Arbor Day exercises planned at West State Street Cemetery
The complete Arbor Day program at West State Street Cemetery Friday at 2 30 pm is announced by Mrs John Finsterwald. Mayor Robert S Wood chairs with Capt J B Allen as honorary chairman. Athens High School Band will play. students from Central West Side East Side and Rufus Putnam Schools will sing.
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West State Street
John Finsterwald
Robert S. Wood
J. B. Allen
Athens High School
American Legion
Athens
Russell Finsterwald
Frances Hartman
Goldie Morris
Betty Jane Corwin
Helen Downs
Mildred Yogers
Amy Jo Saunders
Virginia Porter
Catherine Sherrard
Anna
Margaret Morrison
Bettie Bardin
R. H. White
Rufus Hopkins
Don Finsterwald
Ferol Betz
C. D. Giauque
Clark Williams
Robert T. Tomkins
O. L. Hoisington
Kept Alive by Water in Veins
Mrs. Ludmilla I. Sinitsin, 45, wife of Dr Dimitri F Sinitsin, a Russian scientist, tried to kill herself at a tourist camp near Bi Pano Texas by pouring gasoline on her bed and setting it afire. She is kept alive by injecting three quarts of water daily into her veins to restore blood water content.
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Ludmilla I. Sinitain
Sinitsin
Dimitri F. Sinitain
Bi Pano
Tex
Smith Attacks Roosevelt in Party Speech At Jefferson Dinner
Alfred E. Smith denounces Roosevelt from the Jefferson Day dinner podium proposing to cancel war debts for 20 years with yearly reductions while outlining a Democratic platform. He warns against class conflict and calls for liquor control, debt forgiveness, federal bonds for public works, tariff reform, and government reorganization.
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Washington
U.P
Alfred E. Smith
Congress
Eject Two From Hearing as Bonus Talks Disturbed
Chairman Crisp ordered removal of two agitators during the Ways and Means Committee hearing on the soldiers bonus in Washington. J. W. Ford of New York City, a reported Negro vice presidential candidate for the Communist Party, and Samuel J. Stember of New York City were ejected. Stember claimed he was not a Communist Party member.
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Washington
House
Ways and Means
Crisp
Capitol
Workers and Soldiers League
J. W. Ford
New York City
Communist Party
Samuel J. Stember
Pacifists Have Little Hope in Far East, Says Will
Beverly Hills April 14 Floyd Gibbons reports missed China news and a chat with Sir Victor Sassoon about affairs in China and India. He notes Japan holds Manchuria until Russia is ready and China teeters between civil strife and outsider influence, leaving pacifists little to expect in the Far East.
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Beverly Hills
Cal
Pril
Floyd Gibbons
China
Floyd
Victor Sasoon
India
J. P. Morgan
Gibbons
Sasoon
Japan
Manchuria
Russia
Far East
Emus And Ourselves In Hearst Ranch View
Arthur Brisbane reflects on California's Hearst Ranch near San Simeon noting wild oats, year round pasture, Easter lilies, and exotic animals like kangaroos emus cassowaries and snow white deer. He quips that humans share a similar lack of intellectual curiosity about existence and fate.
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Hearst Ranch
San Simeon Calif
California
W. R. Hearst
Japan
Public blamed for market woes in Whitney speech
Whitney of the New York Stock Exchange tells the public bears responsibility for the troubles, blaming reckless speculation and widespread gambling rather than the institutions. He cites a saloon keeper remark to illustrate shared fault.
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Whitney
New York
Stock Exchange
Wall Street Blame Game Echoes 1929 Bull Market Claims
Mr Whitney attributes the 1929 bull market to Mr Coolidge’s prosperity talk while blaming Mr Hoover for promising poverty’s end. Hoover countered that poverty could end if wealth were distributed and fraudsters jailed, not merely questioned. Continued on Page 4.
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Whitney
Mr. Coolidge
Mr. Hoover
Hoover
Clean Up Week Nears End in Athens
Athens Clean Up Week winds down with about 30 truckloads more waste needed to hit the 100 load target. City workers had collected 15 loads from Zone 8 by noon, as East Side residents praised the effort. Tomorrow the campaign will cover area east of Court Street and south of State Street. City officials thanked Athens Boy and Girl Scouts for assisting with town patrols and noted improved district curb appeal.
