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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 30, 1936
Page
1
New Jersey unemployed abandon occupation of the state assembly chamber after lawmakers adjourn without creating a new relief fund. The nine day protest featured prayer vigils as participants demanded financial aid and an economic lifeline.
The unemployed group that lived nine days in New Jersey's Assembly chamber evacuated with their aims unmet. About 200 protesters left the State House at 12 45 a m after the Legislature adjourned five days without relief funds. They pledged to form a Farmer Labor Party to elect its own legislators and criticized the Assembly for barring them from the floor.
Delegates to the Quadrennial Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church arrive in Columbus for a 22 day session opening Friday. Key issues include unification with two other Methodism branches and a Federation for Social Service report urging leadership in social and economic affairs. Dr Harry F Ward leads the Federation program amid anticipated debate while conservatives labeled Federation members as Methodist Reds.
Dr. C E Holzer and Alan N Jordan outlined a plan to build 39 reservoirs east of Cincinnati on the Ohio River at a cost of 211 million dollars. The plan would affect nine rivers feeding the Ohio and several others in Ohio West Virginia and Kentucky. Congress was expected to act within weeks as advocates recalled the valley congress history since 1933.
The third annual Refrigeration and Home Appliance Show at the Athens Armory features white refrigerators, colored ranges, and other kitchen furnishings on display. Admission is free and demonstrations run 2 to 10 pm with brief talks by Ohio University home economics staff at 3 pm. Prizes, tea service, and vendor demonstrations by Modern Appliance Co, Southern Ohio Electric Co, Wheaton Hardware Co, and TD Zenner Co accompany a new drinking fountain and a guessing contest with 5 3 and 2 dollar prizes.
Em peror Haile Selassie returns to Addis Ababa at 4 p m after mysterious absence. He consults with United States official Cor lius Van H Engert. Italian forces push toward the capital, triggering evacuation and foreign refuge as fighting rages on the Ethiopian high plateau.
Porter Johnson believed he was not a Santa but a pie slice stuck in a chimney during a police raid on his home. He freed himself, received a sooty face a dry cleaning bill and a brief stay in the city jail.
Athens Junior-Senior High School music students completed Floyd K. Prince’s survey. About 128 students listed likes and dislikes across music types with no single favorite. preferences varied widely including hand music and Lawrence Tibbett among top likes, while hillbilly and barn dances ranked as strong dislikes.
Treasury Secretary Morgenthau warned a record peacetime deficit of 5.966 billion dollars as he urged enactment of Roosevelt tax plans. He cited partial prepayment of the bonus and said the 1987 deficit would be 2.675 billion while proposing temporary processing taxes and a corporate tax based on undistributed income. He stressed adherence to a balanced budget and argued for the tax plan despite Republican criticism.
In Battle Creek Michigan elderly residents jeered during testimony as investigators probed the Townsend old age pension plan. Rep Werner Main of Michigan faced questions as supporters and opponents clashed in the audience.
Rivermen worked to unscramble two eaters and fourteen loaded coal barges stuck on sand and wrecks along the Ohio River near Portsmouth. Steamers D. Kenna and another vessel ran aground while towing the barges, hindering water traffic until belts and river water levels allowed salvage.
Thomas Munson was struck by lightning Wednesday while riding a disc harrow in a field on his Medina farm. A flash killed 17 horses instantly, leaving a pile of carcasses in the pasture as the farmer survived the strike.
The House Appropriations Committee approved a peacetime naval bill totaling 531,068,707 to expand ships, air fighters, and personnel. It authorizes two new battleships if foreign signatories begin capital ship replacement, aiming for a stronger navy.
Nina Rauch 86 mother of Frank X Rauch of Athens died Tuesday in Columbus after living there 25 years. Survived by four daughters Gertrude Anna Josephine and Mrs H M Stover of Lancaster and two sons Frank X of Athens and Raymond of Columbus. Funeral services Saturday morning in Columbus with burial in Lancaster cemetery.
Five gunmen entered the Bogota National Bank shortly after noon and took from 18 000 to 20 000 after cowing several employees and customers before fleeing the scene.
Douglas Burton the literary critic who killed Douglas Rose at a studio party was found guilty but insane by a jury. Justice Finlay ordered detention during the monarchs pleasure, meaning admission to an institution for the criminally insane.
Sycamore Illinois sheriff says he retouched a magazine image to reveal Edward Pender as Donald Denner an escaped life prisoner from Ohio State Penitentiary Denner who killed his brother in law Joan Vainter in 1914 was recaptured after the sheriff identified him from the altered photo and traced his movements from Columbus Ohio to Spring Valley Illinois and finally to De Kalb County where he married Hattie Kadie Denner had escaped six years earlier while serving a life term and was believed to be at large in the area.
