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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 14, 1944
Page
1
Washington AP reports the final session of the 78th Congress began with lawmakers assembling briefly for routine business. House and Senate plans include a federal road bill and rivers and harbors flood control measures, but members remained hesitant to act amid the start of the session and a preplanned recess.
Washington reports outline requests for larger postwar funding across agencies including the Bureau of Docks and the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. Proposals cover social security tax changes, unemployment benefits expansion, crop insurance revival, and continued wartime agencies. The text notes looming congressional sessions after holidays and potential tax and immigration policy actions.
Readable portions reference ancient events and themes with scattered phrases about Adam and historical urgency. The note mentions parcels of clothing and bath items, and a store named Wool. It appears to be a disjointed OCR fragment lacking coherent structure or clear event.
Tokyo radio reported 400 U S carrier planes renewed attacks on Manila Bay as U S and Japanese forces clash across Western Leyte. Chinese troops advanced in Burma while Palau Islet and Leyte battle lines saw heavy casualties. American artillery and air bombardments targeted Japanese concentrations as Marines pressed advance. estimates put Japanese forces on Leyte at 45,000 to 60,000 with ongoing air reinforcements and continued shelling from U S ships and mountain offensives. The effort yielded significant Japanese losses with multiple U S planes confirmed shot down and numerous enemy dead.
Paterson New Jersey reports a strike of 1900 supervisors idling 32 000 to 35 000 workers at the Cyclone engine plant for B 29 Superfortresses. David Newcomb, head of the Wright Aircraft Supervision Association, says the union informed the War Labor Board the men will stay out until the Army takes over. Mor rill named Minnesota chancellor.
Washington reports Undersecretary Patterson says the Army loses 500 tanks and 900 trucks monthly. Eisenhower needs more artillery ammunition than produced, with a target of 3600 tons daily for adequate support. Ammunition production has tripled since January, but overall needs rise faster. Shortages include tent cloth and airborne equipment. Patterson cites no fault but slow gains in meeting requirements.
Cecil B. De Mille refuses a $1 AFRA union assessment aimed at defeating a state right of employment initiative. He risks losing his Monday Lux Radio show if delinquent. AFRA secretary Claude L. McCue says he is on the delinquents list and action will be taken by the federation board.
A tense session at the international business conference saw the Netherlands delegation argue cartels are necessary for expanding business, provoking sharp Indian opposition as private interests across several countries push to regulate industry and trade.
The Port Neches Texas synthetic rubber factory operated by BF Goodrich Co produced 100,000,000 pounds of rubber in the 14 month period ended Nov 5. The company data equates this to the yield of about 14,000,000 rubber trees in a similar span. Four killed in Pittsburgh crash.
Nine year old David Bourbonnais is hospitalized in Seaside after eight days trapped in a 12 inch tool compartment of an abandoned auto trailer. He was starved and exposed, weight dropping from 70 to about 35 pounds. A.B. Pearson, juvenile officer, said a big boy unnamed to the boy sealed him inside on November 5.
The west bound Diplomat express on the Baltimore and Ohio derailed in suburban St Bernard Cincinnati. The diesel engine an express car and a coach were toppled and shaken passengers but no injuries were reported. Engineer Otho Welsch of Chillicothe Ohio and conductor Frank Dugan of Parkersburg West Virginia were in charge.
The Ohio Prison and Parole Commission released 27 inmates on parole and gave conditional releases to two others. Five women at Marysville Reformatory received role dates, including Meigs inmate Pete Wheeler who was paroled for assault with a release date of December 20.
The government may use the Pennsy Railroad Wardwell Yard area in Ohio as a warehouse for surplus war goods. The yard is under lease to Rubber Reserve Co, a Reconstruction Finance Corporation subsidiary, and has been used to store scrap rubber.
An alleged Nazi directive warns troops to shoot comrades and enemy soldiers who attempt to surrender. The broadcasted order, possibly from a Gestapo source, urges immediate action against any trace of dissent or surrender thoughts, claiming must eradicate the cancer before retreat or fall of the front.
71 year old former Army Air Force officer Kaslow escaped from a guardhouse in Alabama, stole a trainer plane with a parachute and uniform, flew west, bailed out in a swamp, and crashed near Hix fins Air Field outside New Orleans. held in Orleans Parish Jail after capture. Kaslow's home is Johnson City New York.
In New York an Army general court martial convicted Bapt Joseph Gould of four violations of the 96th Article of War related to contracts awarded to Cornwall Shipbuilding Co. He received three years at hard labor a dismissal from the service and a $12 000 fine Gould formerly managed boxer James J Braddock.
California rocket workers celebrate a milestone as thousandth event commends their service. Executives and employees from the Pasadena facility join a formal dinner marking a major company achievement.
William J. Gallagher, once a city pensioner earning $2548 a month, moves from a Minneapolis watchman post to run for Congress in Minnesota's Third District. His platform calls for a universal $60 monthly pension for everyone over 60, funded by his campaign.
Canton police report a couple found dead in a residence due to carbon monoxide poisoning from a gas stove. Stark County coroner Dr. Herman Welland said the victims had been dead about 20 hours.
Two German prisoners of war who escaped from a Nebraska camp last July were captured in federal custody after being found hiding in empty oil drums aboard the Spanish ship Castilla Ampudia in South Philadelphia. FBI agents said the discovery followed an intensive search. Separately, the Ohio Congress of Parents and Teachers announced an edit to its publication.
World War II updates describe snowbound Allied advances near Metz and Aachen, with U.S. First and Seventh Armies pushing through villages and facing counterattacks. The Red Army pressed toward Budapest, claiming towns and rail hubs as German defense plans falter. British Eighth Army gains reach the Montone line while Norway reports scorched towns as German retreat continues.
London reports the 41,000 ton German battleship Tirpitz sank in Tromso Fjord after three six ton earthquake bombs dropped by RAF Lancasters. The vessel, a major threat to Allied shipping, capsized shortly after attack in Arctic waters.
In the Ormoc sector a Japanese sniper fatally wounded Frank Prist, 30, a veteran Acme news photographer and fourth war correspondent to die in action since the Philippine campaign began on the 13th. His death marks another casualty in the Pacific front during heavy fighting.
The LeataK house in Frederick Maryland famed from Barbara Friesties waving tale sold today for 5000 dollars. A Frederick group purchased it to operate as a shrine preserving the Whitman era controversy and historic site.
Nineteen new polio cases reported statewide while nineteen plain caskets carried through Cleveland streets for victims of the East Ohio Gas explosions. The burial took place amid reverent ceremony as health authorities noted a decline from the epidemic peak.
Republican leaders voiced support for a revived federal crop insurance proposal to share risk with farmers against floods droughts and pests. Senator Hope said he hopes Congress passes the legislation before Christmas while Speaker Rayburn scheduled it for early session consideration.
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