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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1943
Page
11
General Eisenhower, newly named to command in Britain, declares the European war will be won in 1944. He notes Italian surrender aided Allied gains and says French forces will be included in plans to invade Europe.
Lt. Gen. A G L McNaughton commander of the Canadian army in Britain for over four years has departed his post due to ill health and will be unable to command the Canadians in the Western Europe invasion.
British home fleet units sink the 26 000 ton German battleship Scharnhorst in a fiery Barents Sea engagement off North Cape as she attacked a convoy to Murmansk. About 1400 aboard, survivors unclear. fate of crew under question.
Reports describe hundreds of Nazi barges repurposed as fog pots to shield German targets from Allied bombing. Portable smudge pots and decoy sites bolster deception, with fake towns and airfields built to lure bombers away.
Atlanta Journal prints plea from C. L. Dunlap a veteran in Mountain Home Tenn Veterans Hospital Annex No 2 who offered a dollar for a want ad to solicit mail The paper reports six telegrams and over sixty letters arriving after the plea and a return of his dollar
President Roosevelt cut short his Hyde Park Christmas week end and returned to the White House to address labor disputes threatening paralysis in steel and rail sectors. He also faced drafting the annual message to Congress and the 1945 budget amid war-time pressures in Washington.
Linwood J Noyes head of the American Newspaper Publishers Association announced 38 daily newspapers were admitted since the April convention, raising total membership to 625 the largest in the association's 57 year history.
New York report shows 339 violent deaths across the Christmas weekend, nine more than last year. Traffic deaths reached 216, up 16 from 1940, amid sleet and rain. Washington DC logged 725 injuries with 615 due to icy streets and three hundred car abandonments as ambulances pooled for calls.
Funeral services for Seaman Second Class Robert Thompson who died last week in a California naval hospital will be held Wednesday at 3 p.m. in the El Holiness Church Chestnut with Rev B A Awe officiating. Burial will be in New Marshfield Cemetery. Friends may call at the family residence on Riverside Drive after 3 p.m. today.
London reports Prime Minister Stanislaw Mikolajczyk of the Polish Government in exile is en route to see President Franklin D. Roosevelt to seek a renewal of ties and cooperation amid wartime Polish Soviet tensions.
Berlin commentators nervously eyed the zero hour for the Allied invasion of Western Europe with talk of a blow this week. Reports from Stockholm say German officials fear Luftwaffe bombardment along the channel coast and mark the Scharnhorst setback as a serious loss. No official Berlin comment on Eisenhower or Montgomery’s invasion roles has been issued.
Advanced Allied Headquarters reports two U S Marine units stormed ashore at Cape Gloucester on New Britain to establish a second invasion front against Japan in the Southwest Pacific.
Premier Hideki Tojo warned the Japanese Diet that the Allied counteroffensive is serious and fierce fighting rages on multiple fronts. Meanwhile MacArthur announced successful beachheads at Cape Gloucester and Arawe on New Britain with minimal U.S. casualties and heavy Allied bombardment.
Coroner John W. Thornburg reported the deaths of Maxine White, 36, and Pfe Ellsworth F. Hankinson, 35, in Miss White's apartment asphyxiation from two gas jets used for heating. He said both deaths were probably accidental. Hankinson is the son of Elza Hankinson of Lancaster, Ohio.
A sleet and rainstorm disrupted travel from New England to Virginia causing bus and auto traffic to halt in Pennsylvania New York and New Jersey. Drivers were warned to stay off roads except emergencies as railways saw crowded service and over 500 servicemen were stranded in Wilkes-Barre and Scranton due to iced mountain highways.
Marines and Navy medical staff in a swampy Bougainville jungle operated from a three foot deep dug out. In seven days 115 wounded arrived at the hospital and only two died, highlighting an enviable treatment record amid harsh conditions.
Akron US. Dr. R P Dinsmore vice president at Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co says the national rubber supply remains acute. He notes the shift from crude to synthetic rubber has improved after 1943, but urges accelerating conversion of all rubber articles to synthetic under adverse conditions.
New York report says a possible sneak air attack on the holiday prompted military and civilian defense units to stay on alert Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. The Eastern Defense Command said authorities could not disclose the report’s origin and that the alert was cancelled at 9:05 p m Saturday after protective measures were taken.
Five firefighters were overcome by smoke while battling a three alarm basement fire at the Leader building in Cleveland. The incident prompted ambulance attention and a full rescue response from local fire crews.
Production at American Shipbuilding Co. in Cleveland resumed as AFL craft unions ended a 12 day stoppage involving over 1000 workers. About 973 on first shift returned to work as 11 metal trades unions signaled to end the strike sparked by the discharge of a union steward.
Brig. Gen. Curtis LeMay disclosed that UV S Army Eighth Air Force daylight raid on an Eastern German Nazi plant knocked out the main factory but spared nearby prisoner housing, allowing inmates to escape with almost no damage.
About 120000 steel workers were idle as nationwide stoppages hit 214 plants across Ohio Pennsylvania West Virginia Indiana Michigan and New York. U S Steel saw absenteeism 6 to 8 percent above normal as unions call for retroactive pay and wage deals stalled. Pickets appeared in Pittsburgh Detroit and Columbus with key plants in Youngstown Canton Massillon and Wheeling sidelined.
Washington observers say prospective witnesses on a resolution probing irregularities at the 1940 Republican convention were notified by Kilgore to document charges if they seek public hearing before the Senate elections subcommittee. Senator Langer will be called early in January to outline the resolution based on claims by C Nelson Sparks that Willkie supporters attempted to buy votes.
Secretary Ickes said the Philippines will need sympathetic aid and an economic rehabilitation program after the war. He expects independence in 1946 if Japan is defeated, with a General Rehabilitation Commission guiding recovery. Guerrilla activity and loyalty to the U.S. continue in the islands.
Ohio reported at least 19 deaths in Christmas weekend incidents. Fifteen occurred on highways or streets. Fires killed Helen Tralin, 39, and Richard Tackett, 3, while Emil Jr and Glenn Tralin witnessed their mother’s death. Owen Jane, 66, died from exposure in Buchtel. Schiller Ray Thomas, 43, died in a Clark County card game dispute.
Naples endures a typhus outbreak with the city closed to Fifth Army troops except for stationed units. About 250 civilians are ill, a tenfold rise since October, with mortality around 25 percent of cases. No soldiers have contracted the disease, says the Fifth Army chief surgeon.
Two Ohio men listed as missing after two Navy planes collided at sea off Miami Florida. Glenn Vesey Jr. of Leavittsburg Ohio and William Thomas Parry of Ohio were aboard the planes and are among the missing Navy personnel.
Spokane report states Major Stanley Hume, Army transport pilot, will marry Marilyn Meseke of Marion early next month. Meseke, famous as Miss America, is the fiancé. The notice appeared in a holiday announcement from Spokane.
A Cleveland woman, Mrs. Adelaide Pekar, receives Christmas flowers from her husband Pfc. James Pekar who was killed in the Sicilian campaign last July 25. The florist says Pekar ordered flowers for his wife and mother last summer and paid from an American embarkation point.
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