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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1940
Page
1
Ohio House fights over creating a defense commission as adjournment nears. Culp accuses the plan of administration backing while Republicans press for reconsideration amid cost focus and training schools.
London reports describe the largest air raid on Britain yet with a Nazi air fleet of more than 100 planes dropping hundreds of bombs on England Scotland and Wales. At least six civilians were killed and about sixty injured as the government confirms the extensive raid.
Britain’s food supply remains ample enough to last weeks says Food Minister Lord Woolton in a Lords session. Attacks across the country caused light damage with three bombers downed and several airmen killed or wounded. Royal Air Force bombers struck Ruhr and Rhineland targets as Parliament prepared a secret defense session and plans to curb Fifth Column activity.
MIDDLEPORT Staff Specialy Charles Frankenburg taken to Holzer Hospital last night after examination by a local physician who said he suffered a stroke of paralysis. Mr Frank Geeie, alone in his cement house on Broadway, was not seen yesterday by neighbors who forced entry finding him semi conscious. He has no relatives.
Vinton County will host its first fair since 1996 from September 11 to 14, announced Jack Jones secretary of the Vinton County Agriculture Society. The 1940 fair ends a long dispute with county commissioners over funding, with the board having pursued past appeals after initial refusals to pay shares.
The Senate rejected administration pleas for a non controversial revenue bill and approved defense tax measures. It backed lower income tax exemptions and excise tax boosts passed by the House to raise about 1.007 billion dollars. An excess profits tax on corporations could yield between 400 and 900 million dollars, with Senator Connally estimating about 8 billion dollars annually from individuals.
Unionist leader calls for a drive against fifth columnists as Senate debates tax reforms. He cites adding 1 percent to corporation taxes and boosting income taxes to fund national defense, while proposing higher rates for incomes over 100000. The talk comes amid tension over debt limits and defense bond funding.
Bow, a former Ohio Assistant Attorney General, notes that an overwhelming majority of American workers are not represented by the spokesmen of the major national labor groups.
In New Orleans Ana Morano marries Mildred Clausen after Emile J. Morano Jr. retrieves a duplicate license from city hall. The ceremony proceeds with bride and groom amid delays and onlookers. Separately, Vermont Senator Ernest Willard Gibson dies at 67 in Washington.
Washington reports the Pan American conference may discuss U S air bases in Latin America as a key topic. The debate touches on navy contracts, defense limits, and potential impacts of a broader hemisphere security agreement.
L. W. Wallace, chair of the ASME research committee, told Milwaukee audience that 80,000 to 100,000 mile tires, low-cost plastic bathtubs, and paper tramine for the pulp mill are just around the corner, seven years after planting.
The State Supreme Court agreed to hear petitions on the Bank Night issue and related neutrality demands. GOP platform framers pressed for strict maintenance of neutrality while others warned against measures that could pull the nation into conflict. A Pennsylvania committee heard diverse views on compulsory national service and aid to Allies, with critics labeling proposals as dangerous or foolish.
A fragment notes Marshal Henri Petain at 84 named premier of France, with a sister-in-law Marie Terese Petain from El Paso Texas asserting age concerns about his suitability for the post.
Preliminary figures released by county supervisor Agnes King show Athens population at 424 in the last decade, reflecting a rise from 6,418 in 1920 and 6,263 in 1910. Chamber of Commerce secretary CM Gil notes the count omits Athens University students and outlying areas, with many workers living outside the city but commuting in.
German radio reports conflict over France continuing to fight as Hitler and Mussolini terms dictate surrender. Lyon fallen, 200,000 prisoners captured, 50,000 surrendered to Switzerland. French government members allegedly mulling flight to Algiers, while French forces clash toward North Africa and the Middle Loire. Britain warned England is next as German forces push toward Bordeaux and the Loire line.
Reported from Berlin that Germany supports the United States note invoking the Monroe Doctrine, affirming no change of territory in the Americas by non American sovereignty. Russia moves troops to the Swiss border and East Prussia as German and Allied war dynamics shift. Premier Petain pleads for armistice citing material and manpower shortages, recalling World War I dynamics and the cost of victory.
Penfield Seiberling of Seiberling Rubber Co Akron warned that crude rubber could become a tool of economic retaliation by Germany for Allied support. He stated Britain and France must control seas or rubber prices to U.S. manufacturers could rise up to tenfold.
Senator Taft of Ohio will speak tonight on The Failure that immigration restrictions be relaxed to permit European men and women of high idealism and their families to find refuge in this country. The address is broadcast across the Mutual Network at 10 15 to 10 30 EST from President Roosevelt's headquarters and features 32 Ohio Wesleyan University faculty petitioners.
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