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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 07, 1941
Page
1
The United States announced a one billion dollar interest-free lease-lend credit to the Soviet Union to aid its war effort against Germany. Stalin approved the terms, while critics condemned funding without taxpayer approval and delivery plans face naval and diplomatic hurdles.
In Glen Cove New York voters faced a Yes No decision in a municipal election on two charter amendments. One would cut City Judge Reginald Moore’s salary from 5000 to 2000, the other would keep it at the present level.
Logan dentist Dr. Harry Eastman was found unconscious in an alley beside a stairway to his second story West Main Street office about 9 30 p m Thursday. Police suspect a fall from the 21 step stairway caused a skull fracture. He was taken to Cherrington Hospital with injuries including a knee abrasion and a right eye wound.
Elroy Short aged 22 died this morning from a gunshot wound at his Murray City home. Hocking County officials were called to investigate as Short and his mother were present. his father and brother were at work. Short had returned home from Columbus due to ill health.
The torpedo sinking of the U S Destroyer Reuben James left a death toll of 100. Naval clerks rechecking rosters added Edward Peter Saltis, boatswain, first class, Staunton Illinois, to the list.
Carriers Conference committees representing all Class 1 railroads accept the Roosevelt fact finding board wage recommendations for 1,250,000 workers. A CIO strike disrupts a General Motors plant in Linden New Jersey while a St. Louis machine tool strike ends with a three year contract including a union shop and five cent hourly increases. AFL metal trades to meet November 17 over Pacific Coast shipyard welders demand for an AFL charter. Aircraft welders at three California plants continue striking. Sidney Hillman calls the action illegal and warns against sympathy strikes, saying they threaten national defense.
In Ohio a canvass of unofficial returns shows 24 dry and 17 wet communities. Ohio Buckeye Brewers Association executive secretary John Marshall notes many dry wins were to regain lost ground, not a shift from wet to dry. Barnesville led with a ban on beer and liquor and prohibits 11 permit holders from selling drinks and forces closure of a new state liquor store.
Maggie Swearingen age 50 of Dyesville died in a Toledo hospital after a week of pneumonia. She had gone to Toledo to work in the state hospital a month earlier. She is survived by her father J. S. Dudgeon, a brother Frank Dudgeon, two children Grace Turner and Edward Jimmie Swearingen, two stepsons Donald and Edgar Swearingen, and three grandchildren. Funeral plans incomplete.
Lancaster obituary recalls Stephen A. Gortner an 82 year old educator at Lancaster Boys Industrial School who taught woodwork weaving and music and served as chaplain. He wished burial in the school cemetery and state Welfare Director Charles L. Sherwood approved. Services were held in the school chapel with all three faith chaplains and the inmate choir.
In Atlanta a circus faces a deadly outbreak as arsenic poisoning is blamed for eight elephant deaths with survivors in distress. Liz and Lizzie are among the affected, Puqua the pygmy elephant also dies, while officials inspect loading grounds near the rail siding for sources. Name value of each trained animal ranges from ten to fifteen thousand dollars.
In Columbus musty records and a 1856 Ohio Supreme Court ruling were cited in a tax case over government lands donated to Miami University. Mary M. Hughes of Wooster seeks foreclosure relief from tax liens, arguing the lands are non taxable.
Columbus report states the Farm Security Administration has aided over 33 138 Ohio families since 1935 and borrowers have repaid one third of their loans according to State FSA Director A L Sorenson.
An honorably discharged 20 year old Ernest Brugh fatally shot himself while cleaning a revolver, coroner ruling the death accidental in Zanesville. Funeral services were set for Capt Jefferson R Robinson age 80, retired river boat captain who died unexpectedly in Cleveland.
The Ohio Chamber of Commerce presses a campaign against non-defense federal spending amid a projected $100 billion four year debt. Dr Arch D Schultz warns defense costs raise per worker over $500 annually and urges scientific expenditure cuts and subsidy reductions. Paul J Daugherty cautions social security expansion would raise Ohio taxes by about $100 million yearly.
Governor John W. Bricker told Miami Valley conservationists that stream pollution in the Ohio River Valley must be relieved at a very early date. He blamed slowed river flow from Ohio River dams and noted the problem stems from widespread sewage dumping rather than industrial waste.
In Sheringham Norfolk a pint held to the light by Charley Halsey at The Crown pub prompted a coast guard inspector to act. A speck on the sea led lifeguards to rescue five exhausted Polish airmen from a liferaft.
President Roosevelt said he wants quick authorization and funding for the St. Lawrence waterway project. He cited the power development phases as vital to national defense and urged Congress to act now.
Scholastic journalism students from Columbus and across Ohio attend a two day Journalism Association of Ohio High Schools convention seeking tips to improve school newspapers and yearbooks.
George Browne and William Bioff were found guilty on all three counts for extorting about $550,000 from Warner Brothers Paramount Pictures Twentieth Century Fox and Loew's Inc. The verdict ends a four week trial with executives testifying. U S Attorney Mathias Correa called Bioff a Chicago hoodlum and egomaniac.
Plant explosion at Carbide and Carbon Chemicals Corporation in South Charleston West Virginia killed three men. Superintendent R K Turner discounted sabotage as federal agents and state police investigated. Plant described as the Kanawha River Valley's largest chemical facility suffered comparatively little damage.
Washington officials from the Office of Production Management ordered metal office furniture makers to reduce steel usage by about forty percent as part of wartime production controls.
Stalin declared Germany is bleeding to death and will collapse within months as Soviet troops push Germans back in the Volokolamsk area. He warned a second front in Europe will ease Soviet positions and disadvantage Germany while British forces bolster Iran to counter the Caucasus drive.
Goebbels in Das Reich warns German defeat would unleash inferno of suffering. Stalin claims German losses of 5.5 million in three months, while 1.5 million Russians fell in September. Reports mention Moscow siege, Leningrad, and bleak winter ahead. Churchill strategists study new Western front as Kurusu arrives in Manila.
Washington aims for a Senate vote as administration leaders claim 53 supporters. The measure would permit American merchant ships to carry arms and sail the seas, with House concurrence sought after Senate passage.
Senate Finance Chairman George proposes a broad with holding tax on all personal incomes including investments and business receipts to fund rising expenditures. Treasury suggested an added 15 percent payroll tax collected at the source, but tapping other income sources faces difficulties. House Ways and Means delays action on revenue bill draft.
Lord Halifax, Britain's ambassador, visited ordnance and machine tool plants and warned allied groups that a day of deliverance would come. He said a German move toward peace would be met with no response from Great Britain and that Hitler might seek a peace if he reached Russia's oil supplies.
Temperatures fell toward freezing but stayed above the 29 October reading. The forecast calls for mostly cloudy and continued cold conditions with some snow flurries tonight and Saturday in Columbus.
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