19 Feb 1943
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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 19, 1943
Page
1
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Washington AP reports the New Dealers supertax drive halted by steadfast congressional opposition, prompting White House calls to reassess wartime food production base strategy as talks with Congress continue.
President Roosevelt said the Army would total 7,500,000 men exclusive of officers by December 31, with total armed forces including other services reaching about 10,800,000. He cited military necessity and noted farm labor shortages could be eased by high school age workers.
FBI Director J Edgar Hoover reported a 55.7 percent rise in arrests of girls under 21 last year compared with 1941. He blamed parental guidance failures, boom conditions, and easy money in youth hands for the rise in juvenile delinquency.
Police identify three victims in Columbus collision when a car struck an overhead railroad bridge at Fifth and Noone Avenues. Helena Everett 26 Ralph L Pope 24 Wanda 23 all of 203 South Dakota Avenue died. Earold O Everett survived as the driver and husband of Helena.
Allied spokesmen said Catalina bombers attacked Kahili Airfield at Buin for two hours destroying enemy aircraft and causing fires. Liberators hit Madang dispersal areas while Beaufighters destroyed or damaged a 300 ton schooner and a 30 foot launch. Boston bombers struck four Japanese villages near Lae. All Allied planes returned safely.
In Bern the broadcasted address by Paul Goebbels framed Nazi pleas for world sympathy while highlighting threats from Soviet Russia. Foreign observers view the message as an effort to weaken Anglo-Saxon resolve and sustain morale amid stiff eastern fronts.
Washington announces a plan to recruit a limited number of volunteers for preinduction special branches in both services. Initial focus covers Army premeteorological meteorological pilot bombardier and navigator training with applications after March 1. later plans include aviation cadets naval officer candidates Army technicians and Navy construction battalion technicians with set quotas and induction certification.
In London labor factions showed a willingness to heal the breach in Churchill's wartime coalition. Laborites backed Beveridge cradle-to-grave security plan with 119 votes, while the cabinet held, signaling the issue would not fracture unity during the war effort.
Prime Minister Churchill is bedbound with acute catarrh of the upper respiratory passages, a No 10 statement said today.
The regional Office of Price Administration orders higher producer payments effective today in Ohio Kentucky West Virginia Indiana and Michigan while consumer prices stay unchanged. Fluid milk distributors may raise producer payments before the freeze by up to 23 cents per hundredweight per half seat increase allowed in the retail quart price. Distributors with no retail sales may match payments to the closest competitor. The order excludes areas under Agricultural Marketing Administration agreements.
The CIO United Steel Workers of America released a 56 page financial report listing membership at 725,625 and assets of 1,774,900 including 1,415,000 cash. Net income for seven months ending November 30, 1942, stood at 301,000.
U S senators from a Truman Committee sub panel toured the Curtiss-Wright warplane plant in Columbus and said production is far below schedule due to manpower and material shortages. They cited draft laws and loss of key workers as common issues across industry. Union leaders described good labor relations and absenteeism below average while Sea Gull production ran on schedule and Hell Diver consistently lagged.
Washington sources report a plan to raise the national 35 mph truck speed limit to move emergency war freight. Proposed by the War Department, supported by War Shipping and Maritime Commission, with Navy neutral. Rubber Director Jeffers allegedly approved a 60 day trial waiver.
Bennett Chapple, assistant to the president of the American Rolling Mill Co., told Ohio publishers in Columbus that faith in the future underlies postwar planning. He urged all workers from office boy to president to contribute and react quickly when plans are laid.
The Agriculture Department reported a record livestock total on January 1, with hogs and cattle driving the increase. The animal unit count was up 5 percent from last year and 11 percent above the 1932 41 average, while sheep horses and mules fell.
A Stockholm dispatch says the German battleship Tirpitz, famed as Europe’s strongest, conducted target practice in the North Sea as part of prewar naval readiness.
Ohio interurban bus lines will stay on War Time as legislation shifts the state to slow time this Sunday. C. J. Randall of the Ohio Motor Bus Association said 90 percent of firms won’t change schedules to Eastern Standard Time. Several city councils, including Lranton Canton Athens Mansfield and Zanesville, voted to retain fast time.
Albert D. Ebersbach 74 a longtime Pomeroy business figure died at Holzer Hospital after a long illness. Funeral at Mulberry Ave home Sunday 2 30, Beech Grove Cemetery interment. Survived by wife Emma, children Clarence Middleport L W Hench South Orange Florence Mees Edward Pomeroy Richard Roseland, brothers Charles Tampa Theodore Pomeroy sisters Sophia Fisher Columbus Helen Kerhus Columbus, eleven grandchildren and four great grandchildren. He worked in mining and road contracting, built roads in Eastern Ohio and West Virginia. member Bethany Methodist Church with Rev Nobel Rompel to conduct funeral. Friends may call at Ewing Funeral Home until Sunday morning.
Lima Peru reports a U S Peruvian agreement creating an air transport system to move rubber from Peru's inland jungle to river and sea ports. The accord was signed yesterday.
A four engine bomber crashed into the Frye & Company plant in Seattle after an engine fire during a test flight. Fifteen bodies were recovered within 12 hours, including 11 Boeing technicians aboard, as the crew fought to reach Boeing Field.
Field Marshal Erwin Rommel's thrust into central Tunisia was described as broken. A German broadcast said the British Eighth and First Armies were moving up on both flanks creating a developing north south squeeze as Allied forces advance in Tunisia.
At a press conference with Madame Chiang Kai-shek, President Roosevelt outlined hitting Japan through China as a base of operations and striking the Japanese islands. Allied and Axis actions detailed across Tunisia and Rostov fronts with heavy tank battles, withdrawals, and air raids.
Harold W. Boyle reports U S forces in Tunisia endured a tough withdrawal from Feriana and Sbeitla valley as German pressure pressed westward. American tank crews and infantry held the line while planes aided from the gray skies and French troops cheered the embattled defenders as victory signals spread amid almond groves and olive trees.
Logan oil field worker Robert Ennis 68 died after slipping from the top of a dismantling derrick near Bremen. Employed by National Supply Co Logan he died en route to a Bremen physician then Cherrington Hospital. Funeral plans pending. Surviving widow and three sons two daughters sisters and a brother reside in West Virginia and California.
Gandhi’s fast enters tenth day as he grows weaker and stops talking. Indian leaders at the annual conference express faint hope the United States will intervene to secure his release from detention by the British in Poona.
Secretary of War Stimson announces a new WAAC training center at Fort Devens Massachusetts and supports expanding the WAAC to its authorized strength of 150000. General George C Marshall backs the WAACS in a public statement.
George W. Taylor vice chairman of the National War Labor Board warned that any upward revision of the 15 percent Little Steel wage formula would endanger price control. He said raising the formula now would make it impossible to keep prices at the levels set by Congress in the wage price stabilization program.
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