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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1943
Page
1
U S naval authorities say preliminary reports indicate Japan suffered very heavy damage in the Battle of Kula Gulf off the Solomons. The engagement is viewed as not decisive but significant in forcing Japanese to fight. The destroyer Strong was torpedoed and sunk during an attack on Vila installations.
Allied headquarters recount a furious Gerbini air battle where Liberators helped sink 30 of about 100 Axis fighters. Bombing on Licata Marsala Sciacca and Messina damaged rail lines oil depots ferries and airfields while 12 Allied planes were lost. Crete raids followed with British forces destroying airfields and planes.
Berlin correspondent cites German military analyst Otto Mossdorf predicting MacArthur's offensive could tilt the war with Japan. The piece compares Guadalcanal and Munda to Attu, notes Japanese fleet risk, hints at split Japanese naval command, and reports U S gains on Wangunu and Rendova with light overall casualties.
Allied aircraft flew in daylight over Europe toward the French coast as a Berlin report described nighttime raids by British bombers on Germany. The RAF damaged an armed vessel off the Dutch coast and U S forces reported satisfactory results from the Le Mans Gnome-Rhone factory bombing. Photographs confirmed heavy industrial damage from RAF raids on Cologne last week and earlier.
Interior Secretary Ickes, head of government coal mines, ordered steps to bring safety and health in the mines up to legal standards. He instructed federal mine managers to comply with laws and to report promptly measures taken to implement inspectors safety recommendations.
The Senate Small Business Committee urged raising the national farm price ceiling for poultry from 28 to 30 cents. It proposed armed forces requisition of poultry from black markets at the ceiling and called for ceiling prices on hatching eggs and baby chicks with costs including feed. The panel said current OPA rules fail to ensure normal producer to consumer flow and urged voluntary transportation controls and policing.
Halifax reports a freighter collided with a tug in Bedford Basin just before noon. Eighteen men believed drowned, two dozen aboard the tug were unaccounted for after the crash. Broad search underway as authorities investigate the harbor disaster.
Chiang Kai-Shek told Chungking the two year limit to utterly defeat Japan cannot be exceeded and promised an offensive in multiple theaters with ongoing Allied victories. War minister Ho Ying-Chin backed the outlook, noting Japan’s manpower, air and sea weaknesses and about 3,000,000 Japanese casualties.
Detroit report notes about one million owners storing vehicles for the duration. Automotive News says the stockpile of used cars is shrinking and a transport crisis may come unless stored autos are sold. No new cars have been assembled since February 1942 and dealers’ new car inventories are under 150,000 units.
Wartime limits on highway use during the July 4 weekend saved lives. An Associated Press tally shows at least 298 total deaths with 127 traffic fatalities. Last year 320 traffic deaths. in 1941 pre restrictions there were 500. No fireworks deaths reported. Ohio deaths: 4 traffic, 4 drownings, 4 miscellaneous.
The War Production Board ordered newspaper publishers to cut newsprint consumption in 1943's third quarter by up to five percent for large users. Earlier limits tied quarterly paper tonnage to 1941 levels plus three percent waste, implying about ten percent reduction, which was not achieved. The new cut follows recommendations from the Newspaper Industry Advisory Committee and the Labor Advisory Committee.
In Cleveland district over the weekend, Office of Price Administration investigators cited only three of 132 motorists found at Cedar Point Geneva Lakeside Catawba Point and Pymatuning Lake for violations of non essential driving regulations. Hugo V. Prucha announced the three defendants, residents of 19 counties, must appear for a hearing.
Investigation into a head-on collision near Marienville Pennsylvania delayed as five Akron residents remain in hospital. Seven occupants in one car died at the scene and eight total fatalities included Mrs. Philip Boland of Akron. The lone survivor was 18 month old Thomas Boland Jr. of Akron. George Middleton appointed to Third District Court of Appeals by Governor Bricker. George McCommons of Salem dies from injuries after automobile strike on a bridge abutment.
Congress and the administration clash over crop insurance funds and the Guffey Act as lawmakers seek to curb government business involvement. A Senate postwar probe targets government restraints on industry while Treasury explores a war profits tax shift. Officials report Roosevelt weighs options after Vinson rejects a small railway pay raise.
London reports Field Marshal Baron Von Richthofen, commander of the German air fleet in the Battle of Britain, has been dispatched to Italy to raise defenses against mounting aerial assaults. German forces from occupied France and the Low Countries are cited. Fas cist officials push for continued fighting while Virginio Gayda warns Italians against capitulation.
The War Department issued a final payment of 418400 to Ohio for Muskingum Watershed Conservancy District road reconstruction. Total federal funding reaches 2753902 with funds frozen until construction resumes. War restrictions currently limit road work in the area.
Representative Hartley says the Office of Price Administration has agreed to relax gasoline restrictions for eastern seaboard states. A card holding motorists may take vacation trips after July 15 following discussions with OPA Director Prentiss M. Brown.
Washington announces no more gasoline rations for victory gardeners after July 12 though existing allocations remain valid. Agriculture Department says gardens planted after July 12 would not produce enough food to justify extra fuel use.
General Henri Giraud will meet with British and American chiefs of staff in Washington to discuss war plans against the Axis. Presidential Secretary Stephen Early stressed the visit will be purely military in nature and linked to Giraud's leadership of French forces in North Africa.
London reports a German white paper accusing Britain of civilian attacks while omitting German casualties. It blames Churchill and Roosevelt for war and warns of retaliation including eye for an eye measures.
Washington reports a deepening public rift between Jesse Jones of the RFC and Henry Wallace of BEW over war material purchases. Jones delivered a blistering 7500 word critique to the Senate appropriations committee, while Milo Perkins answered in a letter, accusing the RFC of delay and inaction.
Coroner L A Adair returned a death by own action verdict in the case of Dr J F Steiner 59 years old Presbyterian missionary to China for over two decades and later a Japanese prisoner He died Sunday night after returning to Pandora Ohio his birthplace Funeral services were set for today Friends said he never recovered from confinement in a Japanese camp at Hong Kong He had spent five months in custody and came home aboard the Grisholm last August Also Akron businessman L Ray Laughlin was pardoned by Governor Bricker to permit him to seek an Army commission
Representative Weiss directed 30th Pennsylvania ration boards to ignore an OPA ruling denying supplementary gasoline to servicemen on furlough. He urged boards to judge each case on its merits, calling the policy asinine and stating it enflames patriotic Americans. He also criticized refusals to gasoline Butler motorists seeking to transport blood donors to Pittsburgh.
Soviet forces repelled major Nazi thrusts along a 165 mile front with heavy losses for Germany. Moscow said 6,000 Germans killed and 738 tanks destroyed in the first 24 hours as fighting spread from Orel Belgorod toward Kursk. The German drive began near the Belgorod sector and aimed at key targets north of Kursk and Moscow. The Russian communique tallied 586 tanks and 203 planes destroyed early, with further losses as the day progressed.
Crooksville resident Sgt Dale W Alston and fellow Flying Fortress crew members earned the Oak Leaf Cluster in lieu of a second air medal for bravery in the Bismarck Sea battle. The unit helped sink a Japanese transport and joined others in destroying 22 transports and warships last March.
The House Rules Committee tabled a stopgap resolution to extend the Guffey Bituminous Coal Act beyond its Aug. 23 expiration, delaying government regulation of the soft coal industry until Jan. 1.
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