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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 1943
Page
3
Flying Fortresses raided Kavieng and New Ireland in three moonlit assaults destroying or dispersing a Japanese naval concentration near New Guinea. The operation, reported by Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s headquarters, involved 13 warships and merchantmen damaged or sunk, as Allied air power pounds the region.
Allied fleets including hundreds of American Flying Fortresses bombed Kiel Naples and Paris targets. Naples port suffered heavy damage with 21 ships hit and casualties reported. Paris Renault factory raid marked the largest American bombing of the war from Britain. Berlin reported thousands killed or injured at Naples, while Essen and Kiel endured major raids.
Ohio Selective Service will reduce by 14.2 percent the number of men to be drafted for the armed services during the March 29 to April 30 induction period. Lieut. Col. Carl G. Wahl said the War Department did not state the reason for the cut. seventy seven boards will not provide men from April 26 to 30. The report also notes Allied and Japanese actions in the Pacific theater and air raids across multiple locations.
The Office of Price Administration gave up on rules about maids and ration points. A brief press release said it is unfair to force the maid to hand over all coupons or to eat at the employer’s home without contributing. OPA urged mutual agreement between households and workers.
Full production on Army and Navy orders resumed at the E. F. Hauserman Co as 407 CIO United Furniture Workers Union members ended a sitdown strike. They returned to work after agreeing to a two week trial incentive bonus plan devised by the conciliation service following a long standing bonus dispute.
Washington reports two Allied and neutral merchant ships sunk by Axis submarines in the Western Atlantic. The tally, from AP, rises to 641 merchant losses since Pearl Harbor.
The Office of Price Administration set specific cents per pound ceilings for beef veal lamb and mutton effective April 15 with many prices lower than recent retail rates. Pork prices already took effect April 1. Independent stores may charge 1 to 3 cents more than chains, and regional variations apply.
Soviet reports say German forces with tanks and air power battered defenses northeast and southeast of Kharkov but were repulsed. Moscow says 200 more Germans died, bringing toll to about 1,000 in the Izyum region. Red Army claims about one third of attackers knocked out in recent efforts.
Marshal Philippe Petain denounced the American air raid on the Renault Motor Works near Paris as "new Anglo American aggression." French sources said the protest signaled Petain's total abandonment of any pretense of understanding with Washington and marked a shift from the fiction he had fostered.
Rep. Thomas A. Jenkins of Ironton chairs a newly appointed Republican committee to study the nation’s food production rationing and distribution problems. House minority leader Rep. Joseph Martin of Massachusetts said the group will seek to determine how to assure an adequate food supply.
A rock fell at Falls State park in Madison Indiana killing Howard V. Dotler age 46 from Sandusky Ohio as he walked beneath a stone ledge. Authorities investigated the incident and ruled it an accidental death at the scene.
A foreign source says Washington talks in British American meetings mapped General De Gaulle's part in French resistance. His projected North Africa trip and influence in metropolitan France are under consideration for invasion planning and political stability.
Secretary of State Hull told Congress the United States must show sincerity of purpose by extending the administration's authority to write reciprocal trade agreements. He said the act is vital for prosecuting the war and shaping the peace as a 1944 funding bill faces Ways and Means and Appropriations scrutiny.
Workers at Timken Roller Bearing Co. Gambrinus plant continued a second walkout in two weeks hampering war production. Company and union spokesmen blamed the latest stoppage on the dismissal of a unionist tied to the first walkout sparked by protests over promoting 27 Black workers to machine jobs.
Four national farm organizations urged overriding the Bankhead Bill veto, saying agriculture is used to appease wage demands and inflation. Senate War Investigating Committee planned an inquiry into Army hoarding of food and supplies, and action on labor legislation and the Hobbs anti racketeering bill was set for the week amid possible amendments if strikes threaten the war effort.
Berlin Radio reported that Edouard Daladier Elon Blum and General Maurice Gamelin were moved to German prisons to block a counter government under Allied auspices. Paul Reynaud Georges Mandel were said moved earlier with over a million French prisoners and hostages amid fears of an Allied invasion.
Archbishop Francis J. Spellman of New York left London for a visit with the archbishop of Scotland. In a broadcast he said he would travel to Africa, the Middle East, India and China after Scotland and hoped to celebrate Holy Mass from Jerusalem on Easter Sunday.
Representatives of labor management production committees from Ohio steel plants offered a four point program to curb absenteeism. It calls for determining the scope of absence, learning reasons from workers, presenting and enforcing a plan to minimize absences, and fostering cooperation to lessen unavoidable absences.
A neighbor saved three children from a house blaze but 10 month old Faith Ward died in the fire at Mrs. Julia Ward's home. Authorities investigated the cause and listed the victims and survivors.
Private First Class Dale E. Bordner of Chillicothe and two fellow airmen were rescued after ten months living in the jungles of Japanese occupied New Britain. The trio, aged 23, had been aboard a B 26 bomber that crashed during a raid on Rabaul. They endured starvation sickness and threat from Japanese forces, eating grubs caterpillars toads lizards and grasshoppers while natives hunted rats for food. Bordner earned his wings after return and his family called him a scrapper.
The Air Ministry said the Kiel strike was carried out in great strength, matched by a 133 Flying Fortress daylight raid on Renault Works near Paris with massive airpower. Four Fortresses failed to return and Allied losses included 36 enemy planes. Coastal bombers sunk three Axis ships off Norway. Fortresses also over Paris for the first time.
The Paris radio claimed 200 dead and over 500 injured in a civilian raid described as terror. Allied officials warned France to avoid military targets as further raids on Axis factories were expected. In Tunisia the Second Army Corps repulsed Axis counterattacks and pressed toward El Guetar and Maknassy while the British and American forces advanced toward Cap Bon and Bizerte area positions.
In Tacoma Washington the neon type Breton, a fast mass of fighting machinery, passes trials and is revealed as an escort carrier of the first rank. The Seattle Tacoma shipbuilding plant has delivered what was described as an escort vessel, but the Breton's status is now clarified as a top tier escort carrier ready for the fleet.
Joseph E. Fuller a 29 year old war worker reported he was robbed of his automobile and 165 dollars after taking his four year old son to shows and drives during his off duty hours. He could not carry the child the two miles home.
Washington ordered men aged 38 to 45 to enter war production or face potential draft after May 1. An administrative cut in April draft quotas was blamed on smoothing monthly inductions, with officials promising later replenishment. State reports suggested reductions up to 20 percent in some areas.
The Ohio House plans a vote tonight on a constitutional amendment to empower the legislature to call a special session with a three-fifths petition, expanding beyond the governor. Senate action aims to approve a House-approved bill to authorize the liquor director to ration whiskey.
New Delhi reports RAF staged widespread air strikes in Japanese occupied Burma targeting airfields supply depots and shipping. One British plane was shot down and several enemy aircraft were damaged during yesterday and last night raids.
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