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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1943
Page
3
Washington AP reports fresh coupon values define weekly allowances for Americans. Each person may buy up to 2 1 2 pounds of steak or 3 1 5 pounds of hamburger per week using meat coupons. The plan allocates 16 points per person per week, with typical budgets including butter cheese and canned fish.
The Messenger reports the official table of consumer point values for meats fats fish and cheese becomes effective March 29. OPA says rations are relatively liberal for processed foods but impact varies by family. By Monday only milk bread cereals preserves and fresh produce may remain unrationed in many stores.
Allied forces reported a dawn air strike on three Rabaul airdromes in New Britain destroying and damaging hundreds of Japanese fighters and bombers. The raid used 54 tons of bombs and incendiaries in a one and a half hour attack with fires and smoke rising high. Gasmata Airdrome also targeted with two attacks that night.
An explosion at the government Ravenna ordnance depot killed an undetermined number of leading crew members. Col. Raymond A. Brown said two bodies recovered, with death toll likely under twelve. The blast at noon Eastern War Time was felt in Youngstown and nearby cities as a large smoke cloud rose.
CIO President Philip Murray and Socialist Norman Thomas oppose the civilian draft plan. They describe the Austin-Wadsworth bill as extreme and propose an office of war mobilization to oversee manpower and materials instead.
State Liquor Director Don A. Fisher reports Ohio received in excess of half a million cases of liquor from January 1 to March 20. He notes January receipts rose versus 1942 due to large stock on hand, while February and March surpassed 1942 totals by more than 300 000 cases.
Columbus detective receives a bizarre letter claiming a wife is missing. The writer offers ten percent of assets, monthly payments, and two War Bonds if authorities do not locate her. The note mentions a dollar bill as payment and warns against revealing her whereabouts.
The Food Distribution Administration reported deliveries of 447 million pounds of foodstuffs and agricultural commodities in January for shipment to Allied nations. The total was slightly below the 1942 monthly average.
Miss Emily Blackwood age 90, longtime county educator and state institution employee, died Tuesday. Survived by nieces and nephews. Funeral Thursday at 2:30 PM (EWT) at Miss Mary Walker’s home 33 S Congress St. Burial in W Union St Cemetery. Friends may call at Miss Walker’s residence.
The House passed measures allowing aged pensioners to engage in casual work without losing pensions and authorizing Lake Erie commercial fishermen to use spreader bars or buoys to keep nets open. The Senate sent to the House a bill banning obscene motion pictures and raising the minimum fine for possession or exhibition of obscene material from 50 to 200 dollars.
The Ohio Anti Saloon League pushes a bill to ban liquor sales by the drink while allowing bottle sales. Superintendent S P McNaught says the measure would close establishments where war workers become unfit for duty and where loose talk is common.
Allied airmen struck German targets in Northern France as Nazi raids hit British coastal districts. Explosions west of Boulogne damaged homes in Folkesstone area after daylight missions, following RAF night attacks on German railway lines. RAF Mosquito bombers hit the St Joseph Locomotive works near Nantes, with bombs exploding at a major electric and steam locomotive producer.
Columbus reports a rush of applicants for livestock slaughter permits required by midnight March 31. Christ Kainrad of Portage County, an Ohio AAA committee member, directs permit issuance from the county U S D A war office. Home slaughter for home consumption exempts, but records of purchases and sales must be kept.
London AP dispatches report Field Marshal Sir Archibald Wavell’s forces failed in four attempts to breach Japanese defenses on the tip of the Mayu Peninsula in Burma. The army must readjust positions to wait out the approaching 300 inch monsoon rains, with only weeks before floods begin.
Washington notes that U S weekly meat point values allow about 32 ounces per person, depending on cuts and diverted points. England rationing totals include bacon and various fats, Russia reports 16 ounces, Germany 12, with differences in basis and pricing.
U S heavy bombers struck Vege sack near Bremen last week with 52 German fighters shot down, 20 probably down, and 23 damaged. In Wilhelmshaven raid 28 fighters shot down, nine probable, nine damaged. Total Allied losses 90 bombers, 356 German fighters down. Eaker forecasts night bombing with Fortresses and Liberators. Berlin possible.
Police disclose that minors used selective service registrations to gain cafe and pool hall entry. One youth was arrested in an auto theft case, leading to the confiscation of draft cards from six youths aged 14 to 17.
Washington announces that coal burning stoves can be purchased by almost anyone after March 30. The Office of Price Administration says stoves will no longer be rationed in districts where fuel restrictions apply.