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Athens
Zone 8
Mill Street
Court Street
East Side
Collins
State Street
Athens Boy and Girl Scouts
Better Homes and Grounds Committee
Woman ends 21 year search with Stockton divorce
Sadie Pius, a 42 year old Russian, spent 21 years seeking her husband across Europe and America. She found him in Stockton, California, then asked for a divorce on desertion grounds in Superior Court.
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Los Angeles
Sadie Pius
Europe
America
Stockton
Calif
Superior Court
Hoover Meets Financial Chiefs Over Economic Crisis
President Hoover held a White House conference with three top finance leaders Secretary Mills Eugene Meyer and Charles G. Dawes to discuss the national economic problem.
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Washington
Split in House Economy Committee Boosts Hoover Push
A split in the House Economy Committee favoring President Hoover accelerates efforts to block a separate federal pay cut and fold the entire economy program into one bill. The president prepared a memorandum slated for presentation by Budget Director J Clawson Roop amid daylong discussions.
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Washington
U.P
House
Hoover
J. Clawson Roop
Weather snapshot from yesterday and today across cities
Yesterday highs reached 92 in Phoenix and Abilene while Oklahoma City topped 86. Today’s lows report White River 8 Cochranes 14 Parry Sound 14. General 36 hour forecast shows favorable pressure and gradually rising temperatures.
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Phoenix
Abilene
Oklahoma City
White River
Cochrane
Parry Sound
When In Rome Do As The Romans Do
Athens residents use a direct method to rent rooms and solve trouble by calling 0243 to an ad taker. Mrs Howard Brookins used the rooms for rent column in The Messenger and quickly rented her space. The piece urges following Athens practice.
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Athens
Rome
Howard Brookins
Messenger
Private furnished rooms for light housekeeping
Lancaster 8t. offers 168-3 furnished rooms with porch for light housekeeping and strictly private. Dial 23253.
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Lancaster
Navy considers keeping entire fleet in Pacific
Washington reports say the Navy Department is studying keeping the entire United States fleet in the Pacific indefinitely with no orders yet issued. Most seaworthy ships, aside from a few submarines and repairs, are already stationed in the Pacific, totaling 107 vessels.
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Washington
U.P
United States
Pacific
Navy Department
State Department
Atlantic
Department
Stimson
William Y. Pratt
Boy Says He Escaped From Abductors
Edward Walsh fourteen told two Philadelphia patrolmen he escaped from three men who forced him into a car. His twelve year old brother Thomas said he escaped when they tried to push him in too. Police took Edward for questioning as they investigated the incident.
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Philadelphia
U.P
Edward Walsh
Thomas
Edward
Woman Defends Home as Burglar Falls Two Stories
Mrs. A. M. Hedges fought off a would be burglar who tried to climb through her apartment window. She struck him on the head several times, causing the intruder to fall two stories to the ground before he escaped.
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Columbus
U,.p
A. M. Hedges
Truck Miners Now Organize in Nelsonville
Nelsonville April 14. The Southern Ohio Truck Mine Association formed at Carbon Hill meeting led by Arthur Levering. A second Carbon Hill meeting is planned next Monday at 7 PM. Officers chosen: Frank Hawk president, Lee Thompson vice president, Guy Mulholland secretary. Union aims to unite all district truck mine operators and organize miners into a central local with the prior February 1 wage scale as the target. About 40 to 50 truck mines exist in the district.
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Nelsonville
Southern Ohio Truck Mine Association
Carbon Hill
Arthur Levering
Frank Hawk
Lee Thompson
Guy Mulholland
Levering
Steel Wage Cut Looms
A second wage cut in the steel industry is under consideration, following a 10 percent reduction last October, with clerical salaries cut similarly. The basic wage now stands at 40 cents an hour, down from 44 cents in October. since 1913 rates ranged 20 to 51 cents. Industry capacity runs at about 22 percent, too slow to cover bond interest.
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New York
Mrs Brannon Dies in Chattanooga After Athens Years
Mrs Emmett Brannon longtime Athens resident died Sunday at her Chattanooga home. She was born October 12 1842 in Belmont County and would have been 90. Survived by sister Miss Lou Pickering and daughter Mrs Ella Burke. Her husband died three years ago and she had lived with her daughter in Chattanooga since leaving Athens 40 years ago.
