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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1943
Page
1
The Ways and Means Committee approved a 20 percent wage withholding levy effective July 1 and made pay as you go optional for those who settle two years’ taxes in one year. Backers of the Ruml plan voiced confidence of House passage when the measure reaches the floor for debate likely next Monday.
Labor factions clash over the Austin-Wadsworth plan to draft civilians, labeled free vs slave labor by AFL President William Green who calls it involuntary servitude. Senate action looms on the Bankhead bill to halt farm-worker drafting, with a mobile emergency corps and salary limits up for vote. The White House seeks a higher debt limit while freezing nine or more passenger vehicles. foreign relations panel weighs postwar economic talks amid fears of harming allied relations.
Cleveland report says Stuart Burther, a regional salvage division official, lost his gasoline ration book for 30 days and his C book for 15 days after allegedly driving 57 mph. The penalties were ordered by Fred G. Glover Jr., regional OPA hearing commissioner.
London reports a Rome Radio broadcast quoting Warsaw dispatch that over a million Polish workers were moved to Germany for labor with trains filled from Krakow leaving yesterday. The claim notes widespread conscription into work benches across German sites.
Strong gusts yesterday lifted a section of the roof and crumpled a wall of a three story brick structure on Columbus East Side. The same wind peeled away a 50 foot square of copper roofing from the new federal building.
President Roosevelt signaled opposition to detailing postwar international policy now. He urged victory in the war first and general objectives afterward. He suggested no Senate pronouncement beyond willingness to cooperate with other United Nations and avoided direct comment on Senator Ball’s international police force proposal.
John L. Lewis attacks the National Resources Planning Board proposal as utopian and urges quicker wage gains for Appalachian miners. He cites UMW wage demands totaling a basic two dollar daily increase and warns if unmet by March 31 miners may strike.
Cleveland report says conscientious objectors Louis Lock a 27 year old Wisconsin school teacher and Bol ton David Kester a 30 year old OSU graduate are in jail serving sentences for violating a blackout at Cleveland State Hospital where they worked Lock pleaded guilty to waving a flashlight during the blackout and received 90 days and a $50 fine Kester found guilty as an abettor drew 30 days and a $25 fine
Toledo reports the Willys-Overland Company is mass producing an amphibian jeep trailer designed to carry a quarter ton on land and sea, reflecting an expansion of military supply capabilities.
The Office of Price Administration begins conferences today on hog price ceilings. Administrator Prentiss M Brown outlines ceilings as a probability. Deputy J K Galbraith and price executive Charles M Elkinton will meet producers this afternoon with invited farm belt lawmakers to discuss figures from 13.50 to 15 per hundredweight.
In six months, manpower chief Paul V. McNutt said government funds and the school system retrained 1,516,043 men and women for war work. An additional half million are finishing courses to prepare for technical assembly line jobs in planes tanks ships and other war equipment.
Washington announces relaxed tire rationing. Grade II tires become available April 1 to motorists with gasoline mileage allowances over 240 miles monthly, covering most B C and T card holders. A limited number of Grade I tires will go to those with 560 miles or more, while quotas for Grade I and truck tires are increased. A 17 inch rim tire is added to the obsolete list, available to eligible readers with local board certification.
Topeka, Kas. The Kansas House approved a bill to license labor union agents and require unions to file financial and salary reports. It would bar sit down strikes and jurisdictional disputes with final passage due for today and Senate concurrence needed on amendments.
British headquarters report 30 hours of fighting along the Mayu River 12 miles north of Rathedaung as American fliers strike Japanese railways highways and convoys. U S Tenth Air Force says planes hit supply lines in widespread attacks while MacArthur's raids hit Dobo and Salamaua targets in New Guinea with ships sunk and fires seen from 80 miles away.
A congressional farm bloc moves to authorize selling 100 million bushels of reserve wheat for livestock feed at prices below parity. Edward A. O Nea l of the American Farm Bureau Federation cites feed shortages and says the Senate is urged to pass a bill allowing sales beneath corn parity. In the Corn Belt the feed price would align with local corn parity.
Dublin reports an austere Saint Patrick’s Day with no political demonstrations or rallies. The neutral nation stays home or attends football matches as shortages affect pubs and daily life. No parades or widespread celebrations noted.
In Times Square a crowd gathered for a party when John Cammarota age 19 rolled a barrel of beer. A mounted patrolman arrested him and brought him before Magistrate Edmund L. Palmieri. Cammarota presented a slip announcing his Army induction the next morning and the sentence was suspended.
