Bateman Named Sheriff as Bayless Widow Declines Deputy Post
Athens County Commissioners choose George Bateman to succeed the late Charles W Bayless as sheriff of Athens County. Bateman, a Republican, defeated Bayless in 1940. Mrs Gladys Bayless refused a deputy offer of $125 monthly. Frank Joyce will be a deputy, replacing B C Day. The vote and statement were delivered in a tense, formal session.
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George Bateman
Nelsonville
Athens County
Charles W. Bayless
Bateman
Bayless
Gladys Bayless
Commissioners’ Office
Stratton
Leonard Prater
State of
Ohio
Athens County Board of Commissioners
Sheriff's Department
Board of Commissioners
Board of County Commissioners
American Legion Records Record Membership Peak
INDIANAPOLIS Donald G Glascoff assistant national adjutant reports the American Legion now has 1 005 167 members. The organization formed after the last war says its strength is at its greatest this early in the year amid another conflict.
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Indianapolis
American Legion
Donald G. Glascoff
New Sheriff Bateman Named for Athens County
George Bateman, 48, born in Nelsonville, becomes Athens County sheriff after resigning as Nelsonville police chief. He previously served as patrolman and police chief, and as safety superintendent for local coal firms. Married with seven children, his sons Rosser and Richard are in the military. Bateman is a Mason and member of several fraternal orders.
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George Bateman
New Athens County
Nelsonville
Bateman
L. J. Eberle
Police Rhief
Charles W. Bayless
C. G. Dew
Drydock
Carbondale
Rendville
Rosser
Westover Field
Mass
Richard
Shepard Field
Texas
Lois Ferrell
Montgomery
W. Va
George, Jr
June
Alma
Tommy
The
Elks, Eagles, Knights
F of Pythias
Grange
Methodist Church
Standard Oil Head Defends German Deal
W S Farish president of Standard Oil New Jersey testified before a Senate defense committee. He defended agreements with the German Farbenindustrie saying they did not aid Nazi efforts and that Standard shared patents with the U S government while leading U S efforts to develop synthetic rubber.
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Washington
The_ Senate defense investigating committee
W. S. Farish
Standard Oil Company
New Jersey
Standard
United States
German Dye Trust
Farish
Thurman Arnold
L G. Farbenindustrie
Germany
Standard Oil
Hold Two Suspects in Woman's Kidnaping
An Illinois matron, Mary Jacobson, 33, of Calumet City, Ill, faced two suspects in a kidnapping after being grabbed as she entered her car in Hammond, Indiana. She was left bound and gagged on a hillside near Cincinnati and spent the night at Bethesda Hospital with exposure symptoms.
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Cincinnati
Hamilton, O
Hammond
Ind
Mary Jacobson
Calumet City
Ill
Bethesda Hospital
Weather data for Cleveland amid war effort
The Office for Emergency Management states this is no April Fool. Essential war work manufacturers may obtain certain weather information to support their operations.
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Cleveland
Office For Emergency Management
Free French Forces Put Under MacArthur in Pacific
Gen Charles de Gaulle places Free French units in the Pacific under General Douglas MacArthur's supreme command, according to Free French officials announced today.
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London
Charles de Gaulle
Pacific
Douglas MacArthur
India Minority Group Rejects Postwar Dominion Offer
The Sikh All-Parties Committee rejected Britain's postwar dominion status proposal. In Burma, hard-fighting Chinese defenders escaped a Japanese trap at Toungoo and fell back to the north after the fiercest battle of the campaign. Toungoo lies 155 air line miles north of Rangoon, marking the Allied line’s eastern anchor in Central Burma.
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New Delhi
India
Sikh All-Parties Committee
Britain
Burma
Toungoo
Rangoon
Letters Reach Boys Down Under News In Wartime
Dispatches describe mail reaching American troops in Australia and the Philippines reporting frontline battles. Japanese forces attack Bataan and lay claim to a hospital bombing was unintentional. Burma and New Guinea actions show heavy fighting and Allied aerial gains. Indian political moves signal Dominion status debate and Congress activity in New Delhi.
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Philippines
War Department
Jonathan M. Wainright
Bataan
Imperial High Command
Toungoo
Sittang River
Young Calls For Loud Send-Off For Army Inductees
Washington congressman Stephen Young of Cleveland proposes replacing hush hush induction methods with a public roaring send off. He envisions draftees marching proudly down Main Street with brass bands as they join the armed forces.
