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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 21, 1943
Page
3
Washington reports the Shangri La, a carrier used as a seabase, served as the launch ship for a daring air raid on Tokyo. The War Department says the ship could be replicated to mount future strikes from multiple directions into Japan.
Allied headquarters report British Eighth Army captured Enfidaville about 50 miles south of Tunis after heavy fighting and four Axis counterattacks. Montgomery's troops seized Takrouna Heights near Enfidaville as US and UK air forces destroyed 151 enemy planes over three days.
War Department records identify three of the 80 American airmen in the Tokyo raid on April 18 as Ohioans. First Lt. Robert Meder is listed as a prisoner. Lt. William M. Bower and Lt. Richard E. Cole returned to safety, with ties to Lakewood Cleveland and Dayton respectively.
The official tale confirms Maj. Gen. James H. Doolittle led 16 eight engine bombers from the Hornet, launching 800 miles from Japan in rough weather. Most planes failed to reach China. only one reached Russia. Of 80 crew, one killed, two missing, eight prisoners, five interned in Russia, 64 returned through China. The raid defied secrecy and forced a bold pre dawn departure from plan.
National Coffee Association secretary W F Williamson said coffee supplies were higher than since rationing began last October. An association executive added that a ration increase is hoped for, with the current regime ending on April 4.
Washington AP report says House conferees near a broad tax compromise to abate about half of 1942 income taxes with a 20 percent withholding on wages effective July 1. The plan would apply 1941 rates and exemptions to 1942 income with some changes. Senator Bankhead lauded FSA despite criticism while defending its funds and functions in the agricultural program.
Organized labor plans to seek changes to the wage control and job-freeze orders amid criticism from AFL and CIO spokesmen. AFL President William Green calls the measures uncalled for and unnecessary, while CIO leaders say wages and manpower are c capped and prices rise. Green condemns the orders as an assault on workers freedom.
In Columbus two mimeographed books appeared highlighting Gov. John W. Bricker and a biography of him. Jack Flanagan, Bricker’s representative, said the books were published amid talk of a potential 1944 Republican presidential bid.
La Spezia, a major Italian port about 700 miles from Britain, has repeatedly drawn Allied air attacks. Reports said the Italian fleet remained in harbor as bombers struck nearby facilities yesterday.
The Ohio River rose overnight from two feet to about nine feet in the middle-upper stretch while the weather bureau predicts a 52 foot flood stage in Cincinnati by Friday or Saturday. Parkersburg shows 30.8 feet, Point Pleasant 41.2, Portsmouth 46.5, Cincinnati 40.8 as flood crests move toward the Ohio. The Big Sandy River crest reached today and the Big Kanawha was expected by nightfall ahead of Ohio.
AP reports Errol L. Kindice, 39, longtime city council president, succumbed to injuries from an automobile accident.
In Steubenville Ohio Weirton West Virginia district doctors and civil defense groups fight a smallpox outbreak. Health officials report a second wave as cases spread from initial misdiagnosed chickenpox, with 5000 vaccine points sent to the area.
K C Adams of the United Mine Workers Journal says UMW leaders have received many messages from local leaders and rank and file declaring bituminous miners will not work May 1 without a contract and opposing another contract extension. Wage talks have stretched past a 30 day extension that expired March 31. Southern and northern Appalachian bituminous operators remain deadlocked with the UMW on terms of a new contract.
A Columbus sub-committee of the House judiciary committee drastically revised the labor union regulation bill. The panel dropped plans for a state board to regulate unions and their representatives and discarded provisions banning sitdown strikes mass picketing and the four fifths vote for an all union shop.
President Roosevelt and President Avila Camacho outlined a postwar unity program patterned on Pan American solidarity, rejecting any negotiated peace. They stressed unconditional surrender of the Axis, joint arms solidarity, and the good neighbor policy as bases for a world after the war. The leaders highlighted Mexico as a bridge between Latin and Saxon cultures.
Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden told the House of Commons that the United Nations remain determined on the unconditional surrender of the Axis and its satellites. He added there was no official information Spain planned to use its good offices to restore world peace.
The executive committee of the Ohio State Grange adopted a resolution protesting Congress action to remove supervision of credit loans to low income families from the Farm Security Administration and transfer it to other federal agencies in Columbus.
In Ohio the female labor bill gains Senate approval 19 to 13 and goes to the House. The measure, effective during the war emergency or until April 1, 1945, sets a 50 hour work week for women and minors, lowers minor age limits, and legalizes women in several restricted occupations such as taxi driver and freight elevator operator.
Pearl Harbor reports the submarine Wahoo sank eight ships totaling 37 000 tons in one week for a total of 13 ships in two patrols. Lieut Commander Dudley W Morton calls the action a straightforward sinking record while also damaging a ninth vessel and wrecking two small boats.
The Civil Aeronautics Administration announced a shift of pre combat and non combat pilot training to about 400 centers cutting roughly 250 flight schools from the program. William A M Burden said action is hoped soon to assure pay and subsistence for about 13 000 Army reservists whose training was extended beyond expectations.
Washington reports relief in rationing with blue coupon values cutting for frozen fruits vegetables and canned soups to prevent spoilage. Dry dehydrated soups see major point reductions while dry peas become ration free. Changes in meat points may occur end of month with possible beef and luncheon ham reductions. New War Ration Book No 3 distribution by mail begins May 20 to June 5.
Churchill told a private 1942 audience that Britain faced invasion with under 50 tanks and a few hundred field guns, detailing dire defenses after Dunkirk. Allied air forces continued to down enemy planes while Hurricanes nicknamed Can Openers harassed Rommel’s armored units.
Allied quarters warned that quick conquest of the Tunis Bizerte bridgehead is unlikely as Rommel still guards high ridges in the Tunis Bizerte zone. RAF night raids hit Berlin Stettin Rostock and Baltic ports, with Mosquito strikes on Hitler’s birthday. Heavy daylight offensives continued across the English Channel and in France Holland Belgium and Northwestern Germany.
Treasury officials said communities have pushed toward the 13 billion second war loan goal as sales passed 10 billion and signs point to meeting the target early. Morgenthau voiced disappointment at bond sales to individuals in the last two weeks.
In London Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden told Parliament that British and Canadian war prisoners held by Germany last October remain in fetters. He noted new information that the method of applying restraints is less rigorous than before and said Britain will press Germany to abandon the practice.
The Ohio House rejected a measure requiring one spouse applicant to have lived 30 days in the county issuing a marriage license. The vote blocks the residency prerequisite for license applications.
Princess Elizabeth heiress presumptive to the British crown marks her seventeenth birthday in London with royal observances and family gatherings.
Allied headquarters in Australia warned that Japan’s air and ground power in the South west Pacific is growing rapidly and poses a more menacing threat on the Australian front. The warning follows tempered reports of MacArthur’s bomber successes including the sinking of a 6,000 ton ship at Wewak New Guinea yesterday, likely fuel laden.
Major General Claire L. Chennault said Japan was concentrating troops in French Indochina Malaya and Thailand for a renewed offensive in the Southwest Pacific or Burma. The Seventh U S Army Air Force commander noted reports of units moving from Manchuria and Northern China.
Vatican radio in a French language broadcast criticized those who seek solutions through death and violence. The church said those who preach violence will be the first victims of their creed. In Toledo, Lucas County Judge Lee N. Marlin, 45, collapsed and died at home yesterday.
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