Ohio authorities allowed Arthur Opperman a 42 year old fugitive who escaped London Prison Farm in 1924 to keep his welding job at a Fort Lauderdale war plant but urged his return to Columbus to clear his case. Warden Frank D. Henderson said the state would not extradite him. He served six months of a one to 20 year sentence for forgery.
Milwaukee officials and OPA administrator Pren tiss M. Brown announced plans to appoint uncompensated price panels to each rationing board. The panels will disseminate information to storekeepers and consumers and help administer new price control regulations.
War Production Board and a federal conciliator renewed talks at the Timken Roller-Bearing Co plant in Canton as first shift workers return. Conciliator A T Pinkney said the strike has become a national issue and that the War Labor Board in Washington is being updated with every detail. A company telegram claims machining is idle due to protests against the promotion of Negro workers.
The Farm Security Administration reported today that 400 farm laborers from Kentucky hill country have been placed on Ohio farms after training programs at Ohio State University and Rio Grande College.
The map signs depict Japanese forces massing near western Australia with Darwin heavily bombed. Allied air units under MacArthur strike Japanese ships and bases in the region, signaling heightened danger for the Australian front.
Welfare Director Charles L. Sherwood declared, on St. Patrick's Day, that Ohio institutions will not pay $3890 in penalties imposed by the United States for excess 1941 wheat. Penalties totaled 1872 at London Prison Farm, 101714? (text unclear) at Apple Creek, 131 at Dayton, and 868 at Grafton Prison Farm. He says the wheat is used for institutional needs and not sold, and sent the notices to the attorney general for action.
The War Manpower Commission reclassified Akron as no longer a critical labor area but kept the 48 hour week in effect. Regional director Robert C. Goodwin cited improved labor supply from the 48 hour week, while area director Harry C. Markle noted a temporary labor surplus in Akron.
Berlin newspapers published pictures of Adolf Hitler near front lines in Russia as reported by DNB from a Berlin broadcast. The AP notes the report seems aimed at countering rumors that Hitler is ill insane or displaced as supreme German commander. Lake Erie fishing season 1943 opens with uncertain prospects due to labor shortages and meat scarcity pressures.
Soviet headquarters reported a major advance as Red armies swept into more than 32 towns and villages on the central front toward Smolensk. Tank forces in the Donets basin destroyed German units and captured an enemy village, while northern columns battered defenses near the upper Dnieper and the Staraya Russia area.
The French National Committee said Gen Charles De Gaulle would soon depart for Algiers to meet Gen Henri Giraud on forming a united front of French fighters against the Axis. In Ukraine heavy fighting continued below Kharkov as Izyum engaged near the Donets, while a rapid Soviet northward push threatened the central German line from Leningrad to the Sea of Azov.
Reports from London and Eisenhower’s headquarters describe intense Allied activity around the Mareth Line and southern Tunisian front as Rommel’s forces pull back along suspected stronger lines. French resistance in the Alps persists with guerrilla bands and mass movements near Mont Blanc, while assessments suggest a climactic push could be imminent.
A bill drafted by the Joint Veterans Commission of Cuyahoga County seeks a three man Ohio Veterans Commission to aid in veterans rehabilitation and pensioning. John H. Price as president and Lee O. Kurfis as legislative chairman said they would travel to Columbus early next week to push for introduction of the measure.
Cleveland internal revenue collector Frank F. Gentsch ordered an investigation into 25 000 persons who failed to pay at least one fourth of their 1942 income taxes when filing returns. He said willful evasion would be prosecuted.
Washington Navy Secretary Knox tells a senate committee that production of battleships carriers cruisers and destroyers is ahead of schedule with several vessels entering commission a year early. He cites a $4.3 billion naval appropriation and notes escort craft delays from landing craft programs.
A 21 year old Pike County man is held on a federal warrant for using his 14 year old brother as a draft substitute. Ellis Owens was inducted in Huntington West Virginia and later went AWOL after being sent to New Orleans. James Roy Owens was arrested after Ellis was captured in New Orleans.
Washington reports that American British and Canadian high commands reached complete agreement on methods to defeat Axis submarines in the Atlantic. The conference was chaired by Admiral Ernest J. King, commander in chief of the U S fleet.
The Most Reverend Arthur Cardinal Hinsley archbishop of Westminster and primate of the Roman Catholic Church in Great Britain died this morning at age 0. He was a noted opponent of Fascism and Communism and a vocal figure in postwar British religious politics.
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