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Washington
Sephen Young
Cleveland
Body of Ohio flier found in Texas wreckage
The body of Lieut. Robert B. Brown of Gambier Ohio, missing after a routine Duncan Fili flight, was recovered from the wreckage of an army plane about 25 miles northwest of San Antonio Texas. He was the son of Kenyon College's secretary and was to marry Haralson of Tulsa Oklahoma.
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San Antonio
Tex
Robert B. Brown
Gambier
Duncan Fili
Here
Kenyon College
Eestor Itunce Haralson
Tulsa
Okla
Unday
Baby Born Amid Torpedo Hit On Merchant Ship
An Axis torpedo struck an Atlantic coast merchantman Sunday morning. A cabin witness reported the infant was born as the explosion occurred. Rear Admiral Adolphus Andrews ordered full rescue effort. Mother and baby were picked up and “doing as well as can be expected.”
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New York
Atlantic
Adolphus Andrews
Eastern Sea Frontier
MacArthur Receives Labor Backing Amid War Support
Messages from AFL President William Green and CIO leader James Carey pledged strong labor support for General Douglas MacArthur United Nations Supreme Commander in the Southwest Pacific. MacArthur thanked labor for its patriotism saying labor never fails the army or the nation.
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United States Army
Australia
Douglas MacArthur
United Nations
Southwest Pacific
William Green
American Federation of Labor
James Carey
Congress of Industrial Organizations
MacArthur
Civil Air Patrol to wear Army Air Corps style uniforms
Central Ohio Civil Air Patrol members will wear trousers shirts shoulder straps and overseas caps similar to Army Air Corps attire Group Commander S O Nollenberger announced today in Columbus.
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Columbus
Central Ohio
Civil Air Patrol
Army Air Corps
S. O. Nollenberger
Feb 16 registrants to be classified for May or June draft
Selective Service said February 16 registrants will be immediately classified and likely inducted in May or June. Local boards were told to start classification now to meet the June call and possibly the May call. The Feb 16 group, labeled the Second Age Group, follows the Oct 16 1940 and July 1 1941 First Age Group.
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Washington
Selective Service Headquarters
10000 Tons of Scrap Seized in Farm Confiscation
Dayton reports the seizure of more than 10000 tons of scrap metal at a farm near Dayton after U S Marshal C H Sisson served requisition papers on Owen Eby. Regional EM official Sam Slotky said salvage begins immediately and Frigidaire had previously dumped scrap there under a long term contract.
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Dayton
Sam Slotky
Office of Emergency Management
Here
U. S
C. H. Sisson
Columbus
Owen Eby
Slotky
Washington
Wheat Supply Large Despite Short Crops
Washington reports that despite two consecutive short war crops the world could have a record wheat supply in 1942. The surplus rests in the four leading exporters United States, Canada, Australia and Argentina, whose stocks are the largest on record.
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Washington
Agriculture Enment
United States
Canada
Australia
Argentina
War outlook in India tests Britain's dominion offer
Pessimism in New Delhi over Britain's dominion status plan sparks fear India may fail to seize the independence opportunity. The piece questions Gandhi's sagacity as Jap success in Burma looms, warns against passive resistance, and notes India's lack of military readiness amid wartime pressure.
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New Delhi
Britain
India
Hindustan
Gandhi
England
Burma
All India Congress
Pacific War Council Formed To Plan Strategy For Victory
President Roosevelt announced the Pacific War Council to devise UN strategy against Japan. The seven members summoned to the White House include Viscount Halifax, Dr Herbert Evatt, Walter Nash, T V Soong, Alexander Loudon, Hume Wrong, and others representing Allied nations.
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Washington
Pacific War Council
United Nations
Japan
Roosevelt
White House
Viscount Halifax
Herbert V. Evatt
Walter Nash
New Zealand
United States
T. V. Soong
Alexander Loudon
Netherlands
Hume Wrong
Canada
Leighton McCarthy
Water From Condemned Wells Causes Illness
Engineer G A Hall of the State Health Department reported that St Marys Ohio with about 400 people affected this week was drawing unchlorinated water from two condemned wells into its distribution system. He also found cross connections between a paper box company canal water system and the city water plant system.
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Columbus
G. A. Hall
State Health Department
St. Marys
Hall
R. H. Markwith
Late Buyers Swamp Auto Tag Deputies
In Columbus police arrested drivers using 1941 license plates as late comers crowded deputy registrars. New small gear date plates will be attached to licenses next year and during the war to conserve steel.
