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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1946
Page
1
Washington AP report notes the draft law's expiration on May 15 could end the selective service. Army officials fear difficulties in locating demobilization replacements as the law nears its sunset while House Military Committee leaders indicate readiness to let the program die.
President Truman will submit a single combined State of the Union and budget message to Congress on Monday, saying one document will serve as well as two. Eisenhower told lawmakers that by June 30 the draft will end for those with two years’ service or 30 points, shifting reliance to enlistment and universal training. Senate leaders seek faster demobilization data from Royall as they push to clarify civilian return numbers for about 2,000,000 servicemen while Nimitz and Denfeld outline ongoing Army and Navy plans.
Ohio Supreme Court for first time in 32 years invokes writ of protecenda against Hamilton County Domestic Relations Judge Charles W. Hoffman ordering him to hear a divorce case in Columbus.
Washington reports that the United States shipped about 1,182,000 tons of coal to Europe in December 1945 and announced an allocation of 1,500,000 tons for January 1946.
British war crime investigators announced the completion of an inquiry into Nazi baby farms near Brunswick. They report 462 infants died across Velpke and Ruehen facilities with 92 and 370 deaths respectively. Sixteen men and three women were arrested for trial.
Gen. Chang Chun, governor of Szechwan and government representative on the truce committee, testified at the political consultation conference that new armed clashes in North China violate the recently signed Government-Communist peace pact.
Betty Lou Gorrell five month old daughter of Mr and Mrs Albert Gorrell suffocated in crib covers at Gibsonsburg home late yesterday. A shed full of scarce plumbing equipment valued at 77315 000 was saved yesterday by firemen at Mount Vernon Hospital building project.
A massive explosion at Havaco Mine No 9 in Welch West Virginia killed 13 miners and left 254 survivors. The blast blew upward shattering windows within a thousand feet and injured 41 people including five women and children. Officials suspect the shock originated near the base of the shaft as investigators inspect the site.
The CIO AFL meat workers strike largely bypassed Ohio but still cuts the state's meat supply by about half. Columbus was hit hardest with 1,000 AFL strikers, leaving David Davies Packing Co. as the sole supplier. Cleveland and Cincinnati see substantial shortfalls, while electrical workers strike widens across the state.
Secretary of Agriculture Anderson approved increases totaling nearly a million acres for 1946 crop goals. The final plan calls for 296,001,000 acres planted across crops, up from 286,831,900 acres the prior year, with slight livestock goal revisions and a spring pig crop target of 51,652,000 head.
The University of Cincinnati will train scholarship students in aeronautical engineering in cooperation with the Richard Ira Bong Memorial Foundation, which plans to offer fifty $1,000 awards annually to honor America's ace of aces and other Allied airmen who died in World War II. Dr. Raymond Watters said UC was the first Ohio college chosen to assist in educating top aviation-oriented high school graduates.
A Moscow conference opens with Korea divided along the 38th Parallel. A Russian American and Korean delegation meets with American officials to set an economic foundation for a unified Korea. The aim is to mesh the industrial north under the Russians with the agricultural south under the Americans.
Senator Magnuson urged Britain transfer some island bases as part of any loan. He cited President Truman’s pledge to keep exclusive control of needed Pacific islands and said bases from the Aleutians to the Pacific could be part of the deal. He argued bases in barren islands may hold military value despite economic loss.
Donald Breitigan 21-year-old trucker’s helper confessed aiding the slaying of Otto Jaeschke 55 in Kentucky and said he finished the job with a crowbar after the hammer handle broke. He waived extradition from Findlay Ohio and is to be returned to Stanford Kentucky.
Columbus notes state treasurer Don E. Ebright announcing the balance topped 200 million at close of business yesterday. The total stood at 200,181,352 with 94,990,600 in U S bonds 570,000,000 in active depositories and the remainder in active accounts.
Delegates to the United Nations General Assembly monitor Iran as Premier Ibrahim Hakim tells parliament direct talks with Russia over Azerbaijan have failed. Britain and Russia delay evacuation by March 2 and are accused of interference as Iran warns of a destabilizing situation.
Trumbull County Commissioners decide to implement voting machines for county elections to modernize balloting and improve efficiency. The move signals a shift in local election administration and may affect voting procedures and equipment costs.
President Truman called steel firms and CIO to the White House for fresh talks to avert an 800,000 worker strike. Wage debates with Benjamin Fairless and Philip Murray resumed, with a 15 cent offer from U S Steel and a 20 cent demand from the CIO. The president expressed optimism a settlement could come before the Monday deadline.
In Cleveland Up news Maj Gen Robert S Beightler urged creating an Ohio bureau to handle and coordinate veterans problems to prevent a separate veterans bloc. He warned against any arrangement risking loss of faith or a split between war and nonwar Americans.
Jean Peters a 19 year old sophomore from Ohio University in East Canton says she will not go to Hollywood until Ohio State's quarter ends on March 17. She has a Twentieth Century Fox contract as Miss Ohio State of 1945 and may visit for another screen test.
Senator Thomas of Oklahoma urged higher prices wages and pensions as the solution to the public debt. He said inflation is acceptable if it helps raise money to pay taxes and insisted the nation must make money.
A New York designer, Joseph Zelano, received Patent No. 2391535 for a peek-a-boo summer suit featuring lace insets for cooling. The outfit includes a drape cape and lace along trouser legs sleeves and back, with flap closures to seal openings in a draft.
About 65 ex GIs from Lansford led a dawn picket at Panther Valley mines while 6,000 coal miners refused to cross lines and returned home. The veterans accused firms of hiring outsiders during the war and said Panther Valley residents lack local work. United Mine Workers Local 1704 met but offered no action.
Testimony at the international war crimes tribunal linked Baldur von Schirach to the deportation of about 60 000 Vienna Jews to Poland and their likely deaths. Capt. Drexel Sprecher cited the Nazi leader's own statements placing Jews into the East Ghetto and noted property confiscations in Vienna.
The 20,614 ton liner Argentina sails from New York for Southampton to fetch 550 brides of American servicemen and their babies, carrying thousands of diapers cribs bassinets and pink and blue blankets for British mothers.
Admiral Husband E. Kimmel faces further questioning on his 25 000 word Pearl Harbor testimony before the Pearl Harbor investigating committee Seth Richardson committee counsel says he will press every key point raised in yesterday's session The other front reports General MacArthur's purge order forces the resignation of So taro Ishiwata imperial household minister who controlled the emperor's purse
A survey of 30 000 Ohio employers finds one in ten male workers are World War II veterans, rising from 57 to 102 per thousand between Sept and Nov. 1945. The Ohio Postwar Program Commission expects 200 000 more jobs by April 15 and two million employed statewide, with reconversion near complete and plans for new plants and higher production.
A walkout began in over 100 packing plants threatening a national meatless diet with about 268000 workers striking. Secretary of Labor Schwe ll en bach appealed to CIO and AFL leaders to delay the action, but AFL leaders indicated they would not.
Electrical device plants of GE Westinghouse and GM halt work across 79 facilities prompting Civilian Production Administration head John Small to seek voluntary rationing. CIO calls for raises amid meat and steel strikes affecting tens of thousands of workers and broad supply chains.
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