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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1941
Page
1
Washington reports that the new Supply Priorities and Allocations Board orders all available manpower and machines to defense needs. Roosevelt pledges more defense funding as the board outlines cutting non essential production to boost military output and stabilize civilian supplies.
Columbus notices Hartman becomes Ohio defense training director after resigning from the U S Office of Education. He aims to run a program to make Ohio one of the nation's outstanding training centers for defense workers and will standardize instruction facilities across communities in need of defense orders.
Athens officials report $1,009.70 in fines and licenses for August, the largest monthly total in the police court. About 60 cases involved state automobile violations. local traffic fines were $14 and a bowling alley license brought $22.50. The council raised the police chief salary from $175 to $200 monthly effective October 1 and plans a civil service exam. Health board noted a state promise of another nurse, with a nutrition specialist to join. staffing will total six by January 1942.
Logan announces the death of Lyle Schultz age 29 after a brief influenza illness. He is survived by wife Constance Schultz and one son Theodore James along with two brothers, one sister, and his parents. A Masonic member, his funeral will be Saturday at 2 PM at United Brethren Church conducted by Rev. White with burial in Oak Grove Cemetery.
Agnes B. Dickinson, a disbarred Columbus attorney, will have her appeal of the embezzlement conviction heard by the appellate court on September 30.
Senator LaFollette and Senator Clark assailed the revenue bill as unjust and ineffective during a finance committee debate. They opposed reducing exemptions from 2000 to 1500 for married and 800 to 750 for single filers, warning it would broaden the tax base and burden low earners while failing to solve federal fiscal problems.
CHILLICOTHE Ross County. Twin District School employed two superintendents today. W. J. Beoddy formerly of Wakefield Scioto County schools asserted a two year contract signed last May. Myron E. Gire argued he remained superintendent under a four year contract signed last September.
London reports an air ministry tabulation on the second anniversary of Britain and France declaring war on Germany. Axis losses are set at 8 020 planes while British losses total 3 089 planes.
The Senate committee heard that 20,000 surplus railway tank cars are available to move oil from Texas fields to the Atlantic Seaboard, with J. J. Pelley of the Association of American Railroads estimating capacity for six to eight million barrels per month. He noted a decline in tank car use despite rising oil transport. Western and eastern railroads agreed to a 50 percent cut in crude oil freight rates amid curfews on gasoline sales in seaboard areas, and West Virginia ordered a statewide 7 pm to 7 am gasoline sales curfew.
Nineteen members of a German espionage ring go on trial in Brooklyn before Federal Judge Mortimer W. Byers. Fourteen others have admitted guilt and await sentencing. The government alleges the ring transmitted ship movements and U S naval and armament developments via couriers. Conviction could bring up to 20 years.
Tayfer Matson aged 27 son of Mr and Mrs Henry Matson died Tuesday in University Hospital Columbus after an illness of two months. Funeral services will be Friday at The Plains Methodist Church with burial at Hocking Cemetery. Surviving are parents two brothers Wayne of Kanesville Ohio and Edward in the army and three sisters Mrs Sylvia Bumgardner The Plains Mrs Vianna Ponte Cleveland and Ellen at home.
A third Transatlantic ferry plane crashed within four weeks and was found yesterday in a remote West Coast mountain area. All 10 passengers and crew aboard were killed, raising total deaths to 54 with 20 Americans among the victims in Britain. The incidents occurred at the start of westbound flights.
About 200 Americans arrived at a British port today joining roughly 200 Canadian troops forming part of the Third Canadian Division. The transfer boosts Allied strength as Canadians guard key areas across the United Kingdom with totals nearing one hundred thousand.
Robert H. Stiverson of Toledo faces a manslaughter charge in the death of 47 year old Robert P. Schmidutz who died from a skull fracture after lying 20 hours in an abandoned car in a parking lot. Police say Stiverson knocked Schmidutz down during the incident.
Martha Belle Smith, 20, of Wauseon, knelt before a fast passenger train and was killed. Coroner H Milton Warner returned a death by own action verdict.
In Indianapolis a four year old, Clarence Goodyear, fell into a 35 foot dry well in his backyard. Deputies Albert Rosenbrook and James Martin explained the danger and lowered a rope. The boy looped it under his arms and was hauled out with only scratches and bruises after about 25 minutes.
Sir Archibald Sinclair told a national defense luncheon that the 10 000 ton pocket battleship Luetzow formerly Deutschland was struck by an RAF torpedo plane a few weeks earlier. He hailed the break in German invincibility and urged stronger RAF Army cooperation. Coastal Command planes attacked 136 U boats and shot down more than 30 German aircraft protecting convoys.
Mayor Robert H. Roberts asked the National Defense Mediation Board to take steps to prevent a strike planned by the CIO Utility Workers Organizing Committee at the Warren power plant of the Ohio Public Service Co. A strike could halt power and disrupt defense industry production.
A defense caravan will tour seven Ohio cities and one in Pennsylvania starting Sept. 15 offering defense sub contracts. Production workers accompanied by army navy air corps and other government representatives will present samples drawings and blueprints to suppliers at each stop.
Akron attorney E Guy Hammond seeks a venue change for the Lukens murder trial tomorrow in the slaying of Ruth Zwicker a 24 year old music teacher whose body was found in the church furnace where Lukens served as janitor. The defense argues an impartial trial cannot be had in Summit County.
In Columbus William Sedoruk lent help to push a stalled car and received a brain concussion cuts and bruises. He said a man whose bumper guards locked after an argument struck him on the nose. Hospital attendants reported his condition fair. A heavyweight team owned by Dr. W M Crall of Pioneer Ohio won the horse pulling contest at the Indiana State Fair in Indianapolis.
Ohio will discharge about 7,600 draftees among 200,000 soldiers mustered out by December. Eligible groups include dependency cases, regular enlisted men, Belrectees and Guardsmen over 28, and married men. Discharged personnel undergo exams, keep one uniform, and get five cents a mile to the local draft board. The board arranges return to work or new employment.
President Roosevelt appoints a five man mission led by W Averell Harriman to Moscow to discuss material aid to the Soviet Union in its fight with Nazi Germany and about nine technicians will accompany the mission.
Britain's imperial forces receive strong reinforcements in Malaya with arrival of Indian army units. The contingent is fully motorized and arrives with complete fighting equipment.
In Hempstead New York an Army P 39 plane crashed into a busy street killing three children as flames engulfed nearby buildings. Pilot Second Lieut Roy W Scott from Mitchel Field ejected after the aircraft dipped to seven hundred feet and landed in a tree.
Columbus reports former Scioto County treasurer Wesley Shela will receive 3550 dollars under a law effective tomorrow. The Scioto County commissioners authorize payment to reimburse money lost or stolen from the treasury during the 1937 flood. Shela personally repaid the county.
Canadian manufacturers of war materials are ordered to adjust their operations to the United States priority rating system for supplies of equipment and materials.
Rep. Maas, a Minnesota Republican and Marine Corps reserve air officer, said Japan was deathly afraid of the U S fleet in the Pacific. He noted some fleet units moved to the Atlantic but believed U S forces there remain strong to defend the nation and keep vital supply routes open. He argued Hawaii's defenses rival Gibraltar and warned Japan’s moves toward Dutch possessions could push the U S to seek Singapore as a new base.
The Associated Press reports twin Soviet counter offenses retaking 22 villages in a 10-day thrust toward Moscow center, destroying an SS division, and pushing Germans back near Leningrad. Berlin acknowledges Soviet resistance as RAF raids hit Berlin and Germany.
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