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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 28, 1944
Page
11
Massed Allied invasion vessels gathered in English harbors were bombed by German bombers. Berlin sources via Stockholm claimed invasion could begin within days and reported Allied shipping concentrations along England's western and southeastern coasts.
Ohio lawmakers completed an emergency law to allow an all inclusive war ballot for the November election. The measure extends absentee voting to service members and relatives, with 90 days to mail ballots and no federal short ballot legalization. Both parties supported the bill. Gov Bricker’s signature makes it effective.
General Douglas MacArthur announced the rescue of 100 foreign missionaries from Hollandia in Dutch New Guinea. The group includes 13 Americans, seven Dutch, three Poles, one Australian, one Czechoslovakian, and the rest Germans, with 40 being nuns. They were stationed at mission stations along the north coast of New Guinea.
South Africa Prime Minister Jan Christiaan Smuts arrived in England by air for the first wartime Empire conference. He was met by or preceded by Prime Ministers W L Mackenzie King of Canada and Peter Fraser of New Zealand.
The Archdiocese of Boston and Catholics from around the world paid final honors to Cardinal William O Connell. Business paused as stores closed and City Halloperated on essential business while bells toll in tribute at the 10 a.m. service.
Washington reports civilian goods production will rise after Germany is beaten but officials warn only limited civilian production is possible in the near term as the War Production Board plans the postwar shift.
In Chicago a U S court ordered Montgomery Ward and Company officials to stop hindering government efforts to seize and supervise the plant. Federal troops helped effect the seizure and chief executive Sewell Avery was forcibly removed from his office. The case tests the government power to seize a private business during wartime and could reach the U S Supreme Court.
Four Ohio nurses were among eight American army nurses taken on a sightseeing tour of the Anzio beachhead with the Fifth Army. Lt Nedra L. Smith Logan Lt Grace Benden Akron Lt Virginia Billings New Boston Lt Mary Berkowitz Younge rode through shell blasted countryside in trucks and waved to thousands of astonished GI s amid the wartime spectacle.
William J. Bennett 57 a Dayton aviation authority was found in his room Wednesday night with wrists slit before dying at the hospital authorities said.
Montgomery Ward chief executive Sewell Avery, earning 100000 a year, was forcibly removed from his Chicago office by soldiers. Asked what he would do, Avery replied that he would keep fighting, saying you do not quit when something is wrong, even if carried out feet first.
PORTSMOUTH Va Fifteen civilian workmen died from suffocation and twenty others were injured when a fire broke out in the hold of a naval ship undergoing repairs at the Norfolk Navy Yard. Fire was checked by 6 20 p m and within two and a half hours workers were removed unconscious from smoke. Dead were all from Portsmouth and Norfolk. None of the twenty injured were in serious condition.
An earthquake shock of great intensity was recorded at the Bombay observatory shortly after 9 o clock last night. Officials said the epicenter was about 4 290 miles from Bombay and near New Guinea where General MacArthur s forces are engaging Japanese.
Railroad officials report 16 year old Donald Haynes died instantly yesterday after he hopped a riding train at a yard and fell. The incident occurred in Fostoria with officials confirming the fatal accident.
Allied and enemy actions unfold in New Guinea and India as Mountbatten's forces push toward Kohima and Hollandia. MacArthur reports rapid capture of Hollandia airfields and surrounding strongholds with thousands of Japanese casualties and tens of thousands reportedly trapped. North of Kohima, tanks and planes strike at Japanese positions as Allied air power expands to Wewak and Carolines. In China, Loyang defenses falter against Japanese drive while U.S. strategic reshaping of war politics continues with state resolutions and legislative moves in Ohio.
New York reports that Thomas E. Dewey questioned whether foreign policy would follow constitutional methods. He urged strong ties among the United States Britain Russia and China to secure peace and postwar stability. He outlined aims for total victory and a world structure of peace backed by force.
A Senate committee urged abandoning federal wage controls for workers earning up to 150 dollars a month for singles and 200 dollars for family heads. The report based on two months of hearings says 20 million people in white collar and low income groups live between subsistence and privation.
Weatherman George W Mind ling reports a heavy general frost expected tonight across Ohio after a light frost last night. The Weather Bureau has telegraphed warnings for gardeners to protect crops and gardens as temperatures fall two to four degrees below last night 27 at Cambridge.
U S Maritime Service offices in Cleveland and Cincinnati will recruit on Sundays starting April 30 to reach men in Ohio Michigan and Kentucky. Lieut D C Phillips says the seven day recruiting plan lets workers in outlying districts apply without taking time off. The drive aims to enroll 3 000 men aged 26 to 50 and discharged veterans for service aboard merchant cargo ships.
Allied air forces continue a wide attack across Europe with major bombing of Friedrichshafen and northern railway targets. In 14 days of nonstop that have reshaped the invasion, over 6,000 Allied planes dropped tens of thousands of tons of bombs, while German losses mount and weather limits Mediterranean raids.
The Navy told the House Postwar Military Policy Committee that a single department of war should be studied thoroughly before any consolidation. Undersecretary James Forrestal urged objective analysis rather than assuming one solution. Earlier, War Secretary Stimson backed a postwar unified department but urged delaying actual consolidation until after the war.
Senate debate centers on amendments to the Pace bill authorizing Rural Electrification and Farm Credit administrations. War Food Administration seeks 50 million dollars for hot lunch programs, 28.5 million for appropriation, and 97.5 million for FSA lending authority amid protests and organized opposition.
In Columbus last night Governor John W. Bricker answered seven of nine questions about national and international issues that Wendell L. Willkie declined. The Republican presidential hopeful spoke in a Fulton Lewis Jr. radio interview and addressed topics from world government to trade and currency.
Kansas City says the future leaders of the Methodist Church will come from its 1300 chaplains who know foxhole duty under fire. D Stewart Patterson, secretary of the commission on chaplains, says these men earn respect from facing battle dangers and aiding wounded soldiers. Seven Methodist chaplains have been killed, he added.
American officials told Britain they do not plan to use superior long range air power to squeeze Britain from postwar commercial aviation. Britain acknowledged US investments in military bases and pledged empire wide airbase access for commercial planes of all nations.
Precious chinchilla fur once scarce worldwide will return to the market next Tuesday after 21 years of American farming research. Dr. M. R. Howard, chair of the National Chinchilla Breeders' Association, announced the auction of the first 3,000 American-bred pelts in New York.
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