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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1941
Page
1
Washington reports the Navy raised its recruiting objective to 13 000 men a month for the rest of the year and 15 000 monthly thereafter. Admirals expect newspaper ads to aid the effort. Enlistments rise to 10 300 a month as the fleet nears January 1918 strength.
4 room cottage with water cellar garden electricity near court house Marshfield Road. Rent seven dollars a month. Call 24432. Messenger readers seek similar rentals and the ad runs for one day prompting many calls. Dial 1242 to place an ad on a six day rate.
Lieut. James D. Edwards age 22 of Kirkland Illinois died from injuries after a jeep scout car left a highway and crashed through a fence. The 500 pound vehicle was part of a 2000 vehicle caravan from Fort Custer Michigan to Brooklyn New York. Edwards belonged to the 46th Field Artillery unit.
London reports lease lend shipments to Britain arriving in highly satisfactory quantities. Officials note steady inflow boosts wartime supplies and support for British defense efforts.
In German-occupied France authorities rounded up more than 300 people in Paris and Versailles after Laval’s shooting attempt. Three Communists were executed by special courts, while Pierre Laval and Marcel Dent remained gravely wounded. Paul Colette, the assailant, claimed De Gaulle influence and said he supported the collaborationist effort. Lucien Sampaix received life in prison.
A U S Senate committee urged liberalizing social security to provide a $30 monthly old age pension for all unemployed over 60. The plan would raise combined employer employee payroll taxes to 6 percent by Jan 1 1944 and extend coverage to the self employed farmers and government workers. The proposal totals about 4 billion dollars annually in added costs.
The AFL Electrical Workers Union seeks NLRB certification as bargaining agent for about 800 employees at Ohio Public Service Co ten plants including Alliance Ashland Elyria Lorain Mansfield Massillon Port Clinton Sandusky Vermilion Warren The CIO Utility Workers Organizing Committee calls for a strike at the Warren plant next Wednesday and disputes rival union efforts. A separate rollout notes a Curtiss-Wright Columbus plant bargaining push and a Buckeye Bumper Springfield strike vote for a 10 cent raise for over 500 workers.
Emerson P. Haning aged 71 died Wednesday afternoon at his home Athens Route 1 after several months illness. He was born in Alexander Township and lived in Harrisonville Meigs County before returning to Alexander. Survived by wife Emma two daughters Mrs Raymond Webb and Mrs Walter Saylor one son Charles B Haning grandsons James Saylor Robert and Bruce Haning sister Mrs Maggie Kolberg. Funeral Saturday at 2 p.m. at Alexander Presbyterian Church with Rev Louis Campbell in charge burial in the adjoining cemetery. Friends may call.
Gov. John W. Bricker headlined the Ohio State Fair with a 15 hour schedule of entertainment and speeches. Miss Rose Riggs of Gallipolis was crowned queen of awards and the governor's cup went to the harness race winner. Attendance surged, with 60,433 entering yesterday, beating last year by about 10,000 as the fair entered its fifth day.
Charles A. Lindbergh and Senator Burton K. Wheeler denied use of Municipal Auditorium will instead speak at a sandlot ball park outside Oklahoma City limits. Local protests led to cancellation of the auditorium booking and the America First Committee arranged an outside venue after venue removal.
Admiral Kichisaburo Nomura delivered a personal message from the Japanese Prime Minister to President Roosevelt at the White House after talks with President and Secretary Hull as tensions in the Pacific escalated.
Louis A. Conklin, former postmaster at Forest from 1922 to 1934, died at age 76. He supervised construction at the army's cannonment site at Chillicothe during World War I.
In Hapeville Georgia Justice Neill Leach decided ownership of a Boston bulldog. The dog chose by turns between Mrs. T W Homer and claimant C S Nichols leading the judge to award the pet to Mrs. Hover after neighbors testified.
Ohio's home guard of the air moves toward reality as Earle L. Johnson announces plans to recruit from about 4000 civilian pilots mechanics and radio operators. He expects a national Roosevelt program soon and says the unit will join the Army Air Corps as a civilian branch under the State Home Guard with enlistments for the duration and no age limit. Women will be admitted.
Dumpings of bituminous coal into vessels at Lake Erie docks reached a weekly high for 1941 at 1,789,754 tons for the seven days ended Aug 25, according to the Ore & Coal Exchange. The prior 1941 peak was 1,735,243 tons for the week ended Aug 4, and the all‑time record is 1,851,312 tons for the week ended May 13, 1940.
Augustus Franklin Lindbergh of Birmingham accuses his cousin Charles A. Lindbergh in a Cincinnati network broadcast of failing the true American test by not subordinating will to government in a national emergency. He labels isolationists treasonous while asserting the nation is at war. Burton Wheeler is named as a fellow critic.
Washington lawmakers near final action on a 3.5039 billion excise tax bill with a two man subcommittee proposing a selective sales tax on luxury items. The panel may extend to radio franchises, replacing the House’s radio time sales levy estimated at 12.5 million yearly.
Reports from Istanbul claim Hitler told Turkey he may use Turkish waters in the Black Sea for an attack on Batum while denying other demands. German and Italian forces push toward the Black Sea vs Soviet territory as Iran’s border war nears end with British actions securing Iran’s coast.
The report says Hitler’s forces cut rail supplies to Lenin grad and Sebastopol while Red Army units are crushed east of Salla. Soviet communique notes fierce defense around Leningrad and Odessa with heavy fighting near Kingisepp. German dispatches claim a crossing of the Dnieper to seize Zaporozh e and threaten Donets Basin as RAF hits Mannheim.
The Veterans of Foreign Wars at its 42nd national encampment tabled a resolution to censure groups undermining U.S. foreign policy and unanimously urged the President to dispense with Frances Perkins the Secretary of Labor for shown inability to handle the post.
Frances Perkins, New York secretary of labor, blames the AFL CIO schism for the failure of collective bargaining to reduce strikes. In Fortune she says reunification could occur without hatred, arguing bargaining by mutual responsibility advances orderly dispute settlement. She notes government power to stop strikes is limited and stresses labor’s spokesman role.
Washington announces a table of fair maximum retail prices for gasoline in 40 Atlantic Seaboard cities. Price Administrator Leon Henderson says the rates are nonbinding but set a 4 cent dealer margin and urge motorists to protest higher charges.
Cleveland health officials consider a conference of school and health officials to decide on opening city schools next month after three more infantile paralysis cases raise the yearly total to 128.
Dayton police say AWOL soldier Harold G. Lowry twenty from Tiffin jumped or fell from a freight train at Union Station and is hospitalized at St Elizabeth. Quenton O. Mounts twenty two of Springfield, also from Ft. Knox, is being questioned.
Henry Beard of Detroit, 42, exited his car when the battery died and was struck by another vehicle driven by Bernard Paris, 39, in an early morning crash.
A committee of attorneys asks the Ohio Court of Appeals to dismiss attorney Agnes B. Dickinson's appeal on a common pretrial order of disbarment.
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