11 Apr 1930
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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 11, 1930
Page
1
Chicago reports a 24 hour heat wave driving temperatures to the highest April reading on record. Pre-dawn showers offered brief relief as the Midwest sweltered, officials note.
All-time heat records were set in multiple central cities as Chicago reached 90.2 degrees an April record. A Chicago boy drowned at Lake Calumet after cramps. Heat wave spread from Nebraska to Iowa and Kansas with 98 degrees in Hayes and Philippsburg.
The London three power treaty will cut U S and British fleets while allowing Japan a small tonnage increase. Current totals show the United States 1,186,209 tons, Britain 1,344,412 tons, and Japan 784,877 tons. Under the agreement, reductions occur in each country’s naval strength.
An article compares United States Britain and Japan warship tonnages under a three power treaty noting an American cruiser advantage. It also reports the death of Clarence R. Butts a 42 year old World War veteran from Athens Ohio with details of his service and funeral plans.
A group of about 70 bandits used a street machine gun to spray a bank area in Piqua Ohio today. One man died and two were wounded as the robbers looted Citizens National Bank and Trust Company of roughly 5500. They fled in a waiting touring car as shots fired from the street wounded victims and officials.
Blosser, previously fined and jailed for petit larceny, was returned to the penitentiary and placed under parole supervision by officers Worstell and Headley after breaking the parole terms. The incident occurred in Columbus in March.
Mrs Ida A Etzenuser spoke at the Centennial Institute conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints urging calm and reconciliation among couples. The message urged kindness and respect within marriage and discouraged harmful behavior.
Mrs. Fannie Bibbee Hill, 70, longtime Letart Falls resident in Letart Falls, died Thursday night at her home after a lengthy illness. She was daughter of Daniel Phoebe and Anne Sayre Bibbee. Survived by two brothers FE. C. Bibbee of Athens and J. B. Bibbee. Funeral services set for Saturday at 2 PM at her Letart Falls residence, with burial in the local cemetery.
In Dublin a duchess and former chorus wife of Ireland's Premier was remanded until May y at a police court for attempted death by own action. A police inspector testified that a chef named Williams claimed a quarrel over a radio led to the dash of an incident. the duchess was found nearly unconscious in gas fumes after the dispute.
Hodge reports the Mojave Desert stretching for miles covered in yellow blue and purple wildflowers. Spanish Bayonet plants display large white blossoms surrounded by sharp circling bayonets. Joshua trees rise above 4000 feet with flowering branches. Desert turtles appear in pairs and jack rabbits fat from sparse rains.
Louis Weiss of Victorville plans to lay twelve inch cement pipe to expand alfalfa fields fed by wells tapping the Mojave River. The new system targets increased acreage though it notes absentee farming does not pay. Continued on Page 4.
Federal grand jury will hear a shift of Jamaica ginger sales from Kentucky to Ohio firms in Cincinnati as it reconvenes. District Attorney Mau asked the panel to consider sales by local drug and extract firms not indicted by the Covington grand jury. Prohibition agents say the ginger paralysis outbreak is unrelated to the prosecutions.
Ohio farm lighting plans approved by the Public Utility Commission go into effect today. The program provides electric service to rural districts near lines under 15 000 volts on a minimum guarantee basis. Consumers must pay a minimum monthly charge equal to two percent of construction costs, while line maintenance is borne by the company.
New Marshfield Grange will stage Bashful Mr Bobbs a three act play at Knights of Pythias Hall on Saturday night. Cast includes Katherine Henderson Esther Smith Frederick Henderson Glen Koch Mrs Wiggins Clara McKibben Oba diah Stump Fred Elliott Frances Whitaker Hazel McKibben Rosalie Otis Faye McNeal Mr Robert V Bobbs Delbert Young Jean Graham Ruth Dinsmoor Adrian Collins Celesta Vanderpool Bertha Steinmeyer Julie Margaret McKibben and others.
Everett Carr of Vinton County was bound over to the Athens County Grand Jury after pleading not guilty before Magistrate Carl H. Porter on a charge of removing mortgaged property. The arrest affidavit was signed by Timothy Melharland, an Athens auto dealer, and served by Constable Joe Jonas. Carr says the seller knew his residence was in Vinton County.
