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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 22, 1944
Page
11
A Portland report says youths and teens carrry out mass shoplifting of cashmere sweaters beads and gloves. Police describe the thefts as casual personal use rather than resale and estimate thousands of dollars stolen.
The War Food Administration recommends shifting most of the 1945 spring pig crop increase to Corn Belt states west of the Mississippi. Hog production fell in 1944 due to reduced feed supplies with a 20 percent cut urged for Ohio and Indiana and an eight percent cut for Illinois.
The War Production Board asked tin producers to raise output in Q1 1945 to reach a goal of 900000 tons for the three months. It calls for about 150000 tons in the initial period, marking an increase over the prior quarter.
Thanksgiving meals will be served in every mess in the United Kingdom and on the continent for nearly all troops. Religious services are planned at each post with Ambassador John G. Winant reading the proclamation in Westminster Abbey and Bishop Henry B. Hobson delivering the sermon in London.
Allied forces report capturing at least 601,089 German prisoners since D-Day across western France. The tally reflects ongoing collapse of German defenses as armies advance toward the border with Germany.
Forty seven Army officers and several Ohioans receive citations for service during World War II including a Purple Heart on Lt. Fos and others amid sales tax dispute brought before the Supreme Court. The case involves two grocery chains and a $435,000 tax claim denied by the War Department.
The Army investigates Jan’s complaint that Air Force Col. Elliott Roosevelt intervened in an early morning Broadway taxi brawl and helped four GIs depart before MPs arrived. Max Huddle, the dance floor manager, said an officer urged to keep quiet due to the President’s son involvement.
The AFL resolutions committee debated a proposal to recognize as unfair all products from anti-labor states Arkansas and Florida. The measure, from the International Typographical Union, cites state amendments banning the closed shop as reflecting hostility toward organized labor.
President Roosevelt faced questions after ministers in Glendale demanded an apology for alleged shocking profanity while voting at Hyde Park Town Hall on November 7. The Time Magazine report claimed the president muttered a profane remark as the voting lever moved.
Moscow reports a renewed Soviet push southwest of Ungvar and near Miskolc and Hatvan as troops push toward the Miskolc rail junction. German and Hungarian losses mount with Verpelet seized and 13 tanks lost in Latvia counterattacks, while the siege of Budapest continues with no new update.
A formal CIO approval request was prepared to renew the Political Action Committee and reject third party principles. The convention adopted resolutions condemning anti Semitism and urging outreach to workers and unorganized groups, plus Hatch Act revision for 3 million government workers to engage in normal political activity.
War era reports say Italy bound raiders strike Germany from the south while Allied bombers hit Ruhr targets. In Ohio, Bell Telephone workers face disruption as a union official says operations may resume only if War Labor Board orders change. Nomination news centering on George H Mead dominates Washington dispatches.
Dr. James Whitcomb Brougher Sr of Glendale Calif and associates urge President Roosevelt to apologize for a magazine's report that a voting machine jammed on election day and the President allegedly muttered This thing won t work.
Washington reports Senator Guy M. Gillette of Iowa will join the surplus property disposal board before retirement. He plans a speech urging use of farm materials for industrial needs and opposing scrapping rapid synthetic rubber growth. Board duties may involve up to 100 billion in surplus assets, with policies favoring private enterprise, small business, foreign trade, and broad distribution of surplus goods.
Allied troops push along the Vosges front driving toward Strasbourg as the 7th Army breaks through northern defenses. British and American forces push past the Saar frontier and press toward Aachen while Metz resistance wanes.
Allied forces report the Ninth Army within 25 miles of the Rhine and near the Roer, as they envelop towns in 24 hours. British units reach outskirts of Baarle and press toward Venlo gateway to the Ruhr while another column tightens around a Maas River bridgehead. Strasbourg fall and Saverne Gap noted amid German resistance. French advances near Belfort and Sarralbourg cited.
Reported battlefield actions show U S Ninth Army advancing over two miles into German positions near French towns while Third Army fights toward Metz and the Reich frontier. Berlin frontline resistance weakens as Allied air supportharbors gains across Aachen and the Vosges.
Grand Jury in Clark County indicts Sheriff Niles E. Young and campaign manager DeWitt Fargnment on bribery charges. Judge Golden C. Davis noted the case after gambling losses were discussed. Also mentions owners of the Silver Dollar Club and a political sign in Toledo as well as crop goal talks in Columbus with farm leaders and War Food Administration.
At a special City Waterworks meeting Junior Jo Bradshaw resigned as clerk of the cemment department and C D Ball, the defeated Democratic county clerk candidate, was elected to succeed Bradshaw. Mrs Camden Hoge succeeds Mrs Bradshaw as clerk.
The Air Forces disclosed the development of a robot bomb that could be used if needed. Maj. Gen. Bennet Myers said it had been tested since Oct 11 and could be built with German and American parts. The weapon mirrors the Nazi V-1 but is described as more refined and readily deployable.
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