Three Month Term Sight Here for Normal School Operations
Officials report a looming three month term for the Athens County school system as state aid and local revenue lag. County education leaders urge timely action by the Legislature and note deficits carried from the last year. State aid totals and local taxes are itemized, with cancellations and delayed contracts complicating the coming fiscal year.
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Kenneth County
Athens
Athens County
White
Nt of Education
Smith Hughes
County Board Votes On Primary Ballot Action In Nelsonville
The County Board of Elections plans action against E. Nelsonville after a man illegally entered the city Tuesday. A judge reportedly stated that polling occurred in Ward 2 as discussions about the election took place.
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County Board of Electeday
Ath
Glouster
John ‘Ake
E. Nelsonville
Rosser
Lronton Pes Fee Charge Aug 10 Street Interference Case
A court action seeks a permanent injunction to stop interference with a show on August 10. The plaintiffs claim the defendants caused disruption and seek damages and fees, including a $500 payment rule.
Prohibition Bureau Investigation Report Disclosed
A terse notice from the Justice Department outlines an Aug 10 filing by the Bureau for Existence and its focus on the Eighteenth Amendment enforcement. The investigation activity is described as newly established and absorbing, with details limited to the core entities and official context.
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Ureau
Mt, Investiga
Machado Moves To End Strike And Save Career
In Havana President Machado acts to end a general strike and preserve his rule as Cuba is under a wartime state. American officials reportedly signaled concern over his staying in power while Orestes Ferrara urged continuity and end to the strike with mediation by Sumner Welles. In Hyde Park President Roosevelt, amid a tense Cuban crisis, urged restful action or resignation to restore tranquility and hinted at successor steps if needed.
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Havana
Gerardo Machado
Roosevelt
Cuba
Machado
Orestes Ferrara
United Press
Ferrara
Sumner Welles
Hyde Park
N. Y
U.P
Ohio Recovery Board at Work on NRA Rules
Ohio's new Recovery Board chaired by Col. C. O. Sherrill will be the main contact between Ohio industry and the federal NRA administration. Governor White says the board will direct state recovery machinery under the Carney Act, effective Oct. 18, with a recovery council open to leaders from labor to welfare groups to report local difficulties for guidance.
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Ohio Recovery Board
NRA
Columbus
U.P
Col. C. O. Sherrill
Cincinnati
Ohio
Federal Administration of
White
United States
Ohio Board
Policeman's Lot Is Not a Happy One
Patrolman Joseph Mellar spent a night in Medina jail and was fined 25 dollars plus costs for intoxication and 11 dollars for tearing two coats after a scuffle at a Medina dance hall. His companion Marie McNernney of Cleveland was fined 5 dollars and costs.
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Cleveland
U.R
Joseph Mellar
Gilbert and Sullivan
Mellar
Medina
Marie McNernney
Miner Charged Over Beating Son in Martins Ferry Case
Police investigated a Tiltonville miner after Rudolph Batzdorfer reported two kidnappers took his 14 month old son three times. Each time the child was beaten, including a broken collar bone, with threats of death if details were shared.
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Martins Ferry
Rudolph Batzdorfer
Tiltonville
Batzdorfer
Naval Flier Dies in West
Lauren Pitt 24, son of Mrs Linnie Kern of 12 Palmer Street, perished Wednesday when his Navy aircraft wrecked off Honolulu. Five others rode in the plane. only one survived as the tail section tore away. Pitt, a Navy aviator, had visited Athens and planned to come to Athens next March in a last letter to his mother. Mrs Kern left for Ohio to visit relatives with no word yet on his death.
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Lauren Pitt
Linnie Kern
Palmer Street
Honolulu
Pitt
Navy
Athens
Kern
Pomeroy-Middleport Barbers Join NRA
The Pomeroy and Middleport barbers have voted to join the NRA and will follow the national barbers code when approved. B R Sanders, secretary of the barbers union in Athens, announced the move after meetings of shop owners and employers. He said all barbers joined the union and new uniform prices set are 40 cents for a haircut and 2 cents for a shave.
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Pomeroy
Middleport
NRA
B. R. Sanders
Barbers’ Union
Athens
Sanders
Pomeroy Bend
Winchell Sues Jolson for $50,000 Damages
NEW YORK August 10. Walter Winchell, columnist, filed a $50,000 damage suit against Jolson the stage and screen star. He was served with a summons in the action.
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Winchell
Jolson
New York
Walter Winchell
Oeneeault
Labor issues frame coal code hearings in Washington
National Recovery Administration hearings focus on coal industry codes. Hugh Johnson tackles strikes and chiseling while John L. Lewis presses for union terms. Harrington's general code proposes pay scales of 4.75 to 5 dollars inside and outside wage differences, with dispute over weekly hours and housing and store provisions.
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Washington
National Recovery Administration
Hugh
Johnson
National Labor Board
Pennsylvania
Northern Coal Control and
Appalachian Associations
America
Rocky Mountain-Pacific
Georgia
Tennessee
Preston County
W. Va
Avenues
Wayne Counties
Coal and Iron
Charles O'Neill
Northern Coal Control Association
Smokeless Appalachian Group
George L. Harrington
Chicago
Wilmington and Franklin Coal Company
Illinois
United Mine Workers of America
United Mine Workers
Harrington
Messenger Joins NRA Crusade Effort in Southeast Ohio
The Athens Messenger spells out cooperation with the National Recovery Crusade to promote the NRA program in five Southeastern Ohio counties. John McLean will speak to Gallia Meigs and Athens groups while crusade directors may visit Athens for a Chamber of Commerce event.
