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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1943
Page
1
Washington AP reports new coupon values allow up to 2 1 2 pounds of steak or 3 1 5 pounds of hamburger per person each week. Most will buy less to save points for butter lard cheese or canned fish. The plan allocates 16 points weekly at about 8 points per pound for all foods. A typical family may buy two pounds meat and a quarter pound each of butter and cheese.
The official table of consumer point values for meats fats fish and cheese becomes effective March 29 and appears on Page 2. OPA says rations are relatively more liberal for processed foods but impact varies by family. By Monday most unrationed foods will be milk bread cereals preserves and fresh produce.
A group of 30 medical and public health authorities conclude there is no evidence that health of people in rationed areas has suffered due to fuel oil rationing. They emphasize careful use and monitor potential impacts.
Allied HQ reports a dawn air strike on three Rabaul airdromes in New Britain. Over 250 Japanese fighters and bombers were hit by 54 tons of bombs and incendiaries in a one and a half hour raid. Gasmata Airdrome also attacked. no Allied losses.
An am munition detonation at the Ravenna ordnance depot killed an undetermined number of leading crew. Col. Raymond A. Brown said two bodies recovered, dead total likely under a dozen. Explosion at noon eastern time felt in Youngstown and nearby Northeastern Ohio towns with a large smoke cloud.
President Philip Murray and Socialist Norman Thomas oppose the civilian draft bill. Thomas calls it an extreme assertion of totalitarian power. Murray tells the senate wartime committee CIO opposes compulsory manpower drafting and urges civilian control under an office of war mobilization.
State Liquor Director Don A. Fisher said Ohio received an even break or better in distiller allotments. From Jan 1 to March 20 the state took in more than 500000 cases. January receipts surpassed 1942 levels due to large stock on hand last year. February and March receipts exceeded 1942 figures by over 300000 cases.
Columbus police receive a letter stating a missing wife since last week and offering 48 a week plus two War Bonds and 10 percent of assets to deter locating her. The sender provides a dollar bill to wipe out anyone sharing information. Detective Chief Leo Phillips is handling the case.
The Food Distribution Administration of the Agriculture Department reported 447 million pounds of foodstuffs and agricultural commodities delivered in January for shipment to Allied nations, a bit below 1942 monthly averages.
Emily Blackwood age 90, longtime county resident and teacher, died Tuesday. She worked in state institutions including Athens State Hospital and Davenport homes. She is survived by nieces and nephews. Funeral Thursday at 2:30 at Miss Mary Walker’s home 33 S Congress St with burial in W Union Street Cemetery. Friends may call at Miss Walker’s residence.
The House approved bills allowing old age pensioners to engage in casual work without forfeiting pensions and permitting Lake Erie commercial fishermen to use spreader bars or buoys to keep nets open. Also, the Senate sent to the House a bill banning obscene motion pictures and raising the minimum obscene material fine to $200.
The Ohio Anti Saloon League pushes a bill to prohibit liquor sales by the drink while allowing bottle sales. Rep L H Myers introduces the measure to close places where war workers become unfit for their jobs and where war talk is common, P McNaught asserts.
Allied airmen fought daylight raids on northern France as Nazi raids returned on Britain's coast. Explosions west of Boulogne shook homes in Folke stone as Allied formations crossed the channel. RAF Mosquito bombers attacked the St Joseph Locomotive works near Nantes, with bombs seen in the factory center, a major producer of electric and steam locomotives.
The Department of Agriculture reports a rush of applicants for live stock slaughter permits required by midnight March 31. Christ Konrad of Portage County, a member of the Ohio AAA committee, directs permit issuance from the county U S C A warecape office. Home use slaughterers are exempt but must keep livestock purchase and sale records.
Field Marshal Archibald Wavell reports British forces unable to break Japanese lines on the Mayu Peninsula in Burma after four attempts. Troops must reposition for the coming monsoon season with heavy rains expected within weeks.
Washington AP report notes American meat rationing remains more generous than in other nations. U.S. weekly point values total about 32 ounces per person, varying with cuts and cheese or butter substitutions, versus England 4 ounces of bacon and 14 ounces other meat plus fats, Russia 16 ounces, and Germany 12 ounces per week.
U S heavy bombers knocked down 52 German fighters in last weeks Vege sack raid near Bremen, plus 20 probably shot down and 23 damaged. Maj. Gen. Ira Baker reported 28 fighters shot down in Wilhelmshaven raid, total 356 enemy victims to date and 90 bombers lost. He said the eight Air Force would build a large force to support a full scale offensive with RAF, plan night bombing with Fortresses and Liberators, and hinted Berlin targets are reachable.
Police in Covington confiscated selective service registrations from six boys aged 14 to 17 after an auto theft ring arrest. They noted youths registered before 18 to gain entry to cafes and pool rooms, citing the practice as the reason for the seizures.
