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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 18, 1934
Page
1
County Relief Director says two striking workers will be replaced by new hires. The dispute centers on rewritten hours and payroll procedures aimed at ensuring relief payments, with 2000 workers seeking higher wages and benefits. A committee seeks an audience with Roosevelt as talks continue.
The state liquor store will open at 10 a m daily except Saturday and will operate from 10 a m to 6 o clock. Clarence Fultz is cashier with Carbaugh and William as clerks. Stock includes 128 kinds with prices from 3 cents to 1 25 dollars. Checks not accepted. customers must present their claim check to verify purchases before rapping the bottle.
Officials gathered last night in the courthouse as Commissioners A Bingham and Homer Hysell faced questions about attendance and trustee reports. The session touched on approvals, staffing gaps, and upcoming actions by the board amid unclear lines of authority and procedural concerns.
London reports grim shift toward war preparedness across Europe. Britain plans a white paper detailing failed disarmament talks and confirms an imminent buildup of air power. Four million peace time soldiers guard frontiers while Europe could field about 36 million trained troops in war. The Soviet Union is cited with the largest army, 1.3 million, potentially rising to 7.5 million.
Will Rogers laments that baseball represents the national game while other pursuits like golf and polo are mere substitutes. From an Oklahoma Giants source, he urges Congress to support baseball as the true national pastime and stresses its unique value beyond socializing.
In Columbus the administration's 54 million dollar retail sales tax proposal faces a pivotal House vote after three prior defeats. The House rules committee will decide whether to place it on today’s calendar or delay action. Speaker Frank Cave noted decisions depend on member attendance and developments as the session resumes.
Cincinnati April 18 Crosley Radio Corporation receives authorization to operate its new 500000 watt transmitter regularly over the cleared WLW channel.
The note highlights items on the classified page including a lost glasses report on Court Street, German Police puppies for sale, a Holstein cow with calf, a nearly new gas range and various public sale notices. Readers urged to check today’s ads for bargains and other listings.
Two armed intruders robbed Mr. and Mrs. Deckard four miles south of Vinton of more than 800 dollars in cash and deposit certificates. They entered by posing as friends and warned the couple to stay indoors for 15 minutes. A stolen car found near the scene lacked gasoline. Authorities seek the perpetrators. the bank was alerted to missing notes.
Members of the Young Democrats Club of Athens County are invited to a Friday meeting in Pomeroy at 7 30 pm sponsored by a Meigs County group. William G Pickrel Democratic candidate for governor will be speaker. The invitation was received by Weyne Wingett.
Elyria reports charges claim a faulty tail light on a parked truck caused the Center Ridge Road bus disaster. Investigators say all evidence will be shown to the grand jury tomorrow.
Dayton dispatch reports the Union Fireworks Corporation explosion near Dayton increasing the death toll to three as two more female victims died in hospitals after the incident.
National Guardsmen sealed the county jail and courthouse in Shreveport as 5,000 to 9,000 angry residents tried to free Fred Lockhart 38 accused in a stabbing and assault case. Tear gas fumes hung over the district as Sheriff Hughes warned of deadly defense if Lockhart were removed. Officials said Lockhart confessed to stabbing Mae Griffin 15 and assaulting her before her body was found in the woods.
Col Theodore Roosevelt leader of New York Republicans calls the NRA militaristic corrupt and inefficient while denouncing recovery efforts as threats to the constitution. He avoids naming the President directly but alludes to him as "The President" in a sharp critique of the administration.
Logan serves as a stopping point for nearly all athletic teams traveling to Athens to compete with Union University athletes. By week’s end Ohio Wesleyan baseball will dine there en route to Athens and Miami University track will use Logan as its headquarters that night.
Athens Ohio relief director assigns workers to resume work at the municipal airport. FERA airport engineer B F Renick arrives, three days per week for a month, under city supervision by F L Williams.
Delinquent taxes totaling about 1700 have been paid to the Athens County treasury after efforts by County Treasurer G D Gorham. A resident paid roughly 1200 in full when warned of a suit. another paid 600 of 1100 after judgment was sought. Four new suits were filed by Assistant Prosecutor Gordon B Gray, with tax claims on Troy and Nelsonville properties. Sheriff's sale of involved property is requested in each petition.
Reedville April 18 Virgil J Packard 90 the last Civil War veteran of Olive Township dies at his home He ran a Reedaville store for 39 years and served in Company K 140th Ohio Volunteer Infantry He is survived by a widow and four children Ray Packard Mrs B W Moore Ethel at home and Clyde Packard of Parkersburg Funeral set for Friday at 10 50 AM at Beedeville M E Church led by Rev J W Barnes
Washington April 14 distribution of code eagles and permanent NRA insignia to all members of codified industries will start in a day or two. Application blanks will be available at post offices.
Columbus, April 18. The Ohio State Education Department proposes merging 88 high schools with under 50 students to larger schools. Twenty have agreed. 35 small schools may close by fall to economize state aid. Schools without state aid are excluded from the plan.
Dr Edgar Whittaker Work a Logan native and former Fourth Presbyterian Church pastor in New York City died at his Fryeburg Maine summer home at noon Tuesday. He was 71 and had retired 3 1/2 years ago. He leaves wife Ellen Wilson Work and sister Mrs D C McManigal. Funeral plans place services in New York Thursday and in Logan Friday with interment at Oak Grove Cemetery. He had pastored in Van Wert Dayton Colorado Springs Berkeley and New York and authored several religious books.
Elusive outlaw John Dillinger was wounded in a St. Paul apartment escape three weeks earlier. A Minneapolis physician and a nurse who dressed the wound are identified, as Dillinger fled to Indiana then raided the Warsaw police station for bullet proof vests and is now believed to be near the Canadian border.
Miss Mary Caulbaugh of Akron, 20, was identified by her sisters as the girl who leaped before a speeding Willoughby train on January 2. The Wheeling children’s home aided the identification from a morgue photo after the sisters last heard from her December 29, 1922.
Columbus April 18. The state relief commission approved requests for supplemental grants and transfers of relief funds. Hocking County received 1700 dollars transferred from the works division for a garden project and 1700 dollars moved from the same division to relief.
Ben Nogrady 26 of Greens Run died yesterday at St. Francis Hospital Columbus after being unaware his mother had died days earlier. His mother died a week after his hospital admission. Funeral services set for Thursday at Greens Run Church with Maplewood Cemetery burial. He is survived by father Dan Nogrady Sr and four brothers Dan Jr Athens John Drydock Alex and Frank.
The House investigating committee indicated it would close the Wirt case without further attention to discrepancies in the testimony of Dr. William Wirt and six guests at a Virginia dinner party. Some colleagues urged informing the DC district attorney, but the case was expected to be closed without action.
The charred bodies of four Dallas men and women killed in a plane crash miles northwest of Dallas were returned to the city today.
Violence flares in Alabama coal fields as 21,000 miners strike, guards deployed at Edenwater mine, and a Birmingham ambush leaves one dead and another wounded. In Kincaid Illinois, a feud erupts after a miners parade with shots and multiple injuries.
Paris dispatches say Le Journal claimed Leon Trotzky planned to flee exile to Paris and dash across the country by motor car, then lead a revolution from abroad. The papers also alleged Trotzky supporters guided February 12 demonstrations causing three deaths in Place de la Nation.
NEW LEXINGTON April 18 Robert F Ward 24 of Cleveland an employee of the 8S W Arnold Dairy Co Somerset was killed when his automobile upset on the Somerset New Lexington Road last night while passing another car.
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