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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1943
Page
11
Soviet brief says in the Orel sector Russian forces breach last fortified links as Bolkhov falls within thirteen miles and columns reach near the city. Moscow reports heavy German losses including tanks and aircraft in day of offensives with large counterclaims from Berlin.
Washington officials viewed Moscow’s appeal to Germans to topple Hitler as a tentative but significant propaganda move. The manifesto urged a genuine German government to end military actions and begin peace talks, aiming to weaken the German home front ahead of any Allied plan. Some privately feared it could provoke tougher German resistance if perceived Soviet aims loomed large.
The French air force, disarmed by the Nazis, is being rebuilt in the United States for renewed combat against the Axis. Hundreds of airmen with North African army service are moving into billets in the Southeast for new aeronautical training. Most are noncommissioned officers of sergeant rank or higher.
President Joseph A. Beirne of the National Federation of Telephone Workers speaks in Cleveland urging members to resist pressure from CIO or AFL to affiliate with either side. He accuses the labor groups of compromising by taking positions that entangle control of the telephone industry.
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co announces the opening of a new tire plant in Peru, expanding its South American operations and marking a major step in its overseas production capacity.
Akron idle CIO United Rubber Workers at General Tire and Rubber Co rose to 1200 as more workers joined a second week long stoppage. All passenger and truck tire departments closed. union leaders urged end of action and awaited War Labor Board guidance.
MOUNDSVILLE West Virginia speculation grows that large scale mining may resume in Round Bottom after Hanna Coal Company of Cleveland acquired about 5400 acres of coal lands there. Hanna also reportedly holds options on abandoned surface equipment of the Panama mine and the McKeefrey Coal Co south of Moundsville.
Edwin T. Rowland 25 and Mae Rowland 20 of Cumberland Gap Tenn were fatally injured when their car collided with a gasoline truck at the U S Route 22 and State Route 159 intersection. Shafter W. Alberry 43 of Columbus the truck driver was slightly injured.
Physicians linked a spider bite on the left elbow to a fatal infection that claimed the life of 68 year old contractor John Kimble two weeks after the bite in Tiffin.
Gov. John W. Bricker approved a change in Gallia County judicial assignments. John W. Howell moves from Common Pleas to Probate Court and William P. Cherrington becomes Common Pleas Judge, effective after resignations and reappointments. Both were initially appointed November 12. Howell had served as Probate Judge before the switch.
Mrs Rosa Wilt 83 died this morning at her daughter Mrs William Smith home in Middleport Funeral services will be held Sunday at 2 PM at Poplar Ridge Church with burial nearby She also leaves another daughter Mrs Hollis Shoemaker of Middleport and three sons Charles and Isaac of Middleport and Wilder of Bucyrus
Allied troops in Sicily announced the capture of Admiral Pirato Leonard, commander of the Augusta naval base, as part of ongoing North Africa operations.
Elizabeth Truitt private secretary to Herbert Hoover when he led the food administration in World War I died yesterday near Sligo.
President Roosevelt said Allies failed to compel Rome to declare open city, citing airports and marshalling yards, and said bombing to protect American and British lives was necessary. Pacific Fleet ships bombarded Kiska as part of the Aleutian campaign and air raids hit Soerabaja, MacArthur reporting heavy bombers hitting oil facilities and docks in Java.
Columbus The bridge commission announced it would redeem all bonds maturing this year on four state owned toll spans. Ray Palmer secretary treasurer said $48 000 of Pomeroy Mason bonds were paid in April with an expected Oct 1 retirement bringing the total to 88 000. He noted WV valuation cuts to the bridges and last year reductions would trim taxes by nearly 11 000 annually. About 80 percent of the three spans lie inside West Virginia.
MARION Ohio Maj Philip E Gruber plant commandant said changes at the Scioto Ordnance Plant placed on stand by by the War Department will keep current employment and may raise it. Conversion of a section to small arms production likely finished by the time the plant completes its artillery ammunition schedule.
Oral Daugherty, a two mine operator in Athens County, lauds a tentative contract between United Mine Workers and Illinois bituminous operators. He says government control has produced instability, lower production, and red tape, and urges wage increases for coal miners to match living costs and war needs.
John McCarrens, 74, publisher of The Cleveland Plain Dealer, was critically injured by four bullet wounds in his fourth floor office. The assailant, Herbert L. Kobrak, 55, shot himself after also firing a bullet in his temple. Kobrak left notes indicating a plan to kill McCarrens months earlier.
Washington AP report says operators in Illinois push War Labor Board to enforce a contract requiring miners sign a pending WLB action offering portal-to-portal pay. Illinois pact includes 1.25 daily portal-to-portal pay, eight-hour day, 48-hour week, and time and a half after 35 hours. WLB rejected portal-to-portal pay as hidden wage increase last month.
Major General William P. Upshur a veteran leatherneck hero and commanding general of the Marines for the Pacific department died in a fiery plane crash near Sitka Alaska. Captain Charlie Paddock Olympic track star of the twenties also perished along with four others. The cause of the crash remained undetermined. Upshur a Richmond Virginia native and Virginia Military Institute graduate joined the Marine Corps as a second lieutenant in 1904.
A strike by about 1,500 open hearth workers at Bethlehem Steel's Johnstown plant begins after a worker accused of fomenting two prior strikes was dismissed. General Manager Ralph E. Hough announced the walkout started last night and could shut the plant.
Chungking reports more than 800 Japanese sailors killed when an enemy gunboat laden with explosives struck a mine and sank near Matang on the Yangtze River. The incident is described as a major loss with the gunboat going down in the river.
Columbus state commerce director Charles H. Jones reported Gov. Bricker’s committee on Ohio gasoline found no justification for additional rationing now or in the foreseeable future. The panel, including petroleum production and marketing men and transport representatives, noted Ohio usage in the first four months of this year ran about 40 percent of 1941. If cuts become necessary for military reasons, they should be national rather than regional.
Warren transit workers resume service after a strike ending with an agreement with Mayor Robert H. Roberts. A bargaining election will determine if the AFL Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway and Motor Coach Employees represents a majority of Warren Transportation Co. drivers.
Dr. Joaquim Salgano Brazilian air minister with South American and US officers toured Wright Field yesterday on a national tour. He stated at a press conference via interpreter that Brazilian pilots flying American built planes had curbed the submarine threat in the South Atlantic.
Mrs. Fred M. Orr 65 Mahoning County Red Cross chairman for 28 years was fatally injured in an automobile bus crash near her Youngstown home.
General Henri Giraud arrives in North Africa after completing a tour of the United States Canada and England. The visit underscores Allied coordination as reassigned leadership in the Free French forces continues.
Allied headquarters report American troops seized Palermo, Sicily, after a 58 hour drive from Etna, with Patton’s 3rd Army entering the city at 10 a.m. The fall cuts off western Axis escape routes while Montgomery’s 8th Army breaches near Catania.
A spokesman for the Office of Price Administration warned of a critical egg shortage by next December. He said it would be the worst in U S history and mention of a black market, noting no plan for mid winter egg rationing is being considered due to the scale of the problem.
American reconnaissance reports the Japanese on Kiska have finished a 3700 foot airstrip after ongoing construction. The island has endured repeated bombing as Allied forces contest the area and prepare for potential combat.
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