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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1943
Page
5
The U S Navy says preliminary info shows Japanese losses were heavy in the Kula Gulf action off the Solomons though it is not seen as a decisive battle. The destroyer Strong was torpedoed and sunk during a bombardment of Vila installations.
Allied reports describe a fierce air battle over Gerbini Sicily during a Flying Fortress raid in which American gunners downed about 30 of 100 attacking fighters. Liberators from the Middle East joined missions hitting Licata Marsala Sciacca and Messina causing extensive damage to ferry terminals and railway assets.
Berlin’s Mossdorf says MacArthur’s South Pacific push could mark a turning point for Japan as Tokyo risks ships in a bid to halt American advances. He notes Japanese naval strength split between home and South Pacific fleets, with air power proving superior to Japan’s. American gains include Vangunu and Rendova, while Japanese air losses mount and overall casualties remain light.
Allied aircraft, including many fighter squadrons, flew over the Channel toward the French coast in bright sunshine. Berlin claimed British bombers conducted night raids on Germany with reports of nuisance attacks over Western and Northern Germany. RAF damaged an armed Dutch coastal vessel and US Eighth Air Force said Le Mans factory sections were damaged in June and July raids. Air Ministry noted heavy industrial damage from Cologne raids.
Interior Secretary Ickes, as head of government mines, ordered federal mine managers to meet safety and health standards, to enforce laws and regulations, and to report actions taken to implement inspectors’ recommendations, aiming to protect miners and ensure maximum production.
The Senate Small Business Committee backed raising the nationwide poultry price ceiling from 28 to 30 cents and urged armed forces to requisition black market poultry at the ceiling. It called for ceiling prices on hatching eggs and baby chicks with costs incl. feed, plus voluntary transport controls and policing. The group said OPA rules are inadequate to keep poultry flowing to consumers and that penalties would apply to losses from black market deals.
Eighteen men are believed drowned after a freighter struck a tug in Bedford Basin near Halifax. Initial reports said 18 of the 23 men aboard the tug were unaccounted for following the midday crash.
Chungking reports General Chiang Kai-Shek declares a two year limit for the utter defeat of Japan on the eve of the war’s sixth anniversary. He predicts a seven year war ending with a cascade of Allied victories and a global offensive across theaters. Ho Ying-Chin adds Allied strength grows, Japan faces manpower and material shortages, and predicts about 3 million Japanese casualties.
Detroit reports approximately a million car owners have stored vehicles amid a shrinking stock of used cars. Automotive News warns a transportation crisis looms unless stores are released for sale as no new cars have been built since February 1942 and dealer inventories fall to about 150,000 units.
The Associated Press reports wartime travel limits cut holiday deaths with 298 total over the weekend, 127 traffic fatalities. Last year 320 traffic deaths. in 1941 pre restrictions about 500. No fireworks deaths this year. Ohio tally includes four traffic accidents four drownings four miscellaneous causes.
The War Production Board ordered newspaper publishers to cut newsprint use for 1943's third quarter by up to five percent for large users. Previously papers were limited to 100 percent of 1941 tonnage plus three percent waste. the 10 percent reduction target was not met. The move follows advisory committee recommendations approved by labor officials.
OPA investigators in Cleveland cited only three motorists for non-essential driving after checking Northern Ohio pleasure resorts over the weekend holiday. Hugo V. Prucha said 132 motorists with B and C gasoline rations were interviewed at Cedar Point Geneva Lakeside Catawba Point and Pymatuning Lake. three residents across 19 districts were ordered to appear for a hearing.
An Akron Ohio driven head on collision near Mariaville Pa Sunday killed eight people and left five injured. Only 18 month old Thomas Boland Jr. survived unhurt in a blaze involving two autos carrying 14 passengers. Mrs Philip Boland 30 of Akron also died. Governor Bricker named George S Middleton to the Third District Court of Appeals. George McCommons 41 of Salem died from injuries after his car hit a bridge abutment near here Sunday.
Congress and the administration clash over crop insurance funds and the Guffey Act. Senate and House dispute funding for a one year extension while postwar probes target government competition with private enterprise. Treasury studies a war tax plan to widen exemptions for high earners.
London reports Field Marshal Baron Von Richthofen, commander of the German air fleet in the Battle of Britain, has been sent to Italy to reinforce defenses against mounting air raids. Italian Fascist officials push for continued resistance despite bombing.
The War Department made a final payment of 418800 to Ohio for road reconstruction in the Muskingum Watershed Conservancy District. The total federal aid reaches 2753902 with funds frozen until reconstruction can resume due to War restrictions on road work.
Representative Hartley says the Office of Price Administration will relax gasoline restrictions in 12 eastern states to allow vacation trips by "A" card holders after July 15. Hartley noted the agreement was reached after several days of talks with OPA Director Prentiss M. Brown.
The Office of Price Administration ruled no more special gasoline rations for victory gardeners after July 12. Rations already issued may be used if valid, as the Agriculture Department determined gardens planted after July 12 would be too late to justify tire and gasoline use.
General Henri Giraud will confer in Washington with British and American chiefs of staff on the war against the Axis. Presidential Secretary Stephen Early stressed the visit is of a military character and concerns his role as head of French forces in North Africa.
London reports a German foreign office white paper blaming Britain for civilian bombings while omitting wartime casualties. It accuses Churchill and Roosevelt of guiding a war to terror and threatens retaliatory measures marked as “eye for eye” and “tooth for tooth.”
Six foot two Jesse Jones the RFC head and Vice President Henry Wallace clashed over BEW policy and wartime materials. Jones delivered a fiery 7500 word critique while Milo Perkins of B and W countered accusing the RFC of inaction. The feud targets Roosevelt era policy and may need the President’s personal mediation.
Coroner L A Adair ruled the death of Dr J F Steiner 59 missionary to China and former Japanese prisoner was by his own action. He died Sunday night after returning to the U S on Grisholm with five months in a Hong Kong camp. Funeral services were set in Pandora. Columbus J L Ray Laughlin Akron businessman and former Mansfield Reformatory prisoner was pardoned by Gov Bricker to apply for an Army commission.
Representative Weiss ordered ration boards in his district to ignore an OPA ruling denying supplementary gasoline for servicemen on furlough. He urged boards to evaluate each case on its merits and grant fuel to soldiers, criticizing the regulation as unfair and “asinine.” He also condemned policies restricting gas to voters or donors, arguing plasma transfusions save lives.
Soviet dispatches report heavy fighting on a 165 mile front between Orel Belgorod and Kursk. Soviet lines repelled German armored thrusts, claiming 6000 German fatalities and 738 tanks destroyed in the first 24 hours, while Berlin said German losses were heavy.
Allied headquarters in Australia announces a Flying Fortress crew awarded the Oak Leaf Cluster in lieu of a second air medal for bravery in the Battle of the Bismarck Sea. Sgt. Dale W. Alston of Crooksville is among the honored, praising the unit for sinking a Japanese transport and together destroying 22 transports and warships in March.
The House Rules Committee effectively killed a stopgap resolution to extend the Guffey Bituminous Coal Act beyond its August 23 expiration, by majority vote. The move ends a seven year effort to regulate the soft coal industry and stabilize it through a temporary extension to January.
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