Mrs Maryon Cooper Hewitt, widow of inventor Peter Cooper Hewitt, is in a Jersey City hospital after an overdose. California prosecutors seek her extradition for her daughter's sterilization charges, but Gov Harold G Hoffman denied the request insisting she face a death by own action charge in New Jersey.
CHICAGO A 24 year old Indiana gunman known as Barton and other aliases admitted then retracted a confession that he killed Sgt Richard Rivers in a pistol battle in Indianapolis after a Lima Ohio jewelry store robbery. Police Capt John Stege announced the suspect was Alfred Brady seized in a North Side hotel. Two men and two women were arrested and a third woman was taken into custody.
Andrew J. Frazier a veteran of the Confederate Army died Wednesday night in Prestonsburg Kentucky at age 6 he had long claimed he carried Gen Robert E Lee orders for Pickett s charge at Gettysburg and became a noted local figure through his century old memory.
A municipal light plant breakdown left buildings factories and homes without power for 23 minutes today in the city system.
Clarence Grover a 43 year old farmer of Galion was found dead after repeatedly attempting suicide with his own actions following weather delays to crop planting. Coroner O R Kackley ruled death as self inflicted.
Washington secretary of state Henry L. Hull warned of rising danger of world war and urged lowering trade barriers. He said a revival of world trade through tariff reductions and trade pacts is needed to halt economic distress and prevent social unrest and dictatorships.
Cliff W Smith resigns as manager of Hotel Berry and plans to return to Cleveland. Fred R Beasley owner announces Beasley will run the hotel with Arthur Cornwell as assistant manager. Ruth Klingenberg to oversee dining room coffee shop and banquets. Mary Klingenberg remains in the office.
London reports the death of Ethel Dickens aged 71, granddaughter of the famed author Charles Dickens, who died Wednesday night.
Coshocton Ohio Judge J C Daugherty prepared today to sentence William E Taylor 53 after his Wednesday conviction for second degree murder in the death of Joseph Newton Bulledgs 70 a pensioner
Taft proposes currency stabilization, a balanced budget, and a hands off policy for business. He speaks to the Women's Republican Club of New Hampshire as possible darkhorse momentum grows amid a potentially deadlocked Republican convention. The plan also attacks the New Deal and calls for local administration of relief with federal aid.
In Brookville Pennsylvania police kept Becker's whereabouts secret as a special grand jury was called to hear charges that John A Becker assisted in and killed Katherine Pracken. The 27 year old father of two confessed he acted at her lonely signal tower more than two weeks ago.
Anchorage report that pilot Oscar Winchell went missing during a 400 mile mercy flight to Kanakanak to fetch a seriously ill patient for brain operation. He left Kanakanak on Wednesday and planned to return with the patient to Seward hospital.
Prof. F. A. Hansen principal of the Rufus Putnam Training School with Mrs. Hansen and two daughters departed Thursday afternoon for Chicago due to the death of his father, Mr. Anton Hansen. They expect to be away until Monday or Tuesday.
The Cleveland Dental Society seeks to withhold Dr Harris R C Wilson’s reappointment as director of dental work in Cleveland public schools accusing his philosophy of socialism. Dr Richard Bolt and Dr James Gentilly defend him saying ousting harms child dental care and would impede needed treatments.
Springfield report says ex governor Myers Cooper urged Republicans at a district rally that the Ned Deal administration is in full flight from its workers and warned only a Cleveland convention blunder could derail GOP momentum. He cited 11,500,000 job seekers and condemned James A. Farley for harming civil service more than Theodore Roosevelt.
Muscatine Iowa State Highway Patrolman Oran H Pape a former University of Iowa football star was killed after a gun battle with bandit Roscoe R Barton who tried to drive away with him Pape wrested the pistol from Barton and fired killing him. Pape 28 died after emergency surgery and blood transfusion hours later.
The resolutions committee of the Chamber of Commerce urged attacks on administration tax plans and labor condition legislation while approving a proposed survey of available jobs. Secretary Hull warned of rising danger of a catastrophic World War and condemned excessive trade barriers. A taxation resolution urged trimming federal expenditures to necessary levels for efficient government.
Clyde Oswalt aged 14 of Pennsylvania was killed when he fell from a bicycle while attempting a ride on a moving truck. The incident highlights dangers of hitching rides and asks for caution among youths.
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