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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 31, 1943
Page
5
Democrats won a significant early battle by defeating the Rum Plan 215 to 198 and blocking all pay as you go tax measures including a 20 percent withholding tax proposal. Republicans weighing a compromise in response to the setback.
Allied reports say Patton's U S troops tightened their encirclement on Rommel in a 100 mile Tunisian front while British Eighth and First Armies surged into Gabes area and toward Sfax. Casualties and air battles accompany the rapid pursuit across Ousseltia Maknassy and Maknassy towards the coast.
In a district poll Rep J Harry McGregor says 95 percent favor a pay as you go tax system and suggests Congress cut the federal payroll by half. Republicans discuss compromising to abate a substantial portion of one year’s taxes as Democrats cheer the vote. Roosevelt eyes a Russian American conference while others question authority over farm prices and war crop incentives. OPA sets reduced prices for used trucks and ambulances to curb speculative pricing.
An explosion during demolition exercises at Camp Swift Texas killed a lieutenant and seven enlisted men and wounded five other soldiers. Names of the casualties were withheld. Columbus Ohio announced a night air raid defense drill set for April 8 affecting at least 19 northern counties. A robber knocked John Henretta unconscious in his coal company office. Henretta is legless and the loss was $30.
A lone American Flying Fortress attacked in night darkness and is credited with probably sinking a large Japanese destroyer and driving three others away off Northern New Guinea. Allied forces also hit Lae Salamua and Finschhafen bases and Gasamata in New Britain. A reconnaissance plane shot down four of nine Japanese planes over the Bismarck Sea. RAF fighters damaged 13 of 22 Japanese bombers and fighters in Bengal Province.
President Ernest R. Breech of Bendix Aviation says new aviation developments will end blind flying in fog and at night. He gave an address to the Illinois Manufacturers Association noting the breakthrough is broad for military use but offered no details on the method.
New York Col Arthur V. McDermott, director of selective service for New York City, said industry and commerce must release 3 500 000 able bodied men in 1943. He warned the Army and Navy cannot accept substitutes for these workers and urged industry to accept substitutes among those employed now.
Kent State University received its first contingent of several hundred Army Air Cadets yesterday for training to begin at the campus. The arrival marks the start of the program’s local phase with the cadets assigned to military training stations and classroom instruction.
A proposed retirement system would pension a judge earning $12 000 a year at $6000 annually. The bill, sent to the Ohio House after Senate approval, faces House opposition likened to the congressmen’s pension bill and may be killed.
Ohio residents lined up at deputy registrar offices on the final day to purchase wartime windshield stickers for motor vehicle licenses. C. W. Wallace, chief registrar, estimated 1943 sales would approach the 2,270,000 sold last year for autos trucks trailers and motorcycles.
Boise Idaho liquor will be rationed starting April 5 with weekly limits of one quart per person for whiskey gin rum and liquor wine not included. Leland Rawson of the state package agency system announced the policy. Cleveland Ohio reports April bicycle quota set at 3905, up 259 from March.
A government built plant in Baton Rouge under the Baruch program turned out the first synthetic rubber made from petroleum. The 30,000 ton annual plant will supply Army and Navy tires, not released for public use, with production completed in about 20 weeks from blueprint to operation.
Rep. Earl M. French of Delaware told the House Judiciary Committee that he has been threatened and intimidated as he backed a labor regulation bill. The measure would create a three member state board to regulate unions, restrict strikes without a majority vote, require 20 days’ notice to strike, ban sympathy strikes and mass picketing, slow downs, and require a four fifths vote to form an all union shop. Toledo attorney William D. Snow cited Wisconsin and Minnesota experience as evidence that such provisions reduce strikes by more than 50 percent.
Dr. Carl Watson, Ohio WPA administrator, said the agency, once 378000 strong in October 1938, now operates only a few nursery schools and will close by April 10 unless Lanham act funds arrive. WPA will shrink to 14 states, with a dozen Ohio staffers ending today and about twenty four remaining for final accounting by May 1.
A Columbus warehouse blaze destroyed 20 barrels of spices 50 000 pounds of coffee 200 000 pounds of peanuts 36000 pounds of peanut butter and 20000 pounds of sugar in Andrus Scofield Co. stocks last night. A company spokesman said the spices could not be replaced.
State Liquor Director Don A. Fisher predicts passage of liquor rationing in Ohio. He will confer with major distiller executives as a rationing program is decided, with the House already approving and Senate action likely. The plan calls for immediate effect but a gradual start due to printing extensive cards, using a zone rationing system with residency-based state store purchases.
General Motors personnel officer S M Dubrul told the House Labor Committee most of our absenteeism is confined to a small percentage of employees with bad attendance records. He noted public figures blame a fixed number of causes and said they need to be educated.
President Roosevelt announces a semi compulsory manpower program to relieve a dairy worker shortage by drafting farm experienced men if needed while protecting dairy labor with draft deferral. The plan also shifts older veterans into essential industry jobs and allows dairy farmers to accept conscientious objectors under draft relief.
Akron in Summit County coroner verdict of murder for Lucille Caprano 23 Kent State co ed and George W Reynolds 55 Twin Lakes Country Club cook found shot in a car along a wooded road between Cleveland and Akron. Caprano died from chest and lung wounds. Reynolds from back and chest wounds. Authorities suspect robbers. Caprano’s purse contained only 41 cents.
Cleveland Detroit and Akron poultry dealers proposed a two point plan to unfreeze the live poultry market. They urged a uniform nationwide ceiling and a farm base price, arguing simpler markets for handlers than city base prices. 125 dealers attended the meeting with Wayne Rice of the OPA.
Amos Raymond Latshaw, 19, who worked as a theater doorman in downtown Los Angeles for nearly a month, was identified by a traffic officer and police detective captain as having confessed to shooting his parents, grandparents, and a young brother on February 11 at their ranch near Loomis.
Brig. Gen. H. H. Richardson told local selective service boards to send all farmer-registrants to county war boards for case consideration, implementing Governor John C. Vivian's demand to halt inductions of farm labor.
The Moscow radio reported a Soviet monitor heard that Russian guerrillas had derailed nine enemy trains recently in the Ukraine.
OPA Administrator Prentiss M. Brown promised home canners a reasonable sugar allotment and vetoed proposals to take canning goods ration points. He said the agency is developing a program to issue sugar for home canning of fruits and vegetables, with details forthcoming. Aides indicated that few if any canning coupons would be deducted for canning sugar despite technician suggestions of 8 to 12 points per pound.
Washington The AFL's Daniel J. Tobin warned the Democratic Party risks losing labor support by accusing organized labor ofARCH. He argued industrial workers drive elections and farm votes do not control outcomes. Columbus reports William Patrick Jennings, 23, from Youngstown, is to be executed tonight for murdering 18-year-old James Oswald White.
Senator Holman charges federal departments shelter draft dodgers in non essential work and calls on the American Legion and similar groups to push a thorough government house cleaning amid a senate military committee hearing on wartime draft job bills.
Washington reports the Office of War Information says additional rationing may occur beyond current levels. A new OWI booklet announces three all purpose ration books to be printed, enabling rationing without advance notice.
Washington report says Dan H. Wheeler director of the Bituminous Coal Division revoked the code membership of William Benjamin and Stanley Dishon of Sure Fire Coal Company New Straitsville Ohio for selling below minimum prices.
New York 14 Fran Kominsky a 13 year old east side boy in grade 8B and two companions were sorting through a junk heap Monday noon when Fran found $13 901 in folding money and coins. If no claimant appears within six months police will turn the money over to the finder.
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