 10 a m highlighting parish services.
Rittman Church of Christ announces Bible School at 9:30 with Ralph Fixler as superintendent. Morning worship and communion at 10. Sermon by the pastor. Young People’s Service at 8:45. Evening worship with special music and sermon. Wednesday prayer service at 7:30 and choir practice at 7:30.
Arthur Carey pastor leads The First Brethren Church in worship with Bible School at 9 30 led by superintendent Bro Maynard Blatter. U P S orchestra opens service. Morning worship at 10 30 features The Fourth Message of Malachi. Evening C E at 6 30 with hymns chorus and meditations on Christian life.
The Church of Christ Conservative will gather for worship next Sunday at 10 30 a m in the hall over the Kroger Grocery store.
The article stresses strict adherence to legal provisions for Public Notice in all cases and advocates extending them where needed. It argues that public and private rights can only be properly safeguarded through full compliance.
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