26 Oct 1943
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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 26, 1943
Page
1
Rabaul reports show 311 Japanese planes wrecked in daylight raids by General MacArthur’s men in the Southwest Pacific. Allied bases and communications disrupted as Japanese retreat increases.
Emperor Hirohito and Premier Tojo addressed the Diet with a sober outlook as Allied air losses mount. Communiqués report nearly 300 enemy aircraft destroyed over 11 days from Oct 12 to 24, with Rabaul and Kahili raids inflicting heavy damage on Japanese defenses.
In Ohio, over 000 housewives representing about 2 000 000 residents signed pledges to resist black market practices as the Office of Price Administration expands its program. Labor boards and advisory committees are being mobilized, with ongoing surveys showing cost of living reductions tied to regulatory compliance. A separate move allows fuel oil rationed regions to stock more stove and fuel supplies for dealers meeting 1941 42 sales thresholds. Secretary Knox announced Sandusky Ohio will name a new United States frigate, as a Navy honor.
Wendell L. Willkie criticizes the Roosevelt administration for power hunger and poor spending in a Reader's Digest piece. He warns mismanagement could prolong the war and threaten peace, citing cluttered desks and stifled initiative in Washington. Give to the USO.
President Roosevelt, down with grippe since Friday, is reported by White House aides to be feeling a good deal better. His fever has disappeared and Secretary Hassett says he is getting along first rate.
Vice Admiral Kin kai d described the Kiska evacuation as costly to the Japanese. He said several submarines were sunk by American destroyers as the garrison left by sea. He estimated many submarines were sunk but could not quantify, noting heavy potential casualties if U.S. troops had landed amid stronger beach defenses. He credited the submarine evacution with saving many combat units and observed surprise at the Japanese exit.
New York police probe the murder of Mrs Patricia Burton Lonergan an heiress to a brewery fortune and estranged wife of RCAF cadet Wayne Lonergan whose beaten body was found in her East Side apartment.
Miami reports 36 of 88 killed when two tankers collided off Florida. Bodies to be buried at sea aboard a warship en route to a burial site in the Atlantic. Read Admiral W R Munroe announces funeral services for unidentified victims. In Missouri, WAC members at Fort Leonard Wood perform a postal packing activity named Postal Packin Mama.
Repatriated British and American POWs report German morale sagging under intensified Allied bombardment of cities and war plants. Clergyman and veteran G R Grundy cites fear over Britain’s likely victory, while gunner W McLoughlan recalls the Focke Wulf factory being flattened in minutes amid mass casualties.
Wayne Longergan 26, an RCAF cadet and son of a brewery heiress, maintained innocence after a three hour police grilling in Toronto. NYPD labeled him a likely suspect in the death of Patricia Longergan 22, found slain in her Beekman Hill apartment, a heavy brass candlestick nearby.
Moscow conference enters its eighth session as diplomats refine decisions from Hull Eden Molotov talks. Officials report a prior Hull Stalin meeting, details undisclosed.
Critics of the Connally postwar policy resolution seek to pin down strong interpretations to guide the President in peace negotiations. A bloc of at least 13 senators faces overwhelming opposition to adding a demand for use of military force against aggressors.
President Roosevelt rebutted charges that the government is a haven for draft dodgers. He cited 3.2 percent of about 2.98 million full time civilian employees with occupational deferments, detailing deferment figures by department and noting continuous release of draft-age men for military service.
Yugoslav partisans captured the steel making city of Vares Maydan 20 miles north of Sarajevo, eroding Germany’s last heavy industry center in Bosnia. In another action near the Save River, Partisans moved into Breko but retreated as 20,000 German troops and bombing formations from Serbia counterattacked.
Representative Andresen of Minnesota leads a dispute in the farm bloc over margarine taxes and color margarine restrictions. Chairman Fulmer of South Carolina introduces a bill to lift levies including a ten cent per pound tax. Andresen cites a wartime truce with dairy farmers that forbade such moves.
Pope Pius XII has intensified efforts to achieve world wide peace following talks with British American and French envoys to the Holy See, according to Vatican radio reports from London.
Mrs Grace Schneider spoke about telling a five year old son his father Earle Caffray Schneider commanded the Dorado submarine is presumed lost. A Navy telegram arrived as Butch the child asked to see his father’s Silver Star photo. She wondered how other wives explain the danger to their children.
A red haired woman is shot six times and dumped from an automobile on a rain swept street near the Capitol. A man described as the killer fled into crowded Washington. a witness saw a man removing a woman from a car and fleeing as police arrived. The victim, about 39, wore pearls and a gold ring with a blue stone. no ID found.
German war planes roamed near London last night triggering air raid sirens for the ninth time in 10 nights but did not cross the city. Southeast England and East Anglia saw a few raiders dropping bombs at two locations with no casualties and only minor damage reported.
More than 45,000 soft coal miners across eight states remain on strike as a WLB decision on a proposed wage contract looms. Chairman Davis filed a tentative opinion for board submission as fresh walkouts disrupt production. Some miners resume work, others stay away, with varied turnout across Ohio Alabama California Pennsylvania and West Virginia.
A World War II dispatch from New Guinea reports Major Edward Cragg of Greenwich Connecticut protected B 25 formations over Rabaul, scoring his second victory of the day while one P 38 engine was damaged by a Zero. Lt John C Smith of Portsmouth Ohio increased his victory total to three. In Madrid Jean Barthelet chief of the Vichy police for southwestern France was shot to death on October 23 by an unknown assailant.
The House signals passage of a bill to reorder induction by nationwide priority single men without dependents to married men with children, placing fathers at the bottom and expanding Maj. Gen. Hershey's authority. Debate hints at floor amendments and a Luce crafted plan to shift 1-A deferments to 4-F replacements, delaying fathers' draft.
Four Russian armies advanced from the Dnieper Bend toward the Bug River in a marked retreat by German forces. Allied units in Italy pushed toward Rome with several towns overrun, and Fifth Army secured Raviscanina Francolse Rocchetta near Isernia. Eighth Army expanded from central Italy to the Adriatic capturing Bojano Spineto Petrella and Calata.
A German air attache in Stockholm said a Nazi plane shot down a Swedish air transport last Friday killing 13 people including an American. Swedish press reacted strongly as the Office of War Information quoted him saying the action was a mistake and expressing deep regret.
A British communique says Cos in the Dodecanese was successfully evacuated under pressure from a German sea and air borne counter attack. The island near Turkey was occupied in a surprise move after Italy’s surrender. A separate item reports a sharp San Jose area earthquake near 50 miles south of San Francisco.
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