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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 26, 1942
Page
1
Reports describe heavy Soviet advances around Stalingrad as German troops retreat under relentless pressure. Casualties and prisoners mount with about 238,000 Germans killed or captured and 140,000 wounded, while Russians seize towns along the Don and Chir Rivers and close the Volga corridor.
Brigadier General Asa N. Duncan chief of air staff in Europe is missing in action after his plane was forced down at sea off the northern coast of France on November 17. He became chief last July, and his loss marks another high ranking general unaccounted for since wartime air operations began.
A bipartisan House committee urged a six month delay in nationwide gasoline rationing while rubber administrator William M. Jeffers pressed ahead with Dec 1 effective rationing to conserve tires. Rep Sum mers criticized federal controls and urged voluntary conservation as senators pressed for fuel shortage investigations in the western region.
Truman endorses centralizing control of materials and civilian manpower under a new office of war mobilization. He backs a stronger war production board led by an executive accountable to the President. Bills in the House and Senate align on this structure.
A five day hunt for two year old Terry McKee ended with his discovery in a Montrose house. He was found with his 20 year old half sister Cynthia after vanishing from Pasadena where Evelyn McKee, mother of 11, had just secured a divorce and custody for nine months.
Ohio public schools must sell 25 percent of their typewriters to the government for military use in response to a War Production Board request. The order applies to student business courses as well.
Ohio births expected to set a record this year says Dr. R H Markwith state health director. He notes 113 036 babies born in ten months and cites 122 456 births last year and 114 895 in 1940 as benchmarks.
An Office of Price Administration official says fuel oil rations, already lean, will be cut further with the exact amount and method to be announced soon. Spokesmen for Leon Henderson decline comment but petroleum changes are expected in a few days.
Helsinki radio reported that Finland will continue to repay its war debt to the United States in installments as they fall due, as long as Finland can obtain United States dollars for the purpose.
The Don Bend offensive by the Red Army surprises Hitler as Allied actions in Africa tighten. Western reports suggest heavy troop movements and staged retreats around Stalingrad to trap Axis forces, with Luftwaffe redeployments reacting to British advances. The piece questions Nazi claims of success and warns of strategic pressure across Europe and the Mediterranean.
A Marine patrol deep in Guadalcanal jungles killed 70 Japanese and captured five machine guns with only two of their own men wounded. The action occurred at the Mambulo village area along the Matani kau River on the island’s southwestern flank.
Captain Joseph J. Foss U S M C of Sioux Falls bagged four more zeros to raise his total to fifteen enemy aircraft. Lieutenant Jack E. Conger of Des Moines shot down one Zero and crashed another, parachuting to safety after a head on pass. In fierce Papuan fighting, Allied air power pounded Japanese coastal positions as 100 planes attacked with heavy ground support. Darin was attacked at night by eighteen bombers, downed by Kitty Hawk interceptors with no material damage reported.
The Ohio Bureau of Unemployment Compensation reports October benefits paid fell to 472 906 dollars, the first sub half million month in four years. Administrator H C Atkinson attributes the decline to higher employment from the war effort.
Wallington N J report says Japanese sailors on rafts after the Solomons engagement declined rescue offers from a U S destroyer. Sailor William Stachula recalled the reply To go say no and described the incident as told yesterday in Wallington.
Walter McClain age 44 supervisor and elephant trainer for Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey circus died in an accidental loading accident in Jacksonville Florida yesterday while assisting with equipment unloading.
Ohio's education director reports a state committee studies wartime school attendance and labor issues. Focuses on possible financial losses to districts under the foundation program and a method to prevent them. Relief may be sought from the General Assembly, with hill counties highlighted as needing aid. U S Employment Service to register graduates and dropouts midyear.
Cleveland officials warn a 200000 pounds weekly meat shortage due to current price and quota ceilings. The city meat distribution committee reports local packers cut output and ship meat elsewhere, urging Mayor Lausche to seek OPA action. The figure equals about a fifth of a pound per person each week.
Proponents told a congressional subcommittee that they failed to win NAS approval for a pilot plant due to unfavorable NAS subcommittee reports including industry reps. They said the War Production Board withheld support but that the Bureau of Mines has begun testing the alumina formula.
Waukegan Illinois police report four month old Gary Botsford abducted from a buggy Wednesday was found alive and well at the Zion home of Mrs. Anne Farrell. Farrell told authorities she took the child but offered no reason.
Four German prisoners of war escaped a slow moving train near Oakland California yesterday for a brief period of freedom before they were recaptured. All said they came from General Rommel's Corps.
The Justice Department announced an indictment against the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company and 11 subsidiaries with 16 officials and others for conspiring to monopolize food trade. The two count case carries up to one year in prison and a $5,000 fine. the government says the scheme harmed manufacturers processors wholesalers and independent retailers across major trade areas. A P officials defended the methods as competitive and popular with consumers and farmers.
Admin H. C. Atkinson warned that the War Manpower Commission is creating a streamlined Ohio program that bypasses state government and could endanger state employment services. He said area directors would report directly to Washington, reviving the historic fight over states' rights as federal control expands.
Governor Bricker proclaims December 7 Pearl Harbor anniversary as Blue Star Mothers Day in Ohio and urges residents to pay tribute to war mothers statewide.
World War II updates report the Stalingrad siege steady but contested as Soviet attacks face countermeasures. In Africa, fighting intensifies toward Tunis and Bizerte with Allied forces building for a major Tunisia assault. Air power dominates skies as German and Italian positions collapse in Tunisia and Eastern Algeria amid Allied offensives and strategic talk from Eden.
Wendell L. Willkie told Canadians that the United Nations must define their war aims and reach a common understanding of what they fight for. He warned that without a shared purpose the sacrifices of war would be for nothing and urged a grand coalition and global strategy.
Washington officials said the United States does not plan to draw on Canada's 300 million bushel feed grain supply. They attributed reports of imports to a Wickard reference and noted tariffs and trade barriers prevent cross border movement.
President Roosevelt urges a Thanksgiving day of prayer with special services at the White House. American troops overseas and at sea will receive traditional turkey and other fare when possible, while Britain plans American style observances to honor U S forces.
SOUTH BEND Indiana The United States Army has saved Harry Peter Stoffels 36 former wage hour inspector of the Department of Labor from a three year prison term Stoffels former Oshkosh Wis police commissioner who was convicted in federal court here in October of soliciting and accepting a 200 bribe passed physical examinations in Toledo Tuesday and was sworn into the Army St Joseph County selective service board No 4 disclosed yesterday
President Carlos Arroyo Del Rio of Ecuador told the Senate there would be a forthright effort to cooperate with the United States in the struggle for democracy. He spoke as a guest of President Roosevelt, urging that the voices of all citizens in the hemisphere be heard as one.
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