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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1943
Page
3
The Ways and Means Committee backed a 20 percent wage withholding measure to start July 1. The plan would allow pay-asyou-go option for two years’ obligations settled in one year. Supporters expect floor passage next week as debate looms.
Washington report notes AFL President William Green derides the Austin-Wadsworth labor draft bill as involuntary servitude and cites delays from government polls rather than worker reluctance. Bankhead farm draft vote slated. mobile emergency work corps favored as a substitute. Also covered are salary caps debates, national debt limit rises, a freeze on large transportation crews, and cautious moves on postwar world organization plans amid fear of hampering unity.
Cleveland report states Stuart Burther a commercial representative in the Regional War Production and Salvage Division had his A ration book suspended 30 days and his C ration book revoked 15 days after speeding to 57 miles an hour. Penalty ordered by Fred G. Glover Jr regional OPA hearing commissioner.
London report says over a million Polish workers were sent to Germany to work in factories. Dispatch from Warsaw cited trains leaving Krakow with workers for German production sites.
A strong wind yesterday on the East Side of Columbus tore a section of the roof and crushed a wall of a three story brick building. A 50 foot square piece of newer roofing was blown off. Authorities investigated structural damage and potential injuries.
President Roosevelt said the aim is to win the war first and work toward general objectives later. He indicated opposition to detailed postwar constitutional work and suggested no Senate pronouncement beyond a general willingness to cooperate with the United Nations. He declined to comment on Senator Ball's resolution for an international police force.
New York John L. Lewis attacks the National Resources Planning Board proposal to expand social security as Utopia. He notes United Mine Workers wage raise plans and warns 450,000 miners may strike by March 31 if demands are unmet. He calls the plan impractical and urges immediate wage increases.
Conscientious objectors Louis Lock and Bol ton David Kester served sentences for violating a blackout at Cleveland State Hospital. Lock, 27, waved a flashlight during the blackout and received 90 days in jail and a $50 fine. Kester, 30, found guilty as an abettor, got 30 days and a $25 fine.
Toledo reports the Willys-Overland Company is mass producing an amphibian jeep trailer. It is designed to carry a quarter ton load on both land and sea, showcasing dual terrain capability.
The Office of Price Administration begins conferences on hog price ceilings. Administrator Prentiss M. Brown outlines ceilings as a probability. J. K. Galbraith and Charles M. Elkinton will meet producers this afternoon, with farm belt congressmen invited. Potential ceilings cited range from $13.50 to $15 per hundredweight.
Manpower Chief Paul V. McNutt announced to Congress that government funds and the school system retrained 1,516,043 men and women in six months for war work. He added that about a half million more are finishing courses to qualify for technical line jobs on planes tanks ships and related war production.
The Tire rationing plan expands access for motorists with gasoline mileage allowances. Grade II tires become available April 1 to drivers exceeding 240 miles a month, covering most B C and T card holders. A limited number of Grade 1 tires will go to those with 560 miles or more per month.
Rubber Administrator William Jeffers announced higher quotas for Grade I tires from 321,827 in March to 540,000 in April and Grade II tires from 253,000 to 540,000, with truck tires rising from 299,000 to 360,000. A new item adds 17 inch rim tires to the obsolete list accessible to anyone with a B or better book, though A book holders may also obtain them. All tires require local ration board certificates.
The Kansas House approved a bill to require licensing of labor-union agents, financial and salary reports, and disclosures of dues and assessments. It would ban sit-down strikes and jurisdictional disputes, with the Senate to concur for final passage.
British headquarters report 30 hours of fighting along the Mayu River 12 miles north of Rathedaung as American fliers bomb railway bridges highways and truck convoys. U S Tenth Air Force says planes hit Japanese supply lines in wide attacks with no losses. In the Southwest Pacific MacArthur bombers attack Dobo and ships near Australia while raids set fires at Salamaua New Guinea.
Washington reports a congressional farm bloc ready to authorize selling 100 million bushels of reserve wheat for livestock feed at below parity prices. Edward A. O Neal of the American Farm Bureau Federation urged passage of the bill, noting the need to meet feed shortages and compromise with administration. In the Corn Belt, the feed wheat price would align with local corn parity, above the price of corn.
In Dublin on Saint Patrick's Day the mood was austere with no public demonstrations or parades. The neutral nation faced wartime shortages and hardship. many stayed home or wandered streets while football matches drew small crowds and pubs remained closed.
