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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1941
Page
1
News from Tehran and Moscow details Japan's cabinet resignation amid empire disputes and possible shift toward war with the United States. German advances near Moscow and Soviet relocation talks heighten global tension as Tokyo weighs peace against broader conflict.
Senator Pepper declares the United States will surely fight Hitler and urges immobilizing Japan and clearing the seas of Japanese, German, Italian and French fleets. He says the clash with Hitler is as certain as U S existence, but declines to comment on sending an American expeditionary force.
A 16 year old boy from Alexandria Virginia confessed to police that he shot and killed a contractor in Maryland while fleeing with two juvenile girls in the victim’s car. He said the man known as Brown Wing tried to assault the girls aged 14 and 15, prompting the fatal shooting and later the body was hidden beside Route 1 near the Maryland Pennsylvania border.
The AFL delegates reelected Edward Flore of Buffalo to the vice presidency by 374 to 421, denying George E. Browne another term as vice president and council member as Browne faces extortion charges in New York with Willie Bioff. Browne leads the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employers and Browne’s defeat follows a lopsided ballot in Seattle.
Washington reports Justice William O. Douglas, the youngest member of the Supreme Court, reaches his 43rd birthday today.
Louis J Christian 21 a steel worker surrendered Wednesday ending the search for the hit skip car that killed Richard Baxter 16 last Thursday night in Canton He told police he drove the car and will be arraigned in municipal court Friday on leaving the scene of an accident Headlight glass at the scene matched a 1941 General Motors car from Stark County registration effort.
Ohio liquor sales for the first eight months of the year rose 19.76 percent over the same period in 1940, per the State Department of Liquor Control. Net profit and gallonage taxes reached 12,155,972 dollars, 1,623,095 more than 1940 and 2,708,245 more than 1939, while operating expenses fell 28,159 dollars.
Flames ripped through the Florence Pottery plant in Mt Gilead injuring and killing. Fire Chief Harold C. Johnstone, 66, collapsed at the wheel of his car as he prepared to leave the scene. He served as a councilman in a town of about 2,000 residents.
At a Lima rally Ohio Democrats denounce Governor Bricker's administration accusing it of hoarding local funds in the state treasury. Auditor Ferguson says there is no disgrace in a surplus, but in keeping local money unused for communities. The crowd weighed gubernatorial hopefuls with Ferguson leading a preferential vote.
Six hundred University of Georgia students delivered an ultimatum to Governor Eugene Talmadge at the Capitol Plaza demanding removal of higher education from politics. They traveled 70 miles from Athens in a 108 car motorcade after learning the governor had a speaking engagement in South Georgia.
Col. C. W. Goble state selective service director asked the Mercer County Draft Board at Celina to reconsider 75 men deferred for agricultural work. State headquarters deemed Mercer’s 268 occupational deferments unusually high but found no irregularity or partiality after an investigation.
Farm foreclosures fell 30 percent in the last fiscal year to 18,133 from 25,861 the year before, as improved farm income and FCA credit facilities enabled borrowers to reamortize and pay off old loans.
Well informed House sources report Republicans warming to Roosevelt policies and likely voting to repeal the neutrality act ban on arming merchant ships. The final roll call is expected to show a substantial GOP majority, despite dissent from six Foreign Affairs Committee Republicans.
Sandusky report states Plum Brook ordnance plant now pays over 325000 weekly to 5300 workers and expects peak employment of 6000 within the next month, Capt. Frank Ray announcing.
A major Detroit steel plant with 8 000 workers was shut by a wildcat strike, as union leaders and management clashed over a wage deal that critics decry as too low. In Pascagoula Mississippi, Ingalls Shipbuilding workers were urged to resume operations after three days idle.
In Pennsylvania soft coal fields tension rises as CIO United Mine Workers push for a closed shop for 43 000 miners in captive steel company mines. Negotiations in Washington show deadlock before the National Mediation Board after a 30 day truce. UMW President John L. Lewis stands firm.
Luther C. Jones a 67 year old Thurman farmer died at Holzer Hospital from head injuries after being kicked by a horse a week earlier. The death was reported by the Gallia staff special.
New York widow Mary A. Saxton leaves more than 20000 dollars to the Convent St Mary of the Springs in Columbus Ohio under her will.
Ohio registration on Oct. 16, 1940 drew 840000 men 21 to 36 for 330 selective service boards as the armed forces grew from 355000 to 1 580 775 with a 2 ocean navy. Ohio planned nearly 100000 service by month’s end and 45000 were released from Camp Shelby as the 27th Division started home.
German high command claims Kalinin and Kaluga in German hands as Moscow defense line reels after two weeks of intense bombing and armored assault. London sources say crisis looms but gains in last 24 hours are limited. Russia reports deteriorated west front and heavy German reinforcements nearby.
The Peruvian Embassy protests to the State Department over the seizure in New York of 1.234 million dollars worth of war planes. The planes were bought from American factories by the refugee governments of Norway and The Netherlands and later sold to Peru.
Leonore Leachey a 28 year old former Gallipolis resident and parole violator from the Marysville Reformatory was arrested today and held by police for return to prison.
Petroleum Coordinator Harold J. Ickes favors modifying an order that bans gasoline shipments to Ohio from eastern states. He reportedly recommended allowing gasoline recovered during lubricating oil production from the Appalachian District to move west of the 78th meridian. Ohio marketers weigh the impact on East imports while the overall embargo remains to protect supplies in the East.
Columbus reports the Ohio Supreme Court, in a five to two decision, dismissed a lawsuit by Arnett Harbage challenging mileage payments to state legislators. Senate and house clerks prepared to mail $40,174.80 in mileage checks, asserting no constitutional question existed over the payments beyond the $2,000 annual salary.
Safety Director Roy B. Weed urged Columbus city council to add 132 officers and 10 police cruisers to handle traffic during parades football games and higher automobile numbers. He estimated annual wages at 240000 for the expanded force, raising the department total from 257 officers.
Six young men were killed when an orchestra van collided with a cattle truck near Owatonna Minnesota in fog before dawn. The victims include Edmund G Sievers leader of the Red Sievers orchestra.
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