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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1943
Page
1
The House Republican steering committee outlined plans to back the Ruml plan to ease a year’s income tax and shift 44 million taxpayers to a pay as you go system.
The House approved extending lend lease for another year and sent the measure to the Senate along with a report that aid to Axis fighters opponents totals 9.632 billion dollars. The report credits 1.977 billion in goods transferred in the quarter ending March. Leaders discuss tax plans and broader wartime measures as Congress aims to act this week.
Cleveland AP reports a regional defense transportation center will enforce a ban starting March 15 on special buses used for war effort travel to race tracks and athletic contests, affecting transportation to events nationwide.
Secretary Perkins told labor officials and representatives that at least 2 750 000 additional women are needed in the U S labor force this year. The appeal, made at a conference on women in war and industry, targeted homemakers entering wartime work.
Price Administrator Prentiss Brown announced coffee rations will rise to one pound per person for five weeks starting March 22. The current ration is one pound every six weeks and stamp No 26 will be valid through April 25. Brown cited higher February imports and improved inventories as the reason for the 16 percent increase and noted government cooperation in easing rationing.
Allied planes struck Japan's supply lines earning official credit for five more merchant ships in the Southwest Pacific. In Burma the RAF pressed the campaign on invasion forces. MacArthur's HQ said United Nations fliers north of Australia bombed three vessels in the Celebes and Dutch East Indies, including a 7,000-ton ship that burned fiercely and was probably a total loss. Two other vessels were hit off New Guinea with near misses and a 5,000-tonner damaged.
In Wellston the Frick Gallagher Manufacturing Co. strike ended after the firm rehired a discharged worker. President Joseph Gallagher said the plant, engaged in war production, closed Monday as workers protested the firing. The firm holds a contract with the CIO United Steel Workers.
The House appropriations committee recommended a $26,000,000 appropriation to recruit and place farm workers in needed regions. It rejected the agriculture department request for $65,075,000 for a new program expected to involve about 3,500,000 workers, including foreigners, women and youths.
Moscow radio and papers informed Russians today that they had not been told the complete story of U S aid to the Soviet Union. The report, broadcast and printed with a New York dateline credited to Tass, first informed the public on the controversy. The Russian home radio aired it twice, and newspapers featured it on back pages in the foreign dispatch section.
Miss Marcia Henry 19 of Lisbon Ohio collapsed and died in a Miami University classroom while a junior in the School of Education. Dr John D Schonwald health director cited coronary occlusion as the cause.
Washington reports show male Americans face low odds of passing Army physicals at various ages with 3 of 20 at 45, 6 of 20 at 36, 14 of 20 at 21, and 15 of 20 at 18 19. Col. Leonard G. Rountree criticizes high health standards while noting 1,000,000 of 2,000,000 registrants were rejected for defects. He urges prehabilitation for inductees as a remedy.
Congress signals intent to ignore executive postwar planning and craft its own economic transition. A nine member planning panel may be formed with a $50,000 staff. a National Resources Planning Board report is to be studied. Major points urge phased demobilization, gradual easing of controls, private enterprise partnership, regional railroad consolidation, and postwar tax conversion provisions.
Charles Taft testified before a congressional committee about urgent needs for nursery schools and after school care. He argued married women are more stable than single workers and that war plants rely on women with children. He warned 3-A draft bring more employed wives whose Army husbands will limit allowances.
Columbus urges all physically able old age assistance recipients in Ohio to aid in harvesting unharvested corn and crops. Karl R Rabb, head of Aid for the Aged, says this casual employment will not reduce monthly grants and county offices have been instructed accordingly.
Basil D. Izzi, a Navy gunner from South Bane Mass, tells how he and two shipmates drifted 83 days on a life raft after their torpedoed ship sank in the South Atlantic. Rain and scavenged food sustains them as two others aboard perish.
The Senate approved a bill continuing Ohio's annual subsidy to local governments at 12 million dollars per year and sent it to the House. The chamber also approved a separate measure allowing armed forces members to drive without a new license if they already held one before entering service.
The Navy reports a 4 inch United States merchant vessel was torpedoed and sunk by an enemy submarine late in February in the mid Atlantic.
Lieut. Gen. George C. Kenney commander of the Allied Air Forces in the southwest Pacific arrives in Washington at the head of a seven officer mission.
Gov. John W. Bricker will present a plan to chief executives of 11 midwestern states in Des Moines to ease farm labor and machinery shortages. It urges cutting federal red tape to speed access to equipment and fertilizer, with a focus on spring planting. The Ohio War Agricultural Committee says 11,000 Ohio farms may be abandoned this year and shows 36 percent less hired labor and 24 percent less family help than last year.
Logan resident David Lynn age eighty died last night at Cherrington Hospital from burns suffered when a pan of grease on a cook stove ignited a fire at his home on Main Street Monday. Surviving is his son David B. Lynn of Wabash Indiana.
An unconfirmed report claimed the last RAF raid on Berlin struck the Reich Air Ministry, headquarters of Goering, reiterated in the House of Commons by Air Minister Archibald Sinclair.
Washington. Price Administrator Prentiss M. Brown said he will not tolerate home searches for OPA violations except in the most flagrant cases. He cited racketeers posing as officials attempting to seize canned foods and said warrants must be obtained.
Washington reports Maj. Gen. Lev in Campbell stated that the 60 ton German tanks will disappear from battlefields before war’s end. He argued firepower, not bulk, tests tanks and noted four American mobile field guns have already pierced German armor in Tunisia.
State Treasurer Don Ebright reports in Columbus that women's apparel purchases jumped 105.7 percent, men's clothing 50.2 percent, and shoes 64.3 percent from the 1942 week. Total sales tax collections reached 292,936 dollars, up 10,063 from a year earlier.
Mr W N Bert Russell 76 longtime Athens City Council member and businessman died at his home 104 W Union St after a five day illness He served 20 years on council never missing a meeting He built the Russell House hotel and ran a grocery store He leaves wife Mary Luman Russell and son Clifford Funeral services Friday at 2 30 E W T at Dowler and Ferguson Funeral Home with burial in the W Union Street Cemetery
The Fighting French radio at Brazzaville reports Pierre Laval is considering closing French universities so students can be sent to Germany to work in Nazi war industries. Widespread France unrest follows efforts to round up 400,000 workers Laval promised Germany.
In Chicago a packing trade source said farmers may boost hog sales to secure current prices, as government plans reportedly consider setting price maximums. The anticipated ceilings could push producers to sell more hogs to capitalize on higher market levels.
London AP says the RAF, dropping more than 10 000 tons monthly, wrecked over 2000 German factories and left more than one million Germans homeless. Sir Archibald Sinclair cited Essen raids on March 5 6 and said Ruhr steel capacity was cut by 1 250 000 tons.
Secretary of War Stimson said Fighting French troops linked with other French legions in a flank around the Mareth Line in Tunisia, sealing a trap on 250,000 Axis troops under Rommel. Gen. Le Clerc's columns had driven across the desert from Lake Chad and closed the ring by linking with Gen. Giraud's forces.
Secretary Stimson said Allies in Tunisia had the better of fighting last week but losses on both sides were substantial. He cited 59 killed, 176 wounded, and 2,007 missing in the Feb 14 20 period, most missing likely prisoners.
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