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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1942
Page
1
American and British staff officers study a limited continent diversion to pull German forces from Russia and preserve lines to the Soviet Union. A London informant cites plans for a swift action, while Japan readies Siberian moves and Aleutian lodgments amid Voronezh and Rostov fighting.
Ohio local selective service boards received updated guidance from national headquarters on classifying registrants under recent draft act amendments. The rules allow treating a wife or child as a dependent if a bona fide family relationship exists, even without the registrant’s income supporting them, and place emphasis on supplying manpower for war needs.
Rescue workers dug through a slag heap at the Oakwood Smokeless Coal Company to find three children believed buried after an explosion toppled six miners’ homes. A mother and two children are dead, four others injured. officials cite gas from burning slag as a cause.
Washington lawmakers press for news on when Roosevelt will seek supplemental price control legislation tied to wage stabilization. Reports say he may confer with Senate and House leaders as a recess debate looms. Also in New York Republicans fault unprepared troops blamed on war readiness concerns.
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The National Labor Relations Board ordered Marietta Manufacturing Company in Point Pleasant West Virginia to cease anti union actions and to offer reinstatement with back pay to 16 discharged employees who sought to join United Steel Workers Local 2328 or any labor group.
Ohio State University agriculture expert T. H. Parks warned that Hessian fly infestation threatens most of next fall's wheat crop. He reported current infestation at 69.4 percent in Butler County and said careful planting dates are essential to minimize losses in 1943.
In Steubenville Ohio a pickpocket took the Rev Daniel L Goodwins wallet a week ago Sunday. It was mailed back to him with the $2 missing but the clergy man reports valuable papers intact.
Des Moines IA, army policy restricts dating between single WAAC officers and non military men for now. Privates dating officers remains frowned upon, while basic auxiliaries keep dating privates under the auxiliary rating.
The Ohio State Guard opens a summer camp at Camp Hocking with 550 men at each post plus 550 at Camp Zaleski. Officers chart routes through southern Ohio hill country for week long maneuvers replacing the National Guard now in federal service. Adj. Gen. Donald F. Pancoast says first day’s work is satisfactory.
FCC Chairman James C. Fly warned at a press conference that most small and independent radio stations would be driven from business if denied transmissions and recordings. His remark targets AFL-CIO union President James C. Petrillo and his order banning members from making recordings for public use after July 31.
RAF four engined bombers raided the French invasion coast and Northwest Germany yesterday and last night, striking shipyards and U boat nests as part of renewed heavy air raids. The planed aggressive actions signaled continued heavy attacks on industrial targets and military installations.
A British led air and sea bombardment across occupied Europe and North Africa is reported as Britain pledges to increase American four motor bombers to a thousand a month. Allied forces claim heavy destruction of Axis aircraft and ships with new manpower plans from China to mobilize two million soldiers yearly.
Merrill Stubbs of the WPB conservation division said wartime policy allows requisitioning old cars. Any car or truck 60 days disrepair and not repairable may be scrapped unless good reasons exist for other action.
Four Oxford Stewart High School girls, three sisters Naomi 18 Pauline 16 Genevieve 14 and Ruth Clevenger 15, drowned at the Oxford Sand and Gravel Co pit. Bessie May 11 witnessed the event as the group waded near the edge. pit manager Ernest Rhodus recovered all four bodies from 25 feet below an underwater ledge.
Two young seamen from the United States Were rescued after their torpedoed ship was taken over by a German submarine. They were aboard for several hours and later placed in a lifeboat that had ample provisions. They drifted five days before rescue.
M L Annenberg publisher of the Philadelphia Inquirer and head of a racing publication empire died after a parole release from Lewisburg Penitentiary. He was 64 and had served 23 months of a three year sentence for income tax evasion involving a $10 million government payment.
Senator Norris forecast a large expansion of government synthetic rubber output as part of a farm bloc effort to push Senate action on creating an independent agency to oversee rubber production from grain alcohol. Senator Gillette addressed the nation on the issue, charging government agencies with fumbling and failing the program.
The Navy said four more merchantmen were sunk in the Western Atlantic while a single task force escorted 2,400 ships with only eight losses last winter. Eighty deaths and 130 rescues were reported in the latest AP tally, as the submarine saboteur case moved to defense evidence after 11 days of government proof.
Catalina pilots in the Aleutians fought Japanese bases at Dutch Harbor Kiska and Attu. They faced heavy losses yet continued bombing missions through fog and harsh seas, sinking ships and hitting carriers and subs while enduring intense anti aircraft and Zero fire.
Russian troops report tense fighting around Voronezh as they press attempts to swing German forces away from the Don bend. Russian airinfantry claim destruction of about 100 tanks while Moscow radio notes Lovangs reaching Koenigsberg with multiple fires.
Washington reports the rubber industry floated a plan to supply usable tires for at least two years. It calls for rationing under a new system with penalties for wasteful driving and trips. Three classes of rationing would favor essentials, but some tires could still be for pleasure driving.
In New York the strike shut down all Metropolitan naval construction tied to a 100 million project. Twenty six crafts allied with the Bronx board of business agents voted to halt work under the AFL affiliated Building and Construction Trades Council. The action halted a major defense effort amid wartime demands.
Washington delegate Dimond of Alaska called on War and Navy Departments to deploy a first class force to Alaska to drive out Japanese troops occupying three Aleutian islands. He compared the situation to Midway and warned Japan could imminently control Midway and Hawaiian areas. Dimond cited reports of a 25 000 strong Japanese force ready for the operation.
COLUMBUS four The Office of Price Administration hopes to conclude this week one of its biggest reorganization problems paring Ohio's 1 000 local rationing boards to about 221. Each county no matter how small still will have board.
Senate faced a measure to outlaw future fees for sales agents on war goods amid anger over commission profits running into millions. In Columbus, Probate Judge C P McClelland ordered 16-year-old Steadman Thompson confined in Lima State Hospital for the slaying of Dr Charles Owens, an Ohio State University chemistry instructor, shot in his lab in June.
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