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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1943
Page
1
A short, unclear notice mentions Duckworth and a Florida club honoring a person connected to OSPITAI efforts. Details are unreadable, but the event suggests recognition by a local organization in Florida.
The Associated Press reports a new 2,500 mile round trip shuttle route was used by German Zeppelins, bombing Friedrichshafen, then heading to Africa and back via Spezia. The British Air Ministry announced the operation occurred yesterday and again early today.
London reports mass shelter use as Allied bombers strike Italy and Germany. RAF Lancasters suffer no losses while targeting La Spezia and Catania, with attacks on Comiso Olbia and other Italian outposts. German raids on Hull inflict heavy damage. urban fires rage until dawn. RAF daylight raids resume toward Nazi France and Belgium, with Ruhr and Belgorod-focused actions and claims of hundreds of thousands homeless.
Cleveland area wartime official Dr. William P. Edmunds proposes free beer and pretzels at foundries and smelters to reduce absenteeism and turnover. He argues mid shift refreshments boost morale and counter fatigue from heat and perspiration.
Daytona Beach restaurant expands menu with alligator steaks as a supplement to beet and pork dishes. Local diners sample the venture as part of an adventurous regional cuisine trend.
The Office of Price Administration announces the next two coffee rations will be one pound for three weeks, the most liberal allowance since rationing began. Current ration is one pound for four weeks and stamps 21 through 24 define the July to August validity, with stocks and imports signaling a stable supply.
In Pittsburgh the Duquesne Club hosted a Republican dinner for about 150 guests including Harris Spangler. Senator Guffey charged the event was an 8 000 plate feast. Organizers say the cost was 3 50 per plate as they raise funds for 1944 campaign efforts.
West Virginia Governor Matthew M Neely urged states and municipalities to launch labor employing public improvement programs to avoid a repeat of postwar unemployment. He warned private industry and federal action cannot absorb all workers and called for state sponsored projects to provide jobs for veterans and others.
Detroit dispatch reports Ford Motor River Rouge plant ran with 1500 foremen absent after union head says workers quit over the company’s refusal to rehire certain strikers from last weekend. The stoppage revives a dispute over pay interpretation in the foremen’s category.
Federal Works Administrator Philip B. Fleming told a House subcommittee that birth control had been suggested to ease Puerto Rico economic and employment issues but he doubted it would work there. The panel approved a $7 million relief allotment for Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands through November 39, funding continued work relief.
House Agriculture Committee backs a bill to place all wartime food production, distribution, pricing, and rationing under a single war food administrator. The move aims to abolish OPA powers, with President Roosevelt wary, while weather conditions brighten 1943 crop prospects and support for the plan grows. Army casualties total 63 958 since the war began, with 7 528 killed or died of wounds, 17 128 wounded, 22 687 missing, and 16 615 prisoners reported.
Columbus director Don Fisher announced the June 28 to July 24 ration would allow one quart one fifth or two pints per card holder. The same allotment as the prior four weeks applies. Purchases may occur at any state store while registration remains under zone rules. He noted liquor supply was holding up well.
Long Beach California reports P Rudy Vallee the radio and film singer and conductor of the Eleventh Naval District coast guard band has been promoted from chief petty officer to lieutenant in a naval ceremony.
U S Liberators flying 2000 miles round trip scored a direct hit on a cruiser at Macassar in Dutch Celebes with 38 tons of bombs. One bomber was lost when a Japanese fighter collided with its wing. Indonesian front reports say Australian jungle troops repulsed a third Japanese attempt near Mubo 12 miles from Salamaua with 64 killed or wounded.
Ned Joseph Wolfe 57 former Athens resident died at Mayo Clinic Rochester Minn after a major operation. He previously ran Wolfe Brothers Feed Store and later worked in real estate in Ft Lauderdale Florida. He leaves wife Florence Sawyer a son William in the Navy and daughter Mrs Alice Minton. Funeral plans pending.
Circulation losses from price increases generally recover within months say ICMA official Jack Kenny of Hearst Newspapers. A survey of 20 of 271 papers found six failing to regain losses, with rest likely to recover later this year.
Central News Agency dispatch reports more than 1,000 Japanese troops drowned June 1 when a large enemy warship struck a mine in the Yangtze River near Tunglieu Anhwei Province. The sinking was caused by a Chinese mine, according to the report.
The War Manpower Commission directed Ohio offices of the U S Employment Service to speed worker placement for war production. Regional director Robert C. Goodwin said forms would be simplified and aptitude testing limited to specific jobs with immediate referrals and minimal registration time.
Senator Robert A Taft a Republican from Ohio says he would oppose raising the draft age to meet strike concerns He argues the plan would affect millions and questions whether it would boost coal production and be effective in curbing strikes.
British bombers unloaded more than 15 000 tons of bombs on Germany in May to June, with two thirds hitting Ruhr industrial centers Dortmund Essen Wuppertal Bochum Oberhausen Krefeld Mulheim. American aircraft joined June 22 striking the Hull synthetic rubber plant as Goebbels’s Ruhr fate is cited.
Amerigo Antonelli, 52, president of Antonelli Fireworks Co. in Spencerport, N Y, and five other firm executives are under FBI arrest on sabotage charges in the manufacture of aerial bombs and hand grenades for the U S A naturalized Italian whose father was the Royal Pyrotechnician to the King of Italy is shown holding a large Roman candle a peacetime product of the firm.
Detroit riots raise death toll to 31 with 700 injured as authorities vow proportionate punishment. In Washington, Congressman Dies says evidence shows Japanese agents used existing groups to inflame racial prejudice to hinder production and morale. He plans expanded hearings next week.
German overseas radio quoted Reuters reports that Italians had evacuated Castelrosso the easternmost island of the Italian dominated Dodecanese. British observers said the island was small and likely garrisoned by only a few hundred soldiers in the Aegean region near Turkey.
Gladys Humanski, 24, mother of five, pleaded guilty to neglect for hiding her newborn son in a dresser drawer for four weeks to keep the child from her husband. Judge Henry F Beckenbaugh sentenced her to six months in jail after testimony about lack of medical care for the infant.
Columbus report shows Ohio housewives gathered a record amount of waste fats in May for war use but remains more than 50 percent short of the statewide target. Robert O. Weible, former executive state secretary for the War Production Board’s general salvage Branch, announced the figure.
Edward A. Lawler, assistant weather bureau meteorologist, was introduced as the new flood forecaster for Cincinnati and the upper Ohio River Valley.
Secretary Ickes declares continued government custody of coal mines for a considerable period and calls 29 mine owners to discuss labor disputes. He seeks active supervision while urging return of United Mine Workers to work without a new deadline. The plan accompanies talks on broader anti-strike measures and wartime labor policy.
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