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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 31, 1943
Page
1
In Washington Democrats rejected the Ruml Plan by 215 to 198 and sidetracked all pay as you go tax legislation including a proposed 20 percent withholding tax from wages and salaries. Republicans contemplate a compromise as the session unfolds.
In Washington Rep J Harry McGregor urged cutting the federal payroll by half and adopting a pay-as-you-earn system. The House debate revealed GOP plans to seek substantial tax abatement, while Democrats cheered the Rumi Plan vote. Roosevelt signaled further UN talks with Eden and postwar policy questions puzzled the Senate committee. The food program faced price control questions as Davis sought authority. rubber and price caps actions followed with OPA setting maximums on used trucks and buses effective April 26.
An explosion during demolition exercises at Camp Swift Texas yesterday killed a lieutenant and seven enlisted men and wounded five others. One casualty was withheld.
A lone American Flying Fortress, amid pitch black, probably sank a large Japanese destroyer and forced three others to withdraw off Northern New Guinea. Allied air forces also hit Lae Salamua and Finschhafen bases, and a recon plane shot down four of nine Japanese planes in the Bismarck Sea. RAF planes damaged 13 of 22 enemy bombers and fighters near Bengal, with five listed as probably destroyed.
Chicago report shows Bendix Aviation President Ernest R. Breech announces a dramatic aviation advance that eliminates fog related hazards in blind flying even at night. Breech offers no specifics but says the development is broad in military use and will conquer such hazards.
Col. Arthur V. McDermott, director of selective service for New York City, told a Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce luncheon that industry and commerce must be ready to release 8,500,000 able bodied men during 1943. He added that the Army and Navy cannot accept substitutes for these men and that industry must accept substitutes for the workers currently employed.
Kent State University welcomed its first batch of several hundred Army Air Cadets who arrived yesterday to begin training on campus facilities and programs.
A measure to pension a judge earning $12 000 a year at $6 000 annually moved to the Ohio House after the Senate reversed and approved it. Opponents likened it to the failed congressmen's pension plan and predicted the House would kill it.
Ohio residents flocked to deputy registrar offices on the final day for purchasing windshield stickers wartime license plates. Chief Registrar W. Wallace estimated 1943 license sales across automobile truck trailer and motorcycle categories would near the 2,270,000 units sold last year.
Boise report says Idaho will ration liquor effective April 5 with weekly limits of one quart per person for whiskey gin rum and liquor wine exempt. Leland Rawson of the state agency oversees the program. A separate note from Cleveland shows Ohio bicycle quotas rising to 3905 for April, up 259 from March.
Baton Rouge Louisiana AP says the government built a 30,000 ton annual capacity synthetic rubber plant under the Baruch program. The plant produced the first synthetic rubber today, with all output reserved for the Army and Navy.
Rep Earl M French warns before the House Judiciary Committee that he has been threatened and intimidated while pursuing a bill to regulate labor unions. The measure would create a three member state board to oversee unions, bar strikes without employee majority approval, require 20 days notice, ban sympathy strikes, mass picketing, slowdowns and sitdowns, and demand a four fifths vote to form an all union shop. Toledo lawyer William D Snow notes similar provisions cut strikes in Wisconsin and Minnesota.
Dr Carl Watson WPA administrator said the federal agency now operates only a few nursery schools and would close by April 10 without Lanham act funds. WPA will cut operations to 14 states and end in Ohio with about two dozen staff remaining for final accounting by May 1.
A Columbus warehouse fire destroyed 20 barrels of spices 50 000 pounds of coffee 200 000 pounds of peanuts 36 000 pounds of peanut butter and 20 000 pounds of sugar at the Andrus Scofield Co spokesman said the spices could not be replaced.
State Liquor Director Don A Fisher plans talks in Columbus with major distiller executives as Ohio moves toward a definite rationing program. The plan, likely to pass Senate after House approval, would begin immediately with a zone system requiring registered buyers to purchase only from the state store serving their residence.
General Motors personnel officer S. M. Dubrul told the House Labor Committee that most absenteeism is confined to a small percentage of employees with bad records. He said public figures claiming fixed causes beyond workers fault should be educated.
The Roosevelt administration moves to ease a dairy labor shortage by a semi compulsory manpower plan. It allows reclassifications and potential recalls to agriculture and essential industry while preserving deferments for dairy work and offering limited service for older workers. Conscientious objectors may be drafted into dairy farming.
Summit County Coroner ruled murder in the deaths of Lucille Caprano a 23 year old Kent State University senior and George W Reynolds a 55 year old Twin Lakes Country Club cook found slain in a car along a wooded road between Cleveland and Akron Both victims died from gunshot wounds with Caprano shot in the chest and Reynolds in the back and chest The coroner said they may have been robbed Caprano carried large bills but her purse contained only 41 cents The killings appear linked to a robbery attempt with both believed to have died about 10 p m Sunday
Cleveland Detroit and Akron poultry dealers propose a two point plan to unfreeze the live poultry market. They call for a uniform nationwide ceiling and a base price set on the farm to simplify pricing from farm to city.
Los Angeles police say Amos Raymond Latshaw 19 confessed to shooting his parents grandparents and a young brother on February 11 at the Loomis ranch after working as a theater doorman for weeks. A traffic officer identified him and detectives announced the confession.
Colorado selective service director Brig. Gen. H. H. Richardson told local boards to refer all farm registrants to county war boards. The move follows Governor John C. Vivian’s demand to stop induction of farm labor. In a separate note, Moscow said Russian guerrillas derailed nine Nazi trains in Ukraine.
Allied headquarters reported British Eighth Army advancing deep into the Gabes bottleneck in rapid pursuit of Rommel's retreating columns while U S troops hammered Rommel's escape corridor across three sectors on a 100 mile front.
Civilian analyst Elmer Davis expected Axis forces in Tunisia to be eliminated or neutralized in time for a continental invasion this year. Reports from Allied commands described rapid advances by American and British forces across the Gabes area toward Sfax and Maknassy, with Rommel’s retreat hampered and air raids causing heavy damage along the Gulf of Gabes.
OPA Administrator Prentiss M. Brown pledged reasonable sugar amounts for home canning and vetoed proposals to deduct canning sugar from ration points. Aide staff indicated that few if any canned goods coupons would be taken from canning sugar purchases, despite technician proposals.
Washington The AFL Brotherhood of Teamsters chief Daniel J. Tobin cautions in a union publication that the Democratic Party risks losing labor backing by attacks on organized labor. Tobin says many labor leaders feel betrayed and warns that industrial workers dominate electoral outcomes beyond the farm vote.
Columbus reports 23 year old William Patrick Jennings, a Black man from Youngstown, is scheduled for execution by electric chair for the murder of 18 year old James Oswald White. Governor John C. Vivian has intervened in a farm labor draft dispute by ordering a halt to inductions of farm workers.
Senator Holman of Oregon urged the American Legion and other groups to direct attention to a thorough housecleaning of government agencies. He spoke at a Senate military committee hearing on a bill to draft men and women into war jobs, voicing alarm about waste of manpower.
The Office of War Information published a booklet indicating further rationing may come. It states three all purpose ration books will be printed enabling rationing without advance notice.
Washington official confirms the revocation of code membership for William, Benjamin, and Stanley Dishon of Sure Fire Coal Company in New Straitsville Ohio after charges they sold below minimum prices. Dan H Wheeler director of the Bituminous Coal Division announced the action.
New York city lad Fran Kominsky 13 finds thirteen thousand nine hundred one dollars in a junk heap on a Monday noon. He and two friends searched the pile when the money was found and authorities say if unclaimed after six months the finders may keep it.
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