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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1944
Page
1
Washington AP reports a drastic curb on occasional deferments for registrants aged 18 through 21, with only limited exceptions. The order delays pre father drafting and affects student deferments, aiming to boost forces as Hershey notes about the postwar manpower needs.
The McCoy family slaying was revisited with autopsies conducted to uncover new evidence. Two guns were used in the Thanksgiving Eve murder but neither weapon was recovered, and a search of the goffins ruled out their burial with the McCoys.
Clint Morris of Bet the Lunch received a picnic invitation mailed by his brother in law Ernest Coiner of Des Moines. The note is dated May 12, 1911.
Newark reports 80 year old Ora Keeran died Saturday as his three story home in Central City was wrecked by a fire and explosion. The pensioner lived alone.
The Army and Navy Journal says Roosevelt will push Congress to enact universal service this week as a counter to German propaganda and war weariness. It notes General Marshall’s anger at rail and steel strike threats described as a tragedy and a crime against America amid Allied intelligence reports.
War Production Board restrictions ban some industrial and commercial natural gas deliveries in the Appalachian area. Consumers with standby equipment must switch to other fuels until the Texas West Virginia pipeline is finished. Applies to Virginia Maryland Ohio Pennsylvania New York District of Columbia and 14 northwestern Kentucky counties.
William Kis sam Vanderbilt 65 former president of New York Central Railroad and noted yachtsman died Saturday in New York after a heart ailment forced his return from Florida before Christmas He was a wealthier man and a great grandson of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt founder of the railroad and family fortune
Mrs. Herbert Hoover, age 68 and widow of the 31st president, died in New York at the Waldorf Towers apartment after a sudden heart attack. Former President Hoover was at her side, the couple’s death occurring Friday night.
Philadelphia observers report three day strike at Cramp Shipbuilding as lines of workers block back to work efforts. Union officials say Local 42 will vote on a back to work order issued by John Green while Knox and the War Labor Board press for ending the walkout.
Frank Mcell editor of the St Clairsville Chronicle Gazette and formerly with Wheeling papers died unexpectedly Saturday at age 41. The obituary notes his leadership in local journalism and ties to Wheeling, West Virginia.
The War Department announced a policy to rotate combat troops with over two years overseas service from Alaska and the Caribbean back to the United States under ordinary conditions. North African theater personnel with more than 18 months overseas will also be returned. Plans for the South and Southwest Pacific rotations are near completion with spring as a possible start. Shipping space shortages are easing, but keeping full combat strength remains the priority while rotating troops to rest areas.
Washington plan to remove local screening exams for draft-eligibles and require a minimum 21 days notice for induction. Pre-induction examinations will be given at least 21 days before induction, with changes to furloughs and a staged buildup of eligible men. Registrants will receive five days notice before reporting to induction stations for pre-induction physicals.
Washington. Chairman Doughton urges simplification of federal tax laws as top task for the Ways and Means Committee. He proposes a tax for certain persons to reduce returns, while noting March 15 deadlines remain. Rep Carlson suggests making withholding the full tax to avoid returns. others call for plain English reform.
National Chairman Harrison E Spangler labeled the presidential campaign an essential war activity at a press conference ahead of a meeting of state chairmen and the RNC. He argued the campaign cannot be circumscribed by war time duties, though frills may be trimmed.
Wendell L. Willkie condemned Roosevelt's Doctor Win-the-War remark as an insidious doctrine that would make moral hypochondriacs of Americans. At the Metropolitan Opera rally he urged repudiation of the idea that the people are always sick and not robust.
At Westmoreland suburb a Baltimore and Ohio passenger train collided with an automobile late Friday night. Orville Hall 22 from Wayne died nine hours after the wreck. Morris Edward Gilkerson 17 of Prichard was killed and his brother Virgil Ray Gilkerson 16 died shortly after hospital admission. Three other occupants in the car were in critical condition.
Charles H. Warner, 71, co inventor of the automobile speedometer and other motor accessories, died in San Marino California. The death was reported Saturday after occurring Thursday.
The Southwestern plains region faced a historic winter storm paralyzing Oklahoma and the Texas Panhandle with up to 14 inches of snow on the level and drifts over eight feet. Communications failed and cattle feeders warned of huge losses due to feed shortages as Colorado declined to send plows. the storm stretched from New Mexico to Illinois and into Arkansas with extreme cold across multiple states.
President Roosevelt urged the War Department to grant the hold-out railroad brotherhoods the same nine cent hourly wage increase given to the others if they cancel their strike order. The Firemen Conductors and Switchmen unions refused to join, postponing the December strike rather than cancelling it.
The RAF drops leaflets in Stockholm stating the world is mobilized against Germany and that the time is a quarter to twelve. The Daily Mail cites Hitler’s boast they would fight until five minutes past twelve as the reference point.
The British Radio quoted its correspondent Frank Gillard saying Vesuvius was in eruption near Naples on Saturday.
A dramatic World War II tale recalls Major Gregory Boyington at Kahili Bougainville where Japanese pretended a radio contact. Boyington, recognizing the ruse, taunted the enemy and then flew through heavy fire to strafe positions and engage two Zeros before climbing again.
Sacramento California Republican leaders request Warren permit the use of his name as a Republican candidate for president at the state primary in May. He agreed, enabling his name to appear on ballots in California.
Red Army breaches German defenses along an 80 mile front in the Dnieper Bend, capturing Kirovograd and threatening a German retreat toward Odessa. Second Ukrainian Army advances toward Trinisy near the Bug River. Submarine losses push US tally to 546 ships sunk or damaged.
A Budapest dispatch reports fear in Hitler's Balkan satellites as Russian pushes near Romania widen. Romanian peasants flee blocked highways while frontier towns Cernauti and Chisinau dismantle factories. Antonescu plans a mountain stand as Iuliu Maniu may seek Moscow contact. In Italy, Fifth Army reaches Giusto near Cassino, advancing toward Monte Porchia and Mt Maio as a northern pincers forms toward Cassino.
Allied air forces pound Ludwigshafen and Mannheim in a major daylight strike described as a peak mission with hundreds of bombers and 42 German fighters downed. The attack follows a 12 hour pause and signals renewed pressure on Nazi industrial targets. MacArthur reports a large barge hunt across the Solomons to New Guinea with over 30 craft strafed or sunk as Allied forces close on trapped Japanese units near Madang.
The American Legion unveils a broad Bill of Rights for G I Joe and G I Jane to aid demobilization with up to 500 dollars pay, extended unemployment, home loans, education funding, and Veterans Bureau supervision. House aide Rankin cites cutting red tape. Chamber of Commerce leader Johnston pushes reemployment alongside mustering-out pay.
The White House defined termination rules for fixed price war supply contracts setting a maximum 6 percent profit on incomplete work and excluding facility conversion costs from contractor cost. The Byrnes directive directs procurement agencies to apply these principles as the first clear procedure for ending war contracts.
Brazilian and United States fleets say a German surfaced raider was sunk in the South Atlantic near Recife. The vessel was reported to be carrying war supplies to Germany from Japan.
Five Army airmen were killed and two injured when a B 26 Marauder crashed into a field near Kellogg Field Saturday. The midair or ground collision event occurred at the Battle Creek facility amid ongoing training sorties.
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