Washington reports that coal burning stoves become available for sale after March 30, with pricing set by the Office of Price Administration. Earlier allocations restricted sales to districts under fuel rationing.
The Selective Service chief clarifies that dependents does not bar 3-B if registrant is engaged in essential civilian activity. Any 3 registrant with dependents in production or war-support roles must be classified 3-B, including jobs providing food clothing shelter health safety and other daily essentials. 3-A covers those with dependents not in essential work.
New York Northern Appalachian coal mine operators and United Mine Workers agree to keep mines operating for 30 days after April 1 on a retroactive basis. The contract, covering 450 000 mines, runs until March 31 with spokesperson Charles ONeill announcing the agreement after talks led by the President’s suggestion.
A truckload of liquid oxygen cartridges exploded four miles west of Cadiz injuring and killing three aboard. Deputy Sheriff Donald Tope identified the victims as William Nelson 22 of Steubenville Leonard Bake 22 of Smithfield and Roy Marker 18 of Bloomingdale. The truck owned by the Ohio Lox Co of Smithfield was hauling 80 cartridges for Hanna Coal Co mining operation.
Allied headquarters in North Africa credited two Ohio airmen with shooting down enemy planes yesterday as Allied raids against Axis sea lanes and supply bases continued. David R. Kava of Youngstown, a Flying Fortress gunner, downed one of the 24 enemy aircraft in the operations, and Staff Sgt. Herbert A. Bolin of Lancaster, gunner on another plane, also claimed a victory.
The Internal Revenue Bureau reported February collections of 1 059 072 269 dollars, up nearly 200 000 dollars from the same month last year, with total receipts from all internal revenue sources rising to 1 059 072 269 dollars versus 861 149 007 dollars a year earlier. Grace Coolidge's condition improved at Cooley Dickinson Hospital in Northampton Massachusetts. One hundred twenty one of 531 congress members have sons and daughters in the armed services.
Field Marshal Rommel strikes back with violent counterattacks to erase the British breach at Mareth. British forces hold Mareth village area while American troops in El Guetar sector inflict losses on German armor and push toward the sea. Churchill reports Rommel regained much ground near Zarat as Eighth Army advances within 13 miles of Gabes.
In Southern Tunisia US forces faced Adolf Hitler’s Panzer units. The embattled US infantry division knocked out over 80 German tanks, including 52 ton Mark VI tanks, despite the German heavy assault. The report praises the American spirit and growing strength of the Army as it repelled the attack.
Reported order for them to fight to the last man sparked a counterattack across Central and Southern Tunisia yesterday as forces pressed through three main sectors. Local reports describe heavy clashes and ongoing operations amid the broader campaign.
More than 3,000 Axis prisoners streamed rearward as Montgomery’s guns pounded. Rommel fought to keep Gabes corridor open while British columns closed on Gabes and El Hamma. Patton’s US troops neared the Mediterranean. In Russia, Red Army repulsed German assaults near Donets and Belkorod and advanced toward Smolensk, defeating hundreds of German soldiers.
The Ohio River crested or neared its crest for 475 miles from Dam 32 near Vanceburg Kentucky to Dam 49 near Uniontown Kentucky. Observers called the long flat crest a lifetime event as the river held at about 7.9 feet above the 52 foot flood mark and eight to ten feet above flood stage between dams. The steady crest reflected a balance of inflow and outflow keeping the stretch nearly stationary.
A continental source confirms the reinfluence of Germanys old military caste in the high command with Hitler as supreme commander. In Liverpool, the convoy system is hailed as the best defense against U boats if properly guarded by allied shipping.
Mrs Nellie Baker 45 of Ashville was killed and two female passengers injured when their car collided with a truck on Route 23 north of South Bloomfield today.
A Stockholm report cites an industrial engineer with knowledge of the Nazi war economy noting German and enslaved country production fell from about 3 000 to 2 000 planes monthly in the last year. Causes include inferior labor, coal and iron bottlenecks, undernourishment, and RAF raids disruption. Hitler reportedly ordered a reserve army of 3 000 000 to receive six weeks training.
FBI agents arrest Adolf Hitler era baker E. E. Conroy announces the 40 year old, once at Berchtesgaden and later employed in a famed West 42nd Street restaurant, who admitted arriving from Berchtesgaden in 1937 and serving the Nazi elite.
President Wheeler McMillen of the National Farm Chemurgie Council remarks that Europeans will not thank the United States for deciding governance after the war yet acknowledges self interest requires some U S involvement to restore order and ease suffering.
Supt Lynn Black of the state highway patrol announced that only 965 of 5 636 school buses inspected in the 1942 43 school year met all operation requirements.
A. Taylor of Newark was killed yesterday when his automobile struck a utility pole near Zanesville. Police said the driver’s identity was confirmed as A. Taylor of Newark and the crash occurred on a rural highway.
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