12 Jul 1943
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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1943
Page
1
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A Bend teen, Mond McCall, is linked to fire setting cases investigated with authorities pursuing charges. Parents and local officials discuss safety and potential outcomes as the case unfolds.
Soviet communiques report seven days of costly combat with 2,500 German tanks lost and 1,068 planes. Red Army says it repelled more than 100 Nazi tank assaults near Belgorod while German and Allied air losses rise, including 31 planes in a day.
In Southwestern Pennsylvania soft coal fields a back-to-work trend emerged as four major steel company pits resumed operations and several smaller mines partially operated. About 14 000 miners remained absent while roving pickets vanished. At Big Gates mine noncooperation continued. Isabelle local members renewed defiance of the national back-to-work order.
Steubenville coroner said two 18 year olds Chester A Porter of Ngaun and Howard W Thomp of Newton were sitting on the track when a locomotive struck them yesterday near Illonvale. They did not hear the approaching train.
The National Labor Board reported that the AFL United Brick and Clay Workers failed to win a collective bargaining election at the Piibrico Brickless Firebrick Co. plant in Firebrick, Lawrence County, Ohio. Of 22 ballots cast, 14 were for the union and 8 against. The election occurred June 28 and the results were announced today.
General Manager J. P. Davey of Curtiss-Wright's airplane division parks here says most production problems on the Navy Helldiver have been solved. He responds to Truman Committee criticism noting the plant designed and built a dive bomber superior in range speed and bomb capacity.
The MacArthur Lock, named for General Douglas MacArthur, was dedicated at Sault Ste. Marie in a 13 month build by U S Army engineers. Costing about 14 million dollars, the 800 by 80 foot structure handles ships with a 39 foot draft, though current traffic is lighter at 25 feet.
Istanbul's fourteen daily newspapers in a delayed report scream headlines announcing the Allied invasion of Italy and editorially call the action the turning point in the war.
Senator Vandenberg urges a war cabinet to help President Roosevelt run the home front. He criticizes the current kitchen cabinet and calls for demobilizing the palace guard, a circle of advisers, as Congress returns to work.
Hollywood actress Janet Blair marries Sgt. Louis Bush a music arranger at Santa Ana air base and former pianist arranger for Hal Kemp in a Hollywood ceremony per her studio guide.
Canadian assault troops with a British flank overran Pachino Peninsula within 24 hours establishing an invasion bridgehead. Casualties were light with fewer than 40 reported. over 700 prisoners including 15 officers captured as Canadian ships bombarded coastal defenses and supported the landing.
At Camp Shenango Pennsylvania one Black soldier was killed and six others wounded in an incident Sunday evening between white and colored troops. Colored soldiers reportedly entered a supply building armed with rifles and fired on white soldiers. The dead man died at 10 47 p m and six others were admitted for gunshot wounds. A board of inquiry was appointed by Col Zim E Lawhon to investigate.
Youngstown report states Illinois Steel Corporation reduced output at six major Ohio works blast furnaces by about 25 percent for a second time due to a coal strike. To conserve coke, the furnaces now operate as if four and a half furnaces were in use, likely lowering overall steel tonnage.
Allied air units hammered four Japanese bases in the Southwest Pacific led by Munda in the Solomons. Liberators dropped 40 tons on Kahili, with raids on Vunakanau at Rabaul, and Mitchells plus P 38s strafed trails from Mubo to Salamaua. Losses included one Liberator, two Allied fighters, and nine Zeros downed.
Columbus Ohio wartime travel limits reduced state revenue from certificates of title and licenses. Highway Director Hal G. Sours reported official totals showing six months of 1942 revenue at 27,451,556 dropping to 25,986,307 in the first half of the current year.
Allied headquarters report Montgomery and Patton led rapid advances along Sicily's east and south coasts from Syracuse toward Messina. American, British and Canadian units seized ports including Licata Gela Scoglitti and Syracuse while repelling multiple German Italian counterattacks and sinking enemy vehicles.
Allied forces under the Stars and Stripes in Tunisia press into Sicily with British divisions advancing toward Messina after taking Syracuse. Air and naval power support pincer movements along the coast as American troops control Gela and air raids hit Catania and airfields in Reggio Calabria and Vibo Valentia. Parachutists and glider troops assault coastal defenses with minimal losses as transports pour in shipments and supplies.
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