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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 07, 1937
Page
1
Gov. Martin L. Davey reiterates plan to feed relief clients via field kitchens unless Legislature acts by April 15. National Guard officers to coordinate in 13 counties with adjutant general Emil F. Marx, while Senate leaders discuss a three-point relief financing program.
Aviation authorities from six nations sought the whereabouts of Col and Mrs Charles A Lindbergh after they departed Zagreb Tuesday on an unreported return flight toward their English home. The route would cross the Alps and the English Channel over roughly 900 miles with no destination disclosed.
Anti administration Democrats and Republicans in the Senate plan to push a resolution condemning sit-down strikes. They aim to convert a concurrent resolution into a joint one that would require President Roosevelt's signature.
Vermont moves to outlaw sit down strikes with a bill awaiting Governor Aiken signature. The measure makes conspiracies of three or more persons to occupy property without owner consent illegal, with penalties up to two years in jail or a $1000 fine.
Langsville resident Robert McKnight died Monday in a Columbus hospital after a long illness. Funeral services will be held at the family home Thursday at 2 PM. He leaves a wife two daughters Mary Bernice and Janet two brothers Earnest Aurora III and Everett and a sister Mrs F A Miller of Langsville.
Perpignan authorities awaited U.S. word on 11 men who call themselves Americans held on charges of trying to reach Spain to join the civil war. Six are Ohioans.
Mrs Alta Younger Beckett faced a Marysville Reformatory sentence for receiving stolen property. Judge W R White linked potential leniency to raising 50 for court costs, but a relative entrusted to pay became intoxicated and failed to pay. Mrs Younger was taken to the reformatory in custody of Deputy Sheriff Dale Russell and Mrs E E Hatfield.
Lawrence Howell of New York City announced a promotion campaign for Rio Grande College to start Friday April 23 with an evening dinner at the Gallipolis Methodist Church. The dinner aims to inform several hundred residents from Gallia and neighboring counties about a drive expected to raise nearly half a million dollars for the sixty year old college.
The 89 million dollar biennial appropriations bill cleared the House amid Republican opposition after a brief debate. It now faces Senate action where Republicans and a minority of Democrats aim to cut the measure by six to eight million dollars.
The Ohio Senate approved the Waldvogel bill 25 to 11, providing 3.5 million dollars annually in state aid to students in non-public schools, administered by local boards. The measure targets parochial schools, facing House Finance Committee scrutiny where some expect it to die.
Harry Gwinn age 36 son of City Manager John Gwinn and plumber for Lewis Maddy was entombed in a deep ditch on Olive Street Tuesday afternoon while working on a sewer connection at the former J. E. Wood homestead. He was buried nearly 45 minutes before fellow workers and the fire department freed him. He suffered a facial cut and widespread bruises with sand in his eyes and spent the night at Holzer Hospital, where he was reported much improved. About 500 people gathered to witness the rescue.
Investigators feared Robert Irwin had eluded a nationwide police dragnet for the suspected slayer of Veronica Gedeon a young artist model her mother and a lodger at the Gedeons Beekman Hill apartment in New York as tip after tip proved unhelpful.
Crowds gathered at Schine’s Athena Theater for the Athens Messenger Cooking School led by Mrs. Elizabeth Robbins. Women from Chauncey, Millfield, Nelsonville and nearby towns arrived early to learn new kitchen ideas and techniques, including baked eggs and rose refrigerator rolls.
International tension over the Spanish civil war rises after a British destroyer Garland was attacked by insurgent aircraft near the Balearic Islands. Reports say two motor planes possibly Italian made, with officials not confirming the exact origin. Loyalists push insurgents back in Cordoba as German and Italian troops retreat.
Naval patrol boats swept a sea area after a mid air collision of two bombing planes from the Aircraft Carrier Lexington. Three crewmen died in the crash and one body was recovered as witnesses spoke of a yellow flame and smoke. Authorities offered no comment on live bombs and said there was no explosion on impact. The crash occurred about 40 miles offshore.
Hearings on a bill to raise the gasoline tax from three to four cents a gallon were continued by the House Highways Committee after a four hour session failed to vote. The overflow crowd packed the House chamber with standing room scarce. The measure would raise the total state tax on gasoline to five cents per gallon with revenue split 60 percent to the State Highway Department 15 percent to municipalities 15 percent to townships and 10 percent to counties all for highway construction.
Mrs. S. D. Webb 69 former Athens Albany and Columbus resident and Castor family member died Tuesday in a Pensacola Florida hospital. Funeral services will be at Columbia Chapel Pt Rock with interment at Castor Cemetery. She leaves a husband a son Dr Carol C Webb of Pensacola and a brother Charles Webb of Athens.
Noble County officials end the sit-down strike by moving Mr. and Mrs. Jack Edgar to the county infirmary after they occupied two chairs at relief headquarters. The Edgars had declared they would sit until relief funds were provided.
A black symbol of mourning flies over downtown Atlanta at fatal crashes to warn motorists. The flag is raised as an experimental measure to reduce auto accidents in the city.
A search party of 50 sheriffs deputies and loggers traversed 25 feet of snow on Mount Baldy toward a Douglas transport wreckage after a crash Saturday with eight aboard. They camped eight miles from the scene hoping for a light signal. Maj. A D Smith of TWA spotted the wreckage in a scouting flight.
In Cleveland two Alvin Karpis gang members pleaded guilty to complicity in the Garrettsville mail train robbery of November 7, 1935. Federal Judge Paul Jones sentenced Fred Hunter regarded as the machine gunner to 25 years, and Joe Roscoe of Toledo to seven and a half years.
In New York Harry Weiss and Martin Schlossman of Brooklyn received sentences from 20 years to life at Sing Sing after being convicted of kidnapping Paul Wendel, a Trenton attorney, in a case tied to the Lindbergh baby murder saga.
A blazing fire tore through the Tondo district of Manila tonight, consuming more than 30 blocks of flimsy tenements and leaving an estimated 20,000 people homeless. Firefighters battled the flames as the blaze raged with little restraint.
Martha Lear aged 11 of Westerville died in a hospital here Tuesday night from burns after her clothing caught fire while playing with her three year old brother.
Detroit U P Henry Ford's vast manufacturing interests become the unions No 1 objective as 90000 Chrysler workers and feeder plant employees prepare to return to work under a month long strike ending accord. General Motors and Chrysler reached deals while UAW targets the third of the Big Three with signatures to the Chrysler agreement secured Tuesday night.
Gov. Frank Murphy opens talks with Reo Motor Car Company officials and UAW leaders. Chrysler Corp. and James F. Dewey agree the union will represent only its own members in nine plants for now, with no sit down strikes through March 31, 1938. Ford unionization and River Rouge plant dynamics shape strategy as feeder factories face pressure.
A Japanese cherry tree at the Racine Dam is in full bloom with pink blossoms. Described as the only tree of its kind near Washington, D C, its display contrasts with a weeping willow like silhouette.
Mrs. Frances Dial of Lakewood resigns as chairman and Governor Davey names Mrs. Anna Bruce of Tiffin as successor. The brief notice cites the immediate appointment and the two officials involved in the change.
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