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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 23, 1944
Page
1
American forces report smashing a new attempt to reinforce on Leyte Island. U S fighter pilots destroyed or damaged four troop freighters and heavy barges off Ormoc on Leyte west coast. Carrier strikes across Luzon left multiple ships burning.
Washington reports a total of 263 casualties among Japanese American service members notified to next of kin in relocation camps. WRA says the figure underestimates true losses as many evacuees left camps or never registered, while naval air operations struck fuel dumps and airfields amid broader Leyte and Omura fighting.
The nation marks its third wartime Thanksgiving with thoughts of absent loved ones in the armed forces. GIs abroad and sailors at sea receive traditional dinners when possible, while in Europe and the United Kingdom mess halls prepare turkey with cranberry sauce and sweet potatoes. Catholic services are held at Notre Dame in Boston and the Cathedral in Anga. chaplains conduct Protestant and Jewish services in Paris. Families of wounded overseas visit Cushing Hospital in Framingham. Military police guard German prisoners at Dunkirk, N. Y., and a prisoner baked pumpkin pie for MPs before declining a German version.
Two thousand Marines and sailors return to San Diego from the Pacific after 18 months overseas. The transport carried troops from Southern Germany and families including many children. Debates continue over ballot access for Edmundson in a separate UMW case as a court declines to block an election.
Workers at Chesapeake and Ohio and apprentices staged a sitdown strike at a Leyte airbase amid a dispute over Manila and Corregidor repair work. The action, said to involve locomotives and repair allocations, occurred Sunday as tensions rose during wartime operations.
A B17 bomber crew abandoned near Marion Delaware, then a crewless plane flew about 220 miles before crashing near Isabella Minnesota. Public Relations Office at Sioux City Army Air Base identified the aircraft as a Flying Fortress in tentative terms.
In Rome the Allied headquarters rejected a Soviet demand to suppress the serialized Life of Lenin pamphlet. They said censorship would be undesirable unless tied to military security and upheld freedom of expression for the Italian people. The Russians were informed of the stance and Moscow was labeled an enemy of Russia and a fascist.
Washington reports Ihmanls ave purchased 42 million dollars in war bonds as part of the sixth war loan drive. The national individual quota stands at five billion dollars. The Treasury notes the total includes various security sales to corporations and individuals as a broad plan to insure crops against losses and extend to grains and produce. The bill, lacking a price tag, awaits Senate action after House approval.
British author P G Wodehouse was conditionally released last night after two days in custody on charges of aiding the Germans through broadcasts in 1941. The case stemmed from wartime broadcasts attributed to him while in France.
A new head of an Oklahoma agriculture group was named yesterday in San Diego. The selection places Bierchuan Elmer Thomas at the helm, succeeding the prior chair, as the committee and party leaders reorganize. The report notes the shift amid broader policy changes and committee chair appointments.
Plymouth marks a grand Thanksgiving with prayers from First Church and a radio greeting exchange for service members. A Coast Guard band provides music as 30 citizens perform tableaux, noting 18 in service, 17 missing, and three prisoners, in an observance recalling early Pilgrim feasts.
American First and Ninth Armies push toward the Ruhr as Eschweiler falls after days of brutal combat on the Cologne Plain. German V rockets bomb rear areas while Metz and Mulhouse in Northeastern France are reported cleared of German resistance.
Report notes a growing tire shortage impacting transportation. Officials say conversion of labor and machinery may be required to meet wartime production needs, with emphasis on sustaining essential supply chains amid economic strain.
War dispatches report more than 3,500 refugees crossing into Basel as German counterattacks falter. American Ninth Army presses east of Gellenkirchen, capturing high ground near the Roer and approaching Julich and Linnich. British forces breach a Maas River bridgehead at Roermond and near Venlo while Metz falls to Allied pincer.
The 20 Republican members of the Ohio Senate will caucus in Columbus on November 30 to elect officers for the senate including president pro tem majority floor leader and clerk. The caucus was called by Sen Tom Jones of Meigs County, ranking member of the upper house.
Ceeee Reese, 46, was condemned to die in the electric chair by Common Pleas Judge Joseph M. Clifford after jurors found him guilty of murdering his wife Lavina, 49, and their 12 year old son Homer in their Reynoldsburg home last March. Reese told the court he was satisfied.
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