23 Apr 1934
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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1934
Page
1
Southern mine conflicts ease as a wage scale compromise nears. Johnson outlines a 5 dollar daily rate and maintenance work terms while Roosevelt urges a quick return to normal operations. Mining regions in Alabama Kentucky and nearby areas prepare for resumed work and renewed labor peace.
A fragmented notice indicates James Hartley and family participated in a church service at St. The Athens diocese marks a day after or at the local service. A priest referenced in the incomplete text is noted, with unclear details about location and purpose.
Fragmentary OCR text mentions marriage and loans with scattered words and names unclear, leaving unresolved references to Crawford and Ohio. No coherent event or entities clearly identifiable for a definitive card.
In Santa Monica a playful Will Rogers letter recalls President Roosevelt hosting Harvard 1904 graduates at the White House. He quips that all 300 graduates were Republicans and jokes that Democrats kept the class from oblivion, highlighting political humor of the era.
Trunick Russell aged 52 hanged himself at his New Marshfield home using an electric iron cord attached to the bed headboard. His wife found the body about 10 am after visiting their daughter Mrs Sam Riggles. He had been in poor health and out of work for a year and had previously attempted suicide about a month earlier. Survived by widow, five children, two sisters, three brothers, and two grandchildren. funeral plans incomplete.
Belgrade dispatch reports 36 hours of rescue work yielding six bodies from Kakaj Mine after an explosion. Officials say original headcount was high, with 160 believed trapped and 15 escaped, 10 rescued earlier. deaths appear rapid from the quake like blast.
Two Ohio University students won prizes in the Jackson etsteddfod recitation contest on Friday. Miss Florence Harper took the first award and Miss Laura Hank the second, both residents of Jackson. Harper, a freshman, also claimed the state college prize CPBLONIGA GOQiealus 28.
Cleveland and St Louis plants including Fisher Body and a Chevy branch face a 10 000 worker walkout seeking higher pay and union recognition. The United Automobile Workers Federal Union and Federated Automobile Workers of America backed by the AFL push for bargaining rights as the industry fears spread. Toledo reports begin return to work as four plants end a four week strike with settlements reached.
About 150 youths from Steubenville to Portsmouth gathered at the First Christian Church and the Presbyterian Church in Athens for a weekend conference. Leaders from Disciple of Christ churches spoke with guidance from the Ohio Christian Missionary Society and the Ohio Christian Woman's Missionary Society. Delegates stayed in local homes and enjoyed fellowship events, with the Westminster Fellowship presenting a three episode play titled A Great Bell Ringing.
The notice touts the Classified Page for advertising news and items for sale or rent. It mentions a lost ladies yellow gold wrist watch, a Ford Model T roadster, Chester White pigs, silk dresses cleaned by a new process, house or apartment rentals, and city or farm property listings in Nelsonville.
Police found Donald Schoonover's abandoned car near his home in Hancock County. A crude note demanded almost $10 000 ransom and warned of harm unless paid, signaling a three day kidnapping plot tied to complaints from farmers and livestock business concerns.
The Sun Day Messenger reports Columbus robberies solved after Detective Ray Archer and C. C. Cole nabbed Mr and Mrs Farl Kauff in Columbus and recovered part of the loot. The bulk of stolen goods was found in Pomeroy. Evidence ties the Kauffs to multiple burglaries and notes prior prison terms.
Rev. David Flora 57 of Meigs County died at Hotzer Hospital Gallipolis after being taken from Wolf Pen. Survived by his wife and several children and relatives. Funeral services set for 4 PM today at Pomeroy Christian Church conducted by Rev. F I Gardner.
The special Senate committee investigating the State Liquor Department planned to resume sessions in Columbus during the week. Sen. Carl D. Sheppard said the panel, which recently closed a session, disclosed that prominent Pike County Democrats profited from a state store room in Waverly, renting for $75 per month.
Mrs Cornelius Vanderbilt Sr dowager leader of eastern society during a glittering era, dies at her palatial 67th Street New York home. She married Cornelius Vanderbilt 67 years ago while he served as treasurer of the New York and Harlem Railroad. he died in 1899.