In Times Square a celebration was interrupted when a mounted patrolman arrested 19 year old John Cammarota for rolling a beer barrel at a crowd. He produced a notice of his Army induction dated that morning and Magistrate Edmund L. Palmieri suspended sentence.
Ohio authorities permit Arthur Opperman a 42 year old welder who escaped London Prison Farm in 1924 to keep his position at a Fort Lauderdale war plant but require him to return to Columbus to clear his case. Warden Frank D. Henderson says Ohio will not extradite him.
MILWAUKEE Wis 4 Pren tiss M Brown OPA administrator told a consumers conference plans were made to appoint an uncompensated price panel to each rationing board. The panel will disseminate information to storekeepers and consumers and help administer new price control regulations.
Japan air power threatens western Australia as maps show bases and symbols. Darwin bears heavy bombing while MacArthur’s airmen attack Japanese ships and installations in the region.
War Production Board officials and a federal conciliator renewed efforts to restore full production at the Timken Roller-Bearing Co. plant in Canton as first shift workers returned. A. T. Pinkney said the strike has become a national issue and the War Labor Board is being informed of every detail. The company telegram claimed machining operations are idle due to a strike protesting the promotion of Negro workers.
The Farm Security Administration reported today that 400 farm laborers, mainly from Kentucky hill country, were placed on Ohio farms after training programs at Ohio State University and Rio Grande College.
Columbus Welfare Director Charles L. Sherwood announced on St Patrick's Day that Ohio institutions will not pay a 1941 excess wheat penalty totaling 3890 dollars. Penalties included London Prison Farm 1872 dollars and Dayton 131 dollars with yields of 10655, 4182, 1634, and 3363 bushels respectively. The Agriculture Department had abandoned the penalty, and Sherwood said institution raised wheat is converted for in state use. He referred the notices to the attorney general for an opinion.
The War Man power Commission authorized removing Akron from critical labor area status while the 48 hour week remains in effect. Regional WMC director Robert C. Goodwin cited labor supply improvements from the 48 hour week, and area director Harry C. Markle said Akron temporarily has a labor surplus.
Berlin papers publish pictures of Adolf Hitler near the front in Russia, broadcast by DNB and interpreted in London as a counter to abroad reports that he is ill insane or displaced as supreme German commander. Lake Erie's 1943 fishing season opens amid meat scarcity concerns due to labor shortages.
Soviet forces report sweeping advances toward Smolensk as they claim victory in a massive tank battle near Kharkov and retake 32 towns and villages on the central front. Donets sector battles churn, with 200 Nazis reported killed in a village strike.
The French National Committee said Gen. Charles De Gaulle would leave for Algiers to confer with Gen. Henri Giraud on uniting all French fighters against the Axis. Elsewhere heavy fighting raged around Izyum and the Donets as a northern Russian offensive pressured the German front from Leningrad to the Sea of Azov.
War atmosphere tightens as Allied plans near eruption in Tunisia. Eisenhower reports heavy air assaults on Rommel’s Mareth Line while British forces push forward in the Medenine sector. In France French patriots resist German police efforts in the mountains with aid from some insurgent groups near Mont Blanc.
A three member Ohio Veterans Commission to aid in rehabilitation and pensioning of war veterans is proposed by the Joint Veterans Commission of Cuyahoga County. John H. Price, president, and Lee O. Kurfis, legislative chairman, plan to go to Columbus early next week to push introduction of the bill.
Cleveland IRS official Frank F. Gentsch announced an investigation into 25000 persons who failed to pay at least one fourth of their 1942 income taxes when filing returns. He warned that willful evasion would be prosecuted.
Navy Secretary Knox told a senate committee that production of battleships carriers cruisers and destroyers is ahead of schedule with some vessels coming on line a year early. He noted escort craft lag due to a landing craft program and cited 1942 shipyard losses from strikes and high absenteeism.
A 217 year old Pike County man was arrested on a federal warrant charging he caused his 14 year old brother to substitute in a draft call. James Roy Owens was held after Ellis Owens, who had been drafted in Huntington West Virginia, went AWOL 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 decisions were made at a conference chaired by Admiral Ernest J. King.
The Most Reverend Arthur Cardinal Hinsley archbishop of Westminster and primate of the Roman Catholic Church in Great Britain died this morning at age 77. He was a principal religious leader and outspoken fighter against Fascism and Communism in Britain. In other news Tass from Cairo reports Athens workers went on general strike protesting workers sent to Germany.
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