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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1943
Page
1
American British and French forces tighten ports and settle into a brief interlude after German offensives pause. General Giraud predicts May will bring decisive defeat of the Boche in Asia, signaling a new phase in the brutal conflict.
Three Rockbridge youths including brothers Eugene Couch and Robert Graham and William Graham died from accidental carbon monoxide poisoning at the Kirn Hotel in Lancaster. Couch registered early Saturday and the three were found amid a burning gas heater by the landlady. Police and the county coroner ruled accidental poisoning as the heater flames were reportedly turned up too high. The victims worked at Anchor Hocking Glass Corp and had sought a ride home earlier that night.
Allied headquarters report a powerful Japanese air raid near Darwin Australia involving 21 bombers and 30 fighters. Thirteen enemy planes were destroyed or damaged as Australian and British Spitfires engaged in a fierce battle over the Darwin area and the Arafura Sea.
An AP dispatch says Allied air forces and U S Navy reports show heavy losses in the Pacific with 27 500 tons sunk and 65 800 tons damaged by General MacArthur s air forces and Flying Fortresses in April Navy disclosures add Marines and warships losses of 125 000 tons in recent operations while Allied air forces report ongoing patrols and several aircraft losses in the broader war theater Also notes Tunis front advances by Allies and air and naval actions along the Cap Bon coast and around Bizerte. mentions German and Russian aerial activity and Soviet praise for Allied war efforts
Industry sources said a 48 hour week ordered by the War Production Commission would boost steel payrolls by about 100 dollars a year. The impact would affect more than 500000 workers but would not increase production.
Deneen A. Watson chairman of the Midwest conference of the Republican Postwar Policy Association urged the establishment of a council of nations as a fundamental for lasting peace. He told delegates that ordinary GOP voters won’t repeat 1919 1920 mistakes and argued ending the New Deal confusion will draw independents and Democrats to back a tougher foreign policy stance against Roosevelt in his fourth term.
Hollywood reports a fire at the 15 room two story French provincial home of actress Joan Bennett and her husband Walter Wanger. Flames forced the family including Miss Bennett and Wanger to flee in night clothes along with two daughters from a previous marriage and three servants.
U S Air Force bold intercepts north of an advanced airdrome in Huán Province, shooting down seven to fourteen Japanese Zero fighters and routing a larger formation.Warhawks pursued the survivors, with seven of the attackers confirmed destroyed and seven possibly shot down.
Middletown today claimed a nationwide over the top record in the war bond drive with an exhaust of 112 percent over the quota.
AP reports a German submarine sunk off the Carolina coast raising the AP tally of Nazi U boat losses in the Atlantic since Pearl Harbor to 42. The sink brings total undersea marauders reported sunk to 103 since June 30, 1940.
John H. Mc Coy, campaign chairman for 20 Central Ohio counties, announced subscriptions reached 140 million dollars versus an 83 million goal. Each county exceeded its quota during the second war loan drive.
William Samuel Shepherd died Sunday at the family home after a three week illness following influenza. Funeral at First Methodist Church Tuesday at 2 pm with Rev. E A Brown officiating. Interment in West Union Street Cemetery. Survived by wife S Anna Stoody Shepherd, daughter Mrs D R Zenner, and grandsons Phillip N Zenner and Gregory S Zenner.
Washington AP says the second war loan brought in about 17 billion dollars, exceeding the goal by roughly 4 billion. Most funds came from non banking sources as Treasury awaits final total around May 10. Morgenthau praises the drive and signals higher objectives for future campaigns.
President Roosevelt nominates Brig. Gen. Norman T. Kirk to be surgeon general of the Army succeeding Major General Magee who will complete his term in June. Kirk heads Percy Jones Hospital in Battle Creek Michigan and Alexander C. Kirk is named ambassador to the Greek government in exile in Cairo.
Detective Captain Norman E. Van Almen said he would file homicide charges today against Minis Mikels, 60, an unemployed war veteran, in the fatal beating of his daughter Eva Mikels, 26. Mikels confessed to beating her to death with a baseball bat as she slept, claiming a devil prompted the act.
Ohio starts sign ups for a state rationing program for packaged spirits. Residents 21 and older may enroll by May 10 and prove residence. Books issued alphabetically at retailers starting May 17, with purchases limited to local stores as June 1 start. State agencies shut down until then.
Four months of party strife end today as the House moves to pass a pay as you go income tax bill. It aims to wipe out half or more of the 10 billion in tax assets against 1942 individual incomes and likely imposes a 20 percent withholding on wages and salaries starting July 1. Members return from a 10 day Easter recess to argue proposals today and vote tomorrow.
Eastern Ohio miners return to work after a stoppage ended by government and United Mine Workers agreement. Three major mines report near normal crews, with Adolph Pacifico noting rapid return and the afternoon shift likely normal.
In Gallitzin Pennsylvania Local 1056 of the United Mine Workers led the return to work after a nationwide soft coal strike was called off. Miners resumed without waiting for John L. Lewis, with many hopeful for wage increases as Powhatan and Rail and River Co mines reported near normal operations. Pacifico praised the two week end date as proper to support wartime coal needs.
Oakland report quotes CIO President Phil Murray pledging no wartime work stoppages by CIO unions. He warns against labor leaders being blamed for soldiers sacrifices and stresses leadership responsibility during wartime.
The Office of Fuels Administrator Ickes said today that the freeze on in transit coal shipments had been canceled in view of a truce. The measure ensures a resumption of mining for two weeks at least.
Police Chief reports a 44 year old Black steel worker surrendered to city jail in East Liverpool and will be charged with first degree serious case in the fatal assault of 22 year old Phoebe Peachy who was walking home from church with her mother.
Stockholm dispatch says the German high command plans to raise an army of 200000 to 500000 from captured Russian soldiers and civilians in the Baltic, selecting those deemed reliable. The force would be led by a former Soviet general now under Nazi control.
Madame Chiang Kai-Shek, wife of Chinese Generalissimo, returns to Washington to stay at the White House as a guest again through Wednesday.
The Army Quartermaster Corps asks Ohio farmers to modify sugar beet and canning vegetable schedules to offset expected 1943 slumps. Col. William J. Calvert warns shortfalls could threaten supply for armed services as soldiers consume heavy daily rations. Elmer F. Kruse notes Ohio plans show only about half of the 52,000 acre sugar beet goal, with incomplete canning crop figures also discouraging.
The Berlin radio quoted a hand-picked commission from 12 countries saying Polish officers killed by the Russians near Smolensk were shot in March and April 1940. Seven graves yielded 982 bodies, 70 percent identified. deaths attributed to shots in the neck. Moscow accuses Germany of the killings amid wartime allegations.
Washington report says Senate considers Connally anti strike bill to seize mines and plants. He may amend to curb labor leaders to push workers to quit mines and war factories.
The United States Government intervened to resume coal mining as UMW stops ended. President Roosevelt urged miners to return to work for war production, with Harold Ickes coordinating a 15 day truce to renegotiate contracts. Miners and operators head toward a wage settlement while fuel supplies and steel plants face pressures. A separate fatal auto collision near Delta, Ohio killed Arnold Gottschalk and Ethel Dowell.
West Virginia State Health Commissioner C F McClitic announced quarantine orders extended to Ohio River boat travelers to protect war workers in the northern Panhandle from a smallpox outbreak in the galley.
Charles E. Shaffer, 51, was struck and killed by a train near the Pennsylvania depot yesterday.
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