In Harrogate Tennessee on April 11 students walked out after four faculty members were dismissed without reason and told to leave by May 31. The student strike spread through campus while many seniors pledged not to return until hearings were held for the discharged instructors.
Frank Murdock was arrested Thursday night on intoxication charges and appeared before Magistrate Carl H. Porter. He pleaded guilty and paid a $10 fine plus costs to secure release, with Constable Joe Jonas making the arrest.
Spokane reports Lette Jourdin 37 secretary of the County W C T U confessed to writing over 200 obscene letters to herself in two years. She admitted loving Sheriff Floyd Brower and used a self addressed letter scheme to gain his attention. She is free on $500 bail awaiting trial for mailing obscene material.
A Santa Fe mail train ploughed into a Pickwick Bus near Isleta Pueblo killing 24 of 26 aboard. Rescue teams found two survivors wandering dazed amid the wreckage. The bus was completely demolished and officials awaited full casualty figures.
Washington April 11. The House and Senate conferees approve the high agricultural tariff rates requested by President Hoover. The plan would raise overall tariff levels beyond targeted relief and is opposed by some Democrats and Independent Republicans who may vote against a bill omitting the debenture clause. The agricultural schedule was finalized except for long staple cotton and eggs. Agricultural interests gain the highest protective tariff in history.
Police raided the Elks and Eagles clubs in Youngstown and seized liquor and beer. James Harvey aged 45 was arrested for liquor law violation after a pint bottle was found at the Elks Club. Bob Clifton aged 43 was arrested at the Eagles Club where 90 quarts and 72 pints of beer were found in an elevator.
More than 150 high school seniors from Ohio and West Virginia registered for the Vocational Congress at Ohio University Athens with expected total delegates surpassing 200. Delegates toured the Home Economics facilities, viewed the museum, and attended a one act play and talks by notable women in the field. A breakfast and additional meetings are planned for Saturday.
Miss Genevieve Apgar of Ohio University spoke on Books for Children at the morning session of the district Ohio Library Association meeting at Ohio University today. Afternoon speakers include Janette Woosley, Prof. GC N Mackinnon, and Miss Ida Peters of Parkersburg West Virginia. Librarians from 13 counties in Southeastern Ohio attend.
Washington April 11 United Press Farm to city migration slackens as population stabilizes. The Agriculture Department notes farm population at 37,222,000 the lowest in 20 years, down 5,000,000 since 1910. Better farm income reduces rural outflow while urban unemployment keeps labor available. Farm wages vary from 23.30 with board in the South Atlantic to 63.94 in the Far West.
Mrs Adelaide Lean 58 a grandmother sues Charles F Harmon 65 an inventor in New York for 250000 claiming breach of promise. She says he courted proposed and then married another after vowing marriage.
Otto Sanhuber, an attic hermit in the home of a married woman, is to testify before the county grand jury about a romance with Mrs. Walburga Oesterreich that began in Milwaukee and allegedly involved the murder of her husband, Fred Oesterreich. District Attorney Baron Fitts may seek a double indictment if Mrs. Oesterreich cannot discuss the case.
The anthracite division of the United Mine Workers will convene in Hazleton on April 30 to consider a new wage scale with operators. The present contract ends August 31, and leaders aim to start talks early to prevent a winter labor dispute. John L. Lewis presided at the sessions.
Firemen battled two hours using prone pressure resuscitation to try to revive Dorothy Mitchell 17 after a fainting spell. An East High School honor student withdrew a year earlier due to heart attacks. Her father R M Mitchell called the rescue squad.
Carl E. Blesch 50 said goodbye to brothers Otto and Frank after a supper at their Columbus home. Police later notified Otto and Frank that the third brother died from poison at St Francis Hospital, marking a deadly discovery in the family.
Logan, April 11. Judge Harley M. Whitcraft owns a Green Township farm known for quantity production of livestock and farm products. A neighbor, Andrew Blake, found a patch in the rear yard on North Culver Street yielding about a pound of spring mushrooms.
London reports that the five power naval talks began January 31 and near end of sessions will sign a limited pact in London covering Britain United States and Japan until 1936 while France and Italy join principles. Hoover aides defend progress but acknowledge limits and critics blame over optimism.
Ohio penitentiary inmate Milliron appeals after conviction for illegal liquor. He has filed a petition in error with the District Court of Appeals. Milliron posted a bond of 1600 dollars and is serving an 18 month sentence.
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