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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1944
Page
11
In the Philippines five day fighting around Shoestring Ridge leaves about 1000 Japanese dead as American bazookas disrupt a tank assault at a road block in the Ormoc corridor. General MacArthur reports warplanes and PT boats patrol Philippine waters from Manila to the south.
Admiral Chester W. Nimitz told a National Association of Manufacturers convention that the Pacific war will be long and difficult and that American factories must supply a long list of needs. Leyte front dispatches report intensified Japanese attacks and fierce fighting on Shooters Ridge near Ormoc, with scarce supplies forcing near hand-to-hand combat and soldiers borrowing rifles from the fallen. Allied air activity and ground advances continue as Australian troops prepare for Western Pacific duties and Burma operations shift toward Central Burma amid reports from Tokyo and Chungking on recent moves and communications.
Moscow AP dispatches report Russian armored columns moving within 40 miles of Austria, penetrating the final defense zone guarding the Southwestern Reich frontier. Tolbukhin's forces push from Lake Balaton toward Budapest and Zagreb, with rapid advances near Nagykanitsa and the Draga River as Croatian Partisans reportedly switch sides.
Allied forces crossed the Lamone River southwest of Faenza and established a firm bridgehead. Eighth Army units moved to clear isolated German groups in Ravenna with Italian patriots aid. Ravenna had been captured Monday and the front advanced westward driving German elements back behind the Lamone. San Michele and Piangipane, near Ravenna, were seized.
Washington report notes 15 Ohio congressmen voted yes on a House measure to freeze the social security tax at one percent with three opposed. Republicans Bender Bolton Brehm Carson Clevenger Hess Jenkins Jones Lewis McGawen Ramey Rowe Smith Vorys Weicher favored the bill. State Liquor Director Fisher announced no change in liquor rationing for the next period in Columbus.
Patricia Herron a 28 year old mother of two expecting a third pleaded guilty to perjury at the second degree murder trial of her husband Harry 23 and was placed on one year probation. He was sentenced to one to twenty years in Ohio Reformatory at Mansfield after a three judge court convicted him of manslaughter in the fatal beating of his 18 month old niece Ardella Mae Brobst.
Lt General Brehon Somervell told the National Association of Manufacturers that conquering Japan will cost about 71 billion dollars yearly after Germany’s defeat. He warned the Pacific war will be the largest in history and urged a production upswing to supply critical programs as secret weapons are readied for large scale use in the Pacific.
Seven year-old Judy Ann Koch who lost her sight saving a dog from an oncoming auto and nearly died, began to regain vision today. Physicians found no medical reason, while her mother credited prayers and good thoughts from people nationwide.
Sidney Hillman announced in London that the CIO Political Action Committee would be kept alive and expanded as a force for postwar international cooperation. He argued labor should influence policy but oppose isolationism and cartels and that international cooperation should come through governments, not big business.
In Atlanta two army trucks and troops surrounded the segregation unit where 25 long term convicts hold four prison officials as hostages. Officials turned off heat light and water to force surrender while authorities investigate objections to housing German saboteurs and spies. In San Diego, 2500 Pacific veterans return for leave including 150 Saint Lo crew members.
British Sherman tanks and paratroopers stormed leftist EAM headquarters in central Athens as ELAS fighters fired on troops. One British soldier died, several were wounded, and sniping persisted citywide while British and American officers weighed relief deliveries amid political moves by Sophoulis and Papandreou.
U S Third Army infantry crossed the Saar and created new bridgeheads as Western Europe war enters its seventh month with heavy Allied and German casualties. Front reports add advances near Saarlautern Saarbecken and Saarbrucken while RAF and US air forces bomb German industrial targets and rail yards.
The House approved a bill to block the Social Security tax rise, voting 263 to 72. It would set the tax at 1 percent for employers and 1 percent for employees, delaying the planned 2 percent levy slated for January 1. President Roosevelt’s veto is anticipated, with override support in the House. The measure faces a Senate path and political debate over fund reserves and benefit projections.
SPRINGFIELD. Jerome A Nevius 33 Clark County prosecutor joined Sheriff Niles E Young and three other men indicted on bribery counts by a grand jury probing local gambling. Nevius denied the accusations. The jurors charged Nevius with accepting large sums of money and two cars from Dayton men Joseph Parisi and Ralph Schear who also faced bribery counts.
London reports Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden defended Britain's right to shape governments in liberated countries in opposition to the U S hands off policy in Italy He backed vetoing Carlo Sforza as Italian foreign minister while Stettinius suggested non interference broader aims Triggered debate in the House with calls to withdraw gracefully amid perceived postwar Europe shift.
Washington The office of Price Administration Intervenes in a Federal Power Commission hearing on Columbia Gas and Electric subsidiaries rate proposals. OPA utilities counsel Harry R B Bonth says the agency will oppose rate hikes and seek lower reasonable rates if evidence justifies cuts. Coroner Lynd cites stove fumes in death of Lewis Langdon 57 and Bertha Langdon 42 found in a rooming house Chesapake.
President Roosevelt told Congress that liberated Europeans could supply 90 percent of their basic needs this winter. His UNRRA report notes in Europe 100,000,000 people freed after Nazi persecution and brutalities, with acute food shortages and high child malnutrition. UNRRA teams are in liberated zones and briefing for the Pacific. aims include vast procurement in multiple countries and leveraging U.S. stockpiles and lend-lease resources.
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