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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1944
Page
11
Ohio voters from both parties selected their fall campaign tickets as the primary season ended. Polls opened at 7 30 am in Eastern War Time and close twelve hours later with Bricker aiming for national convention support.
Early voting in Ohio shows light turnout as residents choose delegates for Roosevelt and Taft era races. Republicans seek governor nominees while Democrats contend for Roosevelt renomination, with Bricker’s absence shaping the crowded field and West Virginia GOP battles adding pressure.
Funeral services were held yesterday for 12 of 16 American airmen whose planes landed or crashed in Switzerland after bombing Germany. The death toll in Switzerland reached 33, with all buried at Munsingen where American authorities have secured a plot for a U S airmen cemetery.
Preliminary figures show Great Lakes grain movement reaching a new April high of 75 million bushels, up from 38 million bushels in the first two months of the 1943 season.
John L. Lewis pulls United Mine Workers bid to rejoin the AFL amid accusations that New Deal executives and AFL officials blocked labor unity for political reasons. Lewis charges imperatives from New Deal politicians, provoking Democratic pushback and varied reactions from Senators Tunnell and Ellender.
The Messenger will provide telephone returns by night for state and county races from the Messenger Building. Call 0244 0245 or 0246 for updates. The count starts after polls close and trends are not expected for several hours. The information is secured from the Associated Press and the Athens County election board.
An Italian service unit battalion of about 1000 officers and men has arrived at Camp John T. Knight in Oakland California. The Italian soldiers volunteered for work for the U S Army and will serve under their own officers. Most tasks are maintenance operations.
Washington reports little hope for ending sugar rationing or boosting sugar allotments in 1944. War Food Administration says stocks on hand April 1 totaled 1,256,366 tons, 30 percent below the previous year and the lowest for a similar date in many years.
ZANESVILLE Ohio Whipple M Shiplett 48 of New Lexington was killed and Donald Henry Debout 20 of Newark was injured critically when their automobile failed to negotiate a turn on National Road 14 miles west of Zanesville.
Chicago workers at Montgomery Ward and Company vote on whether to form a CIO union in a labor dispute that led to a federal seizure of the mail order house. About 5 000 employees were eligible under NLRB supervision. results expected tonight as a court battle over the seizure continues.
The United Steelworkers of America with a 200000 budget for political action is expected to back the fourth term movement at its annual convention opening in Cleveland. Philip Murray, president of the steelworkers and CIO, calls the gathering probably the largest labor convention ever, with more than 2300 delegates for five days.
The Marauder Mild and Bitter, a United States medium bomber based in England, flew last evening in a raid on a German airfield in France and became the first Allied bomber to reach its hundredth mission in this theater.
Allied forces pounded targets across the Pacific theater from Hollandia to Truk and Guam. Battered Truk and Wake Island areas faced heavy bombing as Marines seized Cape Hoskins and the American air umbrella expanded toward Japanese positions along the Carolines and Honan China fronts.
FBI officials in Washington announced fingerprints from a woman's body found in a Chicago trunk link to a suspect with multiple arrests in southern states. The FBI identified the deceased as Louise Chestine Wright, while Chicago police had earlier named Louise Villegas as the victim and noted she had used the name Louise Alexander and lived at a hotel with a man connected to the trunk’s shipment to Los Angeles. Birthplace listed as Myrtle, Miss, on an identification card.
General Maximiliano Hernandez Martinez resigns as president effective today after a strike and revolt that left 53 dead and 134 wounded. The government executed 25 people following the revolt as El Salvador, a coffee producer, faces internal turmoil amid wartime actions after Pearl Harbor. James G. Cooper, 73, elder brother of former Ohio Governor Myers Y. Cooper, dies at home in Cincinnati.
Hackensack New Jersey Lloyd L. Schroeder leader of the draft Dewey group says Governor Walter E Edge is mindful of a vice presidential bid if Ohio Governor John Bricker wins the Republican nomination. Schroeder questions Edge’s ties to Pennsylvania backer Joe Pew and a plan to head off a Dewey ticket through unpledged delegates at the May 16 primary.
Russian storm troops bombarded Sevastopol as fortifications near the port city were stormed. Front line dispatches say the German defense was pressed back toward the Black Sea with heavy losses. Red Star reports a breakthrough along the line and encirclement from Mackenzie Heights to Inkerman.
In a Jefferson Day dinner in New York Democratic National Chairman Robert E Hannegan said he was convinced Franklin D Roosevelt would seek a fourth term and be elected. He noted it was his personal opinion and he had not discussed it with the president. Republican Rep Halleck disputed the claim saying Roosevelt himself spoke through Hannegan.
A. M. Edwards Jr gasoline enforcement officer said 325 out of state car license numbers were recorded at Louisville Kentucky Derby last Saturday. Reports go to state OPA headquarters for relay to local boards which will be expected to take appropriate action.
Cleveland 3 500 members of the Me chanics Educational Society of America at National Acme Co will give up their 10 day vacations per requests from the War and Navy Departments Emil Petitto president of the union local reports today.
One thousand two hundred Timken Roller Bearing Co workers idle at the Gambrinus steel mill consider a proposal to end the walkout that began last Wednesday. The decision hinges on whether the plan satisfies worker demands and company terms.
Washington reports suggest Congress may tighten lend lease fund use as war aid is extended for another year beyond July 1. Administration seeks 3.5 billion more. Langer opposes continuation and quashes perceived material squandering. Brewster questions Britain’s 50 million loan to China while Taft pushes for strict war-use limits.
Washington Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey leads a conference with draft directors from 48 states and territories to provide a uniform interpretation of selective service provisions. The meetings through Wednesday focus on existing policies and surface no plan to resume drafting men over 26.
Secretary of State Edward J. Hummel ordered all ballots in Mahoning County impounded after counting amid reports of irregularities. A guard was placed to oversee the ballots tonight as the count proceeded.
Funeral services for Allen Secoy 82 who died Sunday at his daughter's home in Detroit will be held Wednesday at 2 30 p m in the South Canaan Church with burial in South Canaan Cemetery. He was born near Guysville and lived near New England until recently. He leaves a son Guy Secoy Baltic Ohio a daughter Mrs Florence McLain Dayton a brother Amos Guthrie Center Iowa eight grandchildren and two great grandchildren.
About 210 bus drivers and ticket agents returned to work on Penn-Ohio coach lines routes ending a seven day strike that halted service. In Cleveland a Pacific war outlook predicts continued hostilities for at least three to four years per AP correspondent J Nageman.
Allied air action drops vast tonnage on France Belgium and Luxembourg targets as 2 000 American planes bomb seven airfields and three railyards in what is described as a record day of aerial assault. British bombers add up to 3 360 tons on railways airfields and defense points across occupied Europe.
Mrs. Radie Elizabeth Santee Bailey 23 wife of Pvt Randolph Bailey Camp Wolters Texas died Monday at her parents home near Long Bottom Ohio Funeral services Thursday at 2 pm at Success with interment in nearby cemetery She leaves husband parents one sister Mrs Carl Allie Parkersburg and two brothers Pvt Raymond Santee in Alabama and Santee of the armed forces in Alabama
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