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Zanesville was the subject of considerable discourse one night last month on a short-wave radio broadcast from Berlin. A number of other Ohio cities, notably Steubenville (the Nazis call it Stoybenville) were also mentioned.Whether Hitler is about to declare a protectorate over his beloved Zahnsville and Stoybenville is not quite dear, although it is apparent that he has established a more valid claim on both cities than he was able to fabricate in behalf of either Copenhagen or Oslo.Perhaps you are interested to know what this is all about. Well, it so happens that Berlin's most important short-wave station broadcasts weekly propaganda messages about the German inhabitants of foreign lands.One night recently, the broadcast dealt with theGerman immigration into the Ohio valley .at the beginning of the nineteenth century.The broadcaster was F. VV. Kaltenbach, -who spoke glowingly of the part which the Germans played in the settlement of the Ohio valley; how their fortitude and prowess as Indian fighters were responsible for the development of Ohio. Among the geographical points mentioned, in addition to Zanesville and Steubenville, were Marietta, Portsmouth, Lancaster, Chilli-eothe and Cincinnati.Listeners learned, for example, that the first newspaper was in Lancaster, and naturally that it was a German paper. They learned further that Zanesville's founder. Ebenezer Zane, had for some reason corrupted his name from the grand old German name of Zahrt. Consequently, the announcer observed, the city should really be Zahnsville.Of course, old Baron Stoybean had a hand In the naming or Steubenville. The Wetzels and sundry other names familiar in Ohio frontier annals were also mentioned and glorified.One of these Wetzels, as a matter of fact, was quite an Indian fighter, and (from the very nest of modern blitzes) Mr. Kaltenbach gave long and thrilling anecdotes of Indian fighting of another day, with its locale as our own back yard here in southeastern Ohio. Mr, Wetzel was officially credited with 53 Indians, but the German announcer (with a flair for exaggerations like a German war communique) confides that the old Indian hunter actually had 87 to his credit.Herr Goebbels’ stooge was correct of course, in declaring that Germans had an important role in theTurn to fkie Thrr«The proven, paid circulation of The Signal and Tlaes Iks confer is more than double that even claimed by any other publication in the Zanesville field.Ik Signal and Tkes Retard-«r have two generations of readers who enjoy the most and best local pictures andthe world's best wire service.ZANESVILLE SIGNALit UhIM Pressit Infers of low ol News Service★ NEA Photosit Acme TolephotosVOL. LXU, No. 81ZANESVILLE. P.. WEDNESDAY EVENING. AUG. 6, 1941PRICE: TWO CENTSClothes Fly on Picket LineChurchill and Hopkins Together—With Roosevelt?Claim Political Activity on Their Port Is UnlawfulNazi Broadcaster Declares It Should Be Zahnsville-Not Zanesville!
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Zanesville Signal
Zanesville, Ohio, US
Wed, Aug 06, 1941
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OH, USA 03 May 2023
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