Washington reports on Selective Service Chief Hershey clarifying that registrants with dependents can be classified 3-B if they engage in essential civilian activities supporting the war effort. The rule emphasizes whether the registrant is engaged in essential work rather than just having dependents, with 3-A as the fallback if not in essential activity.
Northern Appalachian soft coal mine operators and the United Mine Workers agreed to keep mines running for 30 days after April 1 on a retroactive basis. The contract now ends March 31. Charles O Neill spokesman said the agreement follows a 90 minute meeting and follows presidential suggestion.
A truck carrying liquid oxygen cartridges exploded four miles west of Cadiz blowing three men to bits. 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 Ohio Lox Co of Smithfield was hauling 80 cartridges for Hanna Coal Co mining operation.
Allied headquarters in North Africa reports two Ohio airmen downed enemy planes yesterday as Axis sea lanes and supply bases faced renewed Allied strikes. Sgt. David R. Kava of Youngstown, a Flying Fortress gunner, credited with a victory over one plane, and Staff Sgt. Herbert A. Bolin of Lancaster, a gunner aboard another aircraft, also shot down one.
The Internal Revenue Bureau reported February collections totaling $1,059,072,269, about $198,000,000 higher than the same month last year. February receipts from all internal revenue sources rose from $861,149,007 to the larger figure.
Mrs Grace Coolidge widow of former President Calvin Coolidge was reported considerably improved at Cooley Dickinson Hospital in Northampton Massachusetts Today. One hundred twenty one of 531 members of congress have sons and daughters in the armed services including six from Ohio.
Nazi counterattacks under Field Marshal Erwin Rommel reclaimed much of the British breach in the Mareth Line but failed to dislodge British forces from Mareth village. American troops in the El Guetar sector claimed a reverse on German forces and pushed toward the sea near Maknassy, with U S artillery destroying many German tanks east of El Guetar as Churchill outlined gains near Zarat and Gabes.
United States infantry division faced Adolf Hitler’s panzers in southern Tunisia and knocked out more than 380 German tanks from a force of about 100. The 52 ton Mark VII tanks were among those destroyed as the Germans committed their strongest push. The action is portrayed as a demonstration of the U S Army spirit and growing strength in battle.
Reported order urged troops to fight to the last man as forces counter-attacked in all three main sectors of Central and Southern Tunisia yesterday. Local residents reported heavy clashes and mounting casualties amid the broader conflict in the region.
Churchill warned the battle was not over as Montgomery’s forces extended toward Gabes with 3,000 axis prisoners flowing back and Rommel fighting to keep a Mareth Line corridor open. Patton’s troops neared the sea as Soviet forces repelled German assaults near the upper Donets and Smolensk, killing over 500 officers and men.
The Ohio River crested or neared its crest for 475 miles from Dam 32 near Vanceburg Kentucky to Dam 49 near Uniontown Kentucky. Observers note a rare long crest due to a balance of water inflow and outflow. The river stood at 7.9 feet above the 52 foot flood mark at Cincinnati and remained eight to ten feet above flood stage between the two dams.
A continental source reports the old German military caste regaining influence in the high command with Hitler as supreme commander. The piece likens him to Roosevelt in the United States. In Liverpool, the convoy system is praised as the best defense against U-boat attacks if convoys are well guarded.
Mrs. Nellie Baker aged 45 of Ashville died when her car collided with a truck on Route 23 north of South Bloomfield. Two female companions were injured in the same crash.
An industrial engineer says German warplane production fell from 3000 to about 2000 per month over the past year. Causes include inferior labor from guiding skilled workers to inexperienced women and foreign staff, coal and iron transport bottlenecks, worker undernourishment, and RAF raids disrupting economy. Hitler is said to have ordered a reserve army of 3,000,000 with six weeks of training.
The FBI arrest a 41 year old man described as Adolf Hitler's former baker who prepared pastries for the Nazi Elite Guard and storm troopers at Berchtesgaden. E. E. Conroy stated the man arrived from Berchtesgaden in 1937 and worked at a renowned West 42nd Street restaurant.
Chicago report quotes President Wheeler McMillen of the National Farm Chemurgie Council saying Europeans will not thank the United States for dictating postwar governance while noting intelligent self interest will push the U S to help restore order and ease suffering. Columbus note quotes Supt Lynn Black of the state highway patrol reporting only 965 of 5636 inspected school buses met requirements for operation in the 1942 43 school year.
A. C. Taylor of Newark died yesterday when his airmobile struck a utility pole. The crash occurred here and the incident is under city report review.
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