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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1945
Page
18
Grain and produce markets show mixed grades across Cincinnati and Chicago listings. Reports detail wholesale grades, specific lots, broilers, breads, and various commodity prices, with live stock sections noting hogs, cattle, calves, and sheep trading with steady to firm tones.
Washington reports United States submarines have sunk 11 enemy ships in far eastern waters, including two high speed patrol vessels. The navy notes total Japanese losses reached 155 ships as a result of submarine actions.
In a Printers Ink survey of 1009 service men, 60 percent want to return to their old jobs after the War. Overall 52.2 percent of those in prewar work earned $41 a week or more, while 3.6 percent earned under $20 weekly.
General H. H. Arnold head of the U S Army Air Forces told reporters that by the end of 1946 there would be nothing left of Japan to bomb. He stated a plan to drop three times as many bombs on Japan over 18 months and announced more B-29s will join the raids from the Marianas.
Rep Willis J Cory of Seneca County leads rural House members in a movement to boost sales tax revenue for countryside counties. They seek a compromise between two revenue bills: one preserving 212 million dollars annually for local governments, the other proposing 18 million dollars.
LAKE GARDA Italy a committee of three officers has organized a replacement plan for Japanese American soldiers of the U S 44th Infantry returning from Italy and France. Each departing Nisei soldier will take the names of men already contacted in America to help locate housing and work in his chosen place and industry.
New York report highlights the village of Dola Ohio population 175 located 22 miles east of Lima as the central point of the nations steel industry. The Americans Iron and Steel Institute notes Lenapite as the center of gravity with Mansfield nearest furnaces 60 miles east and the geographic center shifting about 66 miles since 1940.
Mrs. Helen Robinson, 49, mother of two, is charged with first degree murder in the fatal shooting of Albert Riester, 41, a painter, found dead in her Mansfield apartment. Riester was living there while on parole from Ohio Penitentiary. Robinson pleaded innocent at the initial hearing. The report also notes Robinson's prior divorce from Edward Robinson, a Cleveland coast guardsman. An unrelated notice states Foster Cornwell of Athens is appointed Administrator of the Estate of Aaram Easter, deceased, with creditors urged to file claims within four months.
The Senate yesterday completed passage of a five member State Aviation Board to coordinate aviation development with federal agencies and regulations. Arthur Stuart of Albany Ohio named executor of Amy Boye Sheet late of Albany Athens County. Creditors must file their claims within four months or be barred. The State Highway Patrol is authorized to increase its personnel from 300 to 400 members.
Gerard Foley of Batelle Memorial Institute disclosed an electrical micrometer capable of detecting movement as small as one tenth of a millionth of an inch. He told the Chicago section of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers that the device had already been used in important war investigations.
Probate judge announces T H Williams of Nelsonville Ohio appointed administrator of the Carson Boudoint estate. Creditors must file claims within four weeks dated May 29 4845. The Athens County Common Pleas action lists receivership of the Burgess partnership with claims to be verified and filed with receiver G Worstelt by June 18 1945.
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