George W Haney urged relocating relief workers to farms in Gallia County. He proposed providing homes and a share in farming to raise their own food. About fifty township trustees from across the county attended the Saturday session and plan another gathering in May to decide on relief measures.
Seeds issued today to 14 sections including Athens Mechanicsburg Glouster Chauncey and Nelsonville relief offices. Only carded families may receive seed to plant 30 by 100 foot plots with beans beets carrots lettuce onions and more. A manual and supervisor guidance accompany the program to ensure cultivation and harvest.
The Athens City Board of Health ordered all dogs to be tied or muzzled for three weeks effective immediately after a death bullet struck a dog on Wolfe Street. Health commissioner Dr. J M Higgins said the animal’s rabies status is uncertain and warned it could have bitten other dogs.
Five hundred newspaper publishers from across the country gathered in New York for two conventions. The AP meeting opened at the Waldorf Astoria, while the American Newspaper Publishers Association session began the next day, focusing on recovery program topics affecting newspapers and newsprint.
W. R. Snyder circulated petitions in Lima urging voters to back former Governor Vic Donahey for the Democratic nomination for United States Senator.
The Reconstruction Finance Corporation shows a nearly two billion dollar underbudget relief effort due to improved business activity and loan repayments. Banks and borrowers repay about three million daily, easing borrowing needs and shaping Congress decisions on directing any apparent surplus to further relief or new semi governmental lending systems.
A weekend string of accidents across Ohio left at least seven dead. Frances Skeinar, 4, burned to death. Mariene Ann Ubi, 13 months, died after swallowing poison pills. Daryl Kreis, 3 months, strangled by a hood ribbon. Two Cincinnati women injured in auto crashes. Ernest Mawhirter, 63, killed as he lay in the street. Mrs Burns and Mrs Blatt deaths linked to fires. Robert May, 7, fatally struck near Findlay while racing to a candy store.
Meigs County commissioners will act as county board of aid for the aged to oversee pensions. An investigator clerk will be hired to manage the pension work with a first payment expected August 1 for July benefits. Applications await clerk appointment and office setup.
The dirigible Macon will use the Miami mooring mast as its base for three weeks and take part in naval maneuvers over the South Atlantic. After an uneventful Pacific-to-coast flight, it landed in Miami at 6:15 p.m. following a two hour flight.
Opera star Ernestine Schumann Heink faced a death threat before a New York concert. She performed at Carnegie Hall for the Anti-Nazi League and later revealed the letter describing threats against Jews. The singer, born in Germany, has four sons who served in the American Army and one who died in WWI.
Gary educator Dr. William A. Wirt charges Rexford Guy Tugwell with being the real plotter behind the Brain Trust plan to overthrow government and end liberties. Wirt labels Tugwell as the brains of the Brain Trust while calling the others satellites and later tempers his attack by naming him rightful leader of the Young Intellectuals.
In Glasgow Junction, Kentucky, 25 year old Paul Turner died after a fall 85 feet underground in a cave while exploring hidden caverns near the area. Rescue teams worked five hours to free him but he died before extraction.
Miller Brothers of Gallipolis and Wood Shiley Company of Huntington received unofficial word that the Route 78 resurfacing contract between McArthur and Dundas in Vinton County has been awarded. The work is to be completed this summer.
In Toledo and Bowling Green two seven week and three month old infants died Sunday from suffocation in their beds. Richard Ashe was found dead beside his mother in Toledo. Patsy Ann George died at Portage after blankets suffocated her. Coroner Halford Whitacre reported the deaths.
Federal and local forces battle Dillinger gangsters as three women are captured at Little Bohemia Lodge after clashes around Lake Sac De Flambeau. Boisenau, Hoff man, and Morris die or are wounded. Dillinger and others escape under cover of gunfire and misfires.
In Columbus on Sunday 70 year old Matilda Imhoff Wittmann collapsed after kneeling in prayer at St Marys Catholic Church and died minutes later from a heart attack.
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