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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1943
Page
1
A damaged OCR fragment mentions items for sale and a table related to a manufacturer. The garbled text obscures specifics but implies an auction or sale event with various goods and a large item involved. Names, dates, or locations are unreadable.
Readable fragments hint at a cautionary note or warning phrase possibly tied to an older notice or brief. No clear names, dates, or locations emerge to identify a specific event or person.
Allied air activity intensifies in the Pacific with raids on Bougainville and Kiska in the Aleutians. US forces bomb Japanese positions as Attu and Rabaul targets are attacked, while Chinese commandos push operations along the Yangtze front and recapture Sangtze.
Washington report notes lowered standards may reclaim over 2.8 million men rejected for physical reasons. Navy relaxations could delay drafting of fathers by three to four months, with August 1 cited as a key date. McNutt and Hershey say many fit fathers may yet serve, while overall intake skews toward nonfathers and occupational deferrals.
Senate hours are devoted to McKellar plan to require confirmation of federal employees earning over 4500 annually. President Roosevelt calls the measure a tragic mistake. Senator O Mahoney notes a substitute to limit confirmation to policy making officials.
Police report a drowning occurred in the Big Sandy River at Millard near Pikeville. A 17 year old identified as Childers drowned during an swimming incident yesterday. Local rescue crews responded but efforts were unsuccessful.
Spokane report notes a playful designation for June 30 to honor mothers-in-law. The piece mocks pre war bravado and mentions an athletic group endorsing the idea, urging kindness to mothers-in-law nationwide.
President Roosevelt designates June 14 as a united Flag Day honoring 32 nations allied with the United States. The Allied flags fly alongside Old Glory as the Four Freedoms banner debuts, symbolizing liberty, speech, religion, and freedom from want and fear.
Washington reports near normal operations in coal pits as AFL and CIO pledge to appeal to President Roosevelt to veto the anti-strike measure. Roosevelt has ten days to act while Capitol Hill expects passage. Lewis faces criticism for mine stoppages as the War Labor Board weighs underground travel pay for miners.
Pope Pius XII urged discipline and faith to workers and warned against false prophets of social prosperity sowing discord between capital and labor. He told about 20 000 Italian workers at the Vatican that salvation should not come from revolution overturning the social order. He also denounced anti religious war propaganda accusing the Pope of supporting war.
Midwest congressmen pledged to oppose extending gasoline sales restrictions and will meet tomorrow with Petroleum Administrator Ickes and rationing officials. Rep. Clarence J Brown said the group from 13 states argues refineries are full, opposing a driving ban extension. Also, Senate and House leaders were invited to a White House conference on food relief for Axis liberation areas, led by Stephen Early with Hull and Lehman present.
A new unidentified disease with high mortality was disclosed by U S Public Health Service physicians before a House committee. First found near New Iberia Louisiana with 17 cases and eight deaths, mostly nurses. Animal cases suggest a pneumonia like illness. researchers expect to identify the causative agent.
Allied bombers attacked Germany's Rhineland and Sicily gateways to Italy amid a mid June lull in land fighting. RAF bombers hit Rhineland targets while U S four engine bombers struck Bremen and Kiel suffering 26 losses, the heaviest in a single raid. Linosa surrendered after heavy bombing and naval shelling. Pantelleria and Lampedusa had fallen earlier.
The War Production Board assured Ohio farmers that 185 regional firms will boost output after July 1 to about 80 percent of 1940 levels. N T Hasenflue, WPB farm machinery consultant for Ohio and surrounding states, said the sector accounts for about 20 percent of the national total in farm machinery.
The Marine Corps League of Ohio asks the Federal Government to issue insignia and certificates to draft-age men in essential occupations who were rejected for physical disability or honorably discharged. The league argues the insignia would prevent these men from being labeled slackers.
Washington AP report shows 1942 overall death rate at 10.3 per 1000, down from 10.5 in 1941. Maternal mortality hits a record low, infant mortality declines to about 40-41 per 1000 live births, while birth rate rises from 18.7 to 20.7 per 1000. Industrial fatalities rise slightly, offsetting fewer auto deaths.
Senator Gillette of Iowa called for a speedy Senate investigation into a proposal to feed peoples in Axis-overrun countries. The plan would join with Great Britain, Sweden and Switzerland to establish an international food relief system separate from aid by a proposed United Nations relief and rehabilitation administration.
New York reports no western Atlantic merchant sinkings last week marking a pause in U boat activity. Officials cite improved anti submarine actions and compare current losses to this year and to 1942 averages.
In San Diego eight year old Dorleen Dawn Peabody who had been in a 65 day coma from sleeping sickness showed signs of waking after violin teacher Robert Kranz played by her bedside. She began humming the melody and then spoke for the first time since mid April.
Senators Robert A. Taft and Harold H. Burton, both Ohio Republicans, voted for the Connsly Harness anti strike bill as the Senate gave final congressional approval.
The Office of War Information said German espionage agents helped the Japanese plan the Pearl Harbor attack. Nazi agent Bernard Julius Otto Kuehn was tried in Honolulu, convicted February 21, 1942, and sentenced to death, later commuted to 50 years. His family has been interned. FBI supplied details.
Flight Officer Charles J. Harpool of Rogers Arkansas, copilot of the Flying Fortress Nora, who just completed his seventh raid over Nazi Europe, was treated for a head wound after falling from his bicycle near his quarters in England. He required three stitches to close the cut.
The committee heard that a great majority of fathers could be called into service, with no distinction between those with one child or more. McNutt outlined needs for 1,300,000 additional munitions workers plus 2,400,000 inducted by July 1, and a 1,200,000 net industrial gain. Farm labor needs remain at 12,000,000, with peak harvest labor expected to be met.
The Soviet air campaign enters its seventh week claiming 3,319 German planes cost. New heavy raids hit the Orel salient including Gomel Bryansk and Karachev. A ground thrust north and south of the salient around Mtsensk dislodges Germans from four towns and 300 enemy dead. Artillery pounded positions southwest of Orel and scouts penetrated lines, reporting 25 more killed.
The War Food Administration issued a Saturday order prioritizing military needs over civilians. Federally inspected plants must reserve 45 percent of beef output for Army Navy Marine Corps Coast Guard and military institutions, reducing civilian access to steaks roasts and other cuts.
A WPB official, speaking anonymously, warned that restoring cut off civilian goods to production before next year is hardly possible. He said further deep cuts in military allocations could prolong the war by about six months, despite pressure from lawmakers and retailers to restock. The WPB report notes civilians in 1942 enjoyed more goods and services than in prior years, rising 5.5 percent vs 1940 and 15 percent vs 1939.
Allied headquarters in North Africa disclosed that the only American Negro aerial unit in foreign service helped bomb Pantelleria. They flew P-40 Warhawks under the command of Lieut. Col. Benjamin O. Davis Jr., son of Brig. Gen. Benjamin O. Davis.
A wind and rain storm yesterday unroofed a three story building in Chillicothe and darkened part of the city as power lines were cut. Weather observer Mrs Alphonse Muller reported most streets flooded by the heaviest rainfall in Chillicothe in my knowledge.
The Airport Approval Board has authorized $600000 for Mansfield Ohio airport development. Rep McCregor Republican Ohio announced the action today.
A Big Four freight train caboose derailed from the Birket Bridge into the Stillwater River killing two named trainmen. Investigators probe cause as river traffic halts and railway officials review safety measures.
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