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Columbus
Middletown Mills Break Month Production Record
Middletown division of the American Rolling Mill Company finished a month with record steel output. Whistles blew as workers marked the achievement.
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MILLS
Middletown
American Rolling Mill Company
Opening of Hitler Spring Drive Promises Major Eastern Front Clash
Reports say Adolf Hitler moved 1.5 million troops into the eastern front as 12 million Germans and Russians brace for a climactic spring offensive. British and Soviet dispatches note heavy troop movements, renewed Axis attacks near Orel and Kharkov, Sevastopol defenses, and plans for southern drives toward the Caucasus.
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Hitler
Adolf Hitler
Fuehrer
Stockholm
London
Orel
Moscow
Marshal Timoshenko
Taganrog
Caucasus
Kharkov
Red Army
Russia
Pittsburgh
Ukraine
Sevastopol
Crimea
Tass
Black Sea
Germany
Soviet Information Bureau
Barents Sea
Persia
Iran
Indian Ocean
Warsaw
Karelian
Californians Charged With Sedition in Postwar Case
Isolationists Robert C. Noble and Ellis O. Jones were rearrested on federal sedition charges after Pearl Harbor. The state filed criminal libel charges against Noble, Jones and seven others for a pamphlet by Friends of Progress accusing Gen. Douglas MacArthur. Noble opposed MacArthur and Roosevelt, praising Hitler and Japan in various appearances.
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Los Angeles
Robert C. Noble
MacArthur
Ellis O. Jones
Roosevelt
Noble
Jones
Douglas MacArthur
Friends of Progress Isolationist Organization
Pearl Harbor
U. S
Francis Biddle
Friends of Progress
State Assembly
Hitler
Europe
Orient
Speed in Home Defense Urged by Landis at rally
James M. Landis, director of the Office of Civilian Defense, told 10 000 at Public Hall that Cleveland Akron Lorain and Toledo are war fronts. urged faster home defense prep and training for wardens auxiliary firemen policemen and nurses aides insisting this is not someone else s war but yours and time is of the essence.
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Cleveland
Akron
Lorain
Toledo
Bataan
Port Moresby
Port Darwin
James M. Landis
Office of Civilian Defense
Landis
Public Hall
Bricker appoints 27 to State Highway Patrol ranks
Gov. John W. Bricker issued commissions to 27 new state highway patrolmen after a 10 week training course. The ceremony at the state fair grounds increased the force to 298 officers, two below the authorized maximum.
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Columbus
John W. Bricker
State Fairgrounds
Censorship Office Warns Maps Exclude Military Depots
The Office of Censorship asked map publishers to omit military depots and war production plants from new Washington maps to avoid exposing sensitive sites.
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Washington
Office of Censorship
Farm Boys to Get Awards at County Fairs
Ohio plans extend prizes from the State Junior Fair to county expositions as breeder groups pledge awards. State director John T. Brown notes $24,000 for junior fair prizes last year and $6,000 from organizations, with counties offering grounds but Brown declining due to inadequate facilities for 36,000 youths.
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Columbus
John T. Brown
Brown
U S Denies Special Aid for Argentina War Split
Washington disclosed a policy shift denying Argentina special economic military and naval aid until Argentina joins the hemisphere front against the Axis. The move follows a broader policy to favor American republics that have gone to war or severed relations with the Axis.
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Washington
United States
Argentina
May Be Candidate Cleveland for Governor Nomination
Friends of John McSweeney say the former congressman-at-large may pursue the Democratic nomination for governor. He has not announced a formal campaign but supporters indicate interest and potential entry details.
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Cleveland
John McSweeney
Trade-in rule forces old tubes to buy toothpaste
Washington imposes government rule requiring customers to trade in an old toothpaste tube or shaving cream container to purchase a new tube. Retailers face enforcement duties. Toymakers are told to stop producing electric trains after July 1 and metal content limits apply to many household gadgets.
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Washington
Sam
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Corey
Standard Oil Head
Associated Press
United States Army Headquarters
D. H. Stephens
Army
Shwedaung
Prome
New Guinea
All-India Congress Party
Young
Ophare
Edward H. O'Hare
M’arthur
Labor
U.S
Mahatma Gandhi
BY Dewitt MacKenzie
Leningrad
State Highway Patrol
Argentine
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