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Emmett Brannon
Athens
Chattanooga
Tenn
L. L. Pickering
Alonzo Pickering
Samuel C. Pickering
Lincoln
Neb
Lou Pickering
Brannon
Belmont County
Brannons
Woman Leader Seeks End to Prohibition Alliance
Mrs. Charlies H. Sabin of New York addressed the Senate judiciary committee urging repeal of national Prohibition and restoration of liquor control to states. She spoke for 651,537 members of the Women's Organization for National Prohibition Reform, saying churches and temperance groups aid organized crime.
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Washington
U.pr
Charlies H. Sabin
New York
Women's Organization For National Prohibtion Reform
Senate Judiciary Committee
Sabin
Fisher Body Plant Expands Hours and Workforce
The Fisher Body Company plant in Cleveland has increased daily hours to nine to one, five days a week, affecting about 1,400 workers. In two weeks total, 2,500 employees are on the same schedule, and district Chevrolet officials report roughly 200 new hires since April 1.
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Cleveland
Fisher Body Company
Chevrolet Motors
Fisher
Reporter Charges Assault by Officer
Raymond M. Miller of the Moundsville Journal says he was assaulted on his way to the office by John Lehew an armed constable under Justice W E Clayton. The paper campaigns against a supposed thug system used by police in mine strike arrests and liquor law probes. The incident was reported to Prosecuting Attorney Lloyd Arnold.
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Moundsville
W. Va
U.P
Raymond M. Miller
Moundsville Journal
John Lehew
W. E. Clayton
Lloyd Arnold
T.o
Elyria Eyes Gas Rate Cut Appeal to State Panel
Elyria officials seek a 13 percent cut in city gas rates via a new ordinance. Gas company officials say they will appeal to the state public utilities commission.
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Elyria
U.P
State Public Utilities Commission
Confession in Child Murder by Whiting Man
Glen Donald Shustrom, 23, confessed to attacking and strangling 12-year-old Alberta Knight, daughter of a neighbor in Whiting, Indiana. He denied complicity until confronted with fingerprints and photos from the murder scene during long police grilling.
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Glen Donald Shustrom
Alberta Knight
Whiting
Ind
Shustrom
Secrecy Tightens as Lindbergh Kidnapping Probe Expands
In New York on April 14 police pursued broad leads in the Lindbergh case as they traced a $20 bill tied to a $50,000 ransom. The search spanned two continents while authorities carefully guarded negotiations to recover Col. Lindbergh's kidnapped son.
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New York
Jassie
Charles A. Lindsbergh
Kidnap Inquiry Touches Cities Across Europe
A bill received by Peril Isaacs from River Savings Bank remained unrecognized amid 1 500 deposits on April 4 and 5 in Europe as authorities pursue the kidnapping case. Ermitt actions span London Glasgow Birmingham Amsterdam Barcelona Berlin Hamburg Villefranche Rotterdam The Hague with Og Charles Schoeffel of the New Jersey State Police in Vienna. A German American suspect is believed among the kidnapers and Colonel Lindbergh was rumored in New York though unconfirmed. sources say he was not at Sourland Mountain estate and was not available.
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Peril Isaacs
River Savings Bank
Europe
London
Glasgow
Birmingham
England
Amsterdam
Barcelona
Berlin
Hamburg
Villefranche
Rotterdam
Hague
Og Charles Schoeffel
New Jersey
Vienna
Ameri
Lindbergh
New York
Sourland Mountain
Not Compelled To Rent Pu Music Hall To White
Cleveland court rules city not required to rent Pu Music Hall to George White for Scandals May 1 17. Adams Mill Hall manager refused over private theater competition. Court dismisses suit, says city charter has no mandate to rent.
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Cleveland
U.R
Pu Music Hall
George White
Court of Appeals
KE. Adams
Mill Hall
White
Twelve Schools Enter County Musical Program Tonight
Athens County high school students from over twelve schools participate in the annual musical program at Ohio University Memorial Auditorium at 7:30 PM. A combined orchestra and three choruses perform the geo gram replacing prior individual contests, under the direction of Herbert Span mental instructor with Marianna Bing coordinating rehearsals.
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Athens County High School
Athens County Athletic and Oratorical Association
Ohio University Memorial Auditorium
Athens
Marianna Bing
Ames-Bern
Herbert Span
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