20 Oct 1942
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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1942
Page
1
German dive bombers and fighters renewed a full scale assault on Stalingrad as a weather thaw returned, after rain and cold kept aerial activity light previously. Red Army headquarters reported the Russians held their lines unbroken for the last 36 hours.
Australian soldiers are fighting the Japanese in China, disclosed by External Affairs Minister H. V. Evatt. Other dispatches describe Soviet defenses around Stalingrad, Red Army counterattacks along the Volga, and Axis efforts in the Caucasus with Allied air actions continuing across the Mediterranean and North Africa.
A light ad column notes the value of long distance Want Ads likening "George" to the Iron Mike automatic pilot. An example shows an electric refrigerator for sale at 990 Chestnut St Nelsonville with a sale completed to a party in Athens, illustrating effective distance advertising.
Mail from mothers and protest petitions flood lawmakers as they debate the draft age bill. Senators plan a record vote on Lee amendment to restrict alcohol and activity near posts while the House bill allows students to finish current year.
Admiral Ernest J. King, head of naval operations, says World War II will be long and hard with no cheap path to victory. He warns there will be no miracle machines to defeat Japan and notes the two ocean war, a growing Navy, and rising personnel as ships and destroyers come into service.
The War Production Board says peace time workers displaced by the wartime shift to production are returning to work. In eight leading civilian industries employment is now normal or better in most cases, indicating a broad recovery in the job market.
The News Chronicle dispatch from Ankara says Albanian mountaineers have proclaimed an independent Albania and are now fighting Italian troops on three mountain fronts.
The War Production Board ordered trash collectors in Ohio areas over 25 000 population to seize and separate household tin cans. Housewives were told to prepare cans by removing labels washing them cutting ends and flattening.
Cleveland will seek draft exemptions for police and fire officers deemed essential to city protection if they are likely to be called into the selective service.
A London based observer argues that Allied air superiority is pivotal to crushing Hitler within about 12 months. He cites the need for reinforced bomber forces to sustain raids like Cologne and to deter German defenses, enabling a successful land campaign with Russian aid.
Washington AP Don ald M Nelson, chairman of the War Production Board, announced that wholesalers retailers and manufacturers will have inventories of finished consumer goods placed under strict control in the near future. Merchants may not hold more merchandise in stock than their average in the same quarters of 1939 1940 and 1941. Forms detailing permissible inventories will be issued as soon as possible.
Second Lieut. Lawrence W. Hunter 27 of New Marshfield perished in a four engine bomber crash near Des Moines New Mexico among 11 crew members. He attended Parks Air College and Ohio University, worked at Athens Flooring Co., and belonged to Elks Lodge and Kiwanis. Survivors include parents two brothers and three sisters with funeral details to be announced.
Lorain Ohio A 37 year old Theodore Howell of Avon Lake was killed while changing a flat tire after being woke to drive a sick child to Cleveland hospital The crash also left the child Gerald Morrow and father Sam Morrow involved in the emergency transport The driver said blinding lights from another car obscured his view in the late night incident
Philadelphia report quotes Lessing J. Rosenwald, conservation chief of the War Production Board, calling the national newspaper scrap drive a success with no current steel mill closings. He praises the newspapers but warns against a postwar let-down as scrap collection remains a continuing wartime issue.
Millard A. Notestine 45 pleaded guilty in federal court to embezzling 258 from post office funds last February 11 while postmaster at Louistown Logan County. Judge Mell G Underwood placed Notestine on probation for two years. Judge Underwood fined John E. Gills of Gallipolis 200 and costs for failure to report sugar disposal under the internal revenue act. he pleaded guilty.
Dr Helen Mitchell principal nutritionist for the federal security agency urges home-makers to rise early to provide a proper breakfast and pack lunch boxes for war workers in the family in Detroit.
A peak of 48,421,605 gross tons of iron ore was piled at furnaces and Lake Erie docks on October 1, enough to keep blast furnaces running six months at the current rate, according to reports from Cleveland.
The city observes its first meatless Tuesday with restaurants hotels and homes in New York City adopting plant based menus and meals aiming to reduce meat consumption.
Secretary of the Navy Knox said the Japanese had not yet used their maximum force in the Solomon Islands battle. He noted ongoing naval bombardments and increasing land based Navy planes while American ships and air power press the Guadalcanal campaign.
Ohio Senator Taft indicated he would favor an amendment to defer 18-year-olds from draft to allow continued schooling in technical fields. He proposed competitive exams for exemptions with government funding for students who cannot finance education. Those not exempted would be drafted.
Twenty four former German American Bund leaders were convicted of conspiring to resist the draft. Prosecutors said the defendants favored Germany over the United States. Each faces up to five years in prison and a $10 000 fine. The jury, six men and six women, returned the verdict after calm deliberations.
London AP reports A V Alexander the First Lord of the Admiralty says Britain has an actual record of attacks resulting in the sinking or damaging over 530 Axis submarines since the war began.
United States Maritime Commission head Admiral Emory Land labeled union organizers profiteers and needle boys as his pet targets for the duration. He urged typewriter strategists to defer to the President and military experts and warned profiteers would be captured, while leaving unclear who needle boys are.
Four German soldiers were killed and 29 wounded when an unidentified submarine torpedoed the Deutschland ferry with 1,000 Nazi troops aboard. The attack occurred while the vessel traveled from Sassnitz to Trelleborg, Sweden, across the Baltic Sea.
In Ironton probate court Mrs Alma Bruce 4 was found insane and her mother Mrs Letha Bunyan 74 was declared sane after both were charged with first degree murder for the fatal shooting of Warren Bruce 37, Alma’s husband.
Japanese leader forecasts a long war after U S bombardment and ammo depots hit. Allied air and naval operations write of strikes on Buin Bougainville and Kiska. Australian New Guinea fighting continues near Kokoda as U S planes burn fuel stores. Tokyo asserts a long war while mulling a possible general counterattack and a second front strategy.
Congress poised to approve the largest tax bill in history as the first wartime revenue measure. It would raise about 25 billion dollars in federal taxes for 1943 with roughly 8 billion in new revenues and add 50 million to the Treasury next month for Navy excise taxes.
Two American merchant ships were sunk by torpedoes in the western Atlantic, killing seven sailors. Rear Admiral Emory S. Land warned the submarine menace would worsen as winter approached during the Maritime Commission remarks at the Investment Bankers Association of America.
A House committee urges a new Office of War Mobilization to control War Production Board, Selective Service, War Manpower, and Office of Price Administration. It argues current agencies mismanage materials and cause conflicting orders, risking the war effort ten months after Pearl Harbor.
London reports the U S Navy air force from Iceland claimed its first U boat kill. A Catalina flying boat bombed a submarine causing the crew of 52 to abandon ship and board an Icelandic fishing boat before an Allied destroyer captured them. The Air Ministry noted the Germans were seen in the conning tower as the sub sank.
Cleveland Mayor Frank J. Lausche summons chain store grocers and coffee wholesalers to a conference to reduce inconveniences for buyers and clarify seller positions amid a citywide coffee shortage.
Reuters filed from the Italian Frontier dateline that an Italian Alpine regiment mutinied in northern Italy when ordered to the Russian front.
Beverly Hills California May Robson 78 a veteran Australia born stage and screen character actress died at her home following long frail illness.
Reports say Queen Elizabeth and King George VI left Balmoral for southern England with their daughters to prepare for a visit by Mrs. Franklin D Roosevelt. No official confirmation yet, but sources expect Mrs. Roosevelt to arrive soon and an initial announcement upon landing.
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