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Gallipolis
Athens Messenger
National Recovery Crusade
NRA
Ohio
the Messenger
William Zeigier, Jr
Standard Brands
Thomas Dixon
Bernarr Mcfadden
Mcfadden Publications
Arthur Capper
Robert F. Wagner
de Loss Walker
Patrick Hurley
Athens
Meigs
Gallia County
Southeastern Ohio
John McLean
Messenger
Gallia
Crusade
Chamber of Commerce
Vote Recount Alters Result At Nelsonville
The Athens County Board of Elections confirms John Call tied with Frank Betts at 53 votes for councilman at large with G. W. Pierce at 88. John Cope finished at 52. all names were write ins. Three Republican candidates in Glouster earned spots with 30 votes each from a 368 vote total.
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Athens
Village Council
Glouster
T. D. McAfoos
W. H. Stahl
William Wright
Washington plea to boost tomato payments to farmers
The Agricultural Adjustment Administration urged catsup makers and tomato canners to adjust contracts with growers to pay 25 percent more for their tomatoes. The move aims to boost prices and support farmers amid harvest, with officials noting the need to stabilize supplier income.
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Washington
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
NRA Complaints Here Will Be Acted On by Committee
The Athens Chamber of Commerce announced a committee will handle NRA regulation complaints. Written signed submissions will be treated confidentially and directed to C. M Gill, secretary. The chamber seeks broad participation and urged rapid compliance with wage and payroll standards by September 1.
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NRA
Athens Chamber of Commerce
Chamber of Commerce
C. M Gill
Athens
Big Nations Shouldn't Meddle With Smaller Ones
Will argues that large powers should stop dictating outcomes for smaller states including Cuba. He claims U S policy harms Cuba and warns that meddling breeds conflict, urging Cuba to govern itself and defense of national sovereignty for all nations.
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Will
NRA Crusader Urges Ohioans To Carry On
Gallipolis Aug 10 National Recovery Crusade speaker De Lows Walker arrived to explain NRA effects on Gallipolis and the nation. More than 280 local merchants professionals and farmers attended the Gallia County Courthouse meeting from Gallipolis Meigs and Mason counties with aides from two West Virginia towns. They voiced renewed optimism and willingness to cooperate with the president in the recovery program.
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John McLean
Gallipolis
de Lows Walker
National Recovery Crusade
NRA
Meigs
Mason Counties
West
Walker
Hiker Is Denuded By Three Robbers
CHILLICOTHE Aug. 10 Hoyt Tharp 23 of Williamsport was robbed and stripped by three men on Route 50 near here late Tuesday afternoon. The assailants driving a car with Indiana plates tied him to a tree and robbed two other Ohio hitch hikers who had ridden with them. Similar robberies were reported by men in Kentucky on Monday and the bandits were active in the region.
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Chillicothe
Hoyt Tharp
Williamsport
Gallipolis
Here
Indiana
Tharp
Ohio
Kentucky
Hoover Is 59 Today Observance Quiet
Herbert Hoover marked his fifty ninth birthday in quiet retirement on the Stanford University campus. He remained secluded at his San Juan hilltop residence, planning few observances and showing no sign of political or state affairs.
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Palo Alto
Calif
U.P
United States
Herbert Hoover
Hoover
San Juan
Leland Stanford University
Department Stores Show First Yearly Gain Since Depression
The Federal Reserve Board reported that department store sales rose in July from the prior year for the first time since the downturn began, despite a monthly dip. The gain is linked by some to NRA efforts aimed at boosting purchasing power through higher employment and rising wages.
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Washington
U.R
Federal Reserve Board
NRA
Union Chief Attacks Business Interests Over 30 Hour Coal Code
John L. Lewis of the United Mine Workers challenged business interests at a Washington hearing on coal codes under the Recovery Act. He urged a 30 hour work week and denounced wage discrimination and lack of bargaining unity as threats to economic recovery.
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Union Chieftain
Washington
U.P
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers of America
Lewis
Gallia Robbery Suspect Jailed In Illinois
W A Long alias William Jones, a fugitive from Ohio sought on a Gallipolis bank robbery charge, is jailed in Belleville Illinois on an automobile theft count. He was injured in a wreck linked to a stolen car from St. Louis and is held on 2500 dollar bond.
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Belleville, II
W. A. Long
Ohio
Long
William Jones
Gallipolis
St Louis
Hocking Flood Plans To Be Considered At Congress
Engineers for the Muskingum Valley Conservancy District will submit reports at the Ohio Valley Conservancy and Flood Control Congress in Columbus. David C. Warner of the Ohio Water Conservation Board says general discussion will cover Hocking Valley Flood Control and Ohio River Watershed projects.
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Hocking
Columbus
Muskingum Valley
David C. Warner
Ohio Water Conservation Board
Hocking Valley
Ohio River
Cincinnati Youth Is Charged With Murder
Cincinnati youth Jonn Henkel, 16, who confessed to Meridian authorities that he killed Oliver S. Baily, 27, a social figure here, was transported back to Cincinnati to face a first degree murder charge after a grand jury returned a true bill. He said the killing occurred during a park fight, with a bloodstained brick found nearby.
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Cincinnati
Jonn Henkel
Meridian
Miss
Oliver S. Baily
Henke
Baily
Tennis Tourney of Messenger Delayed by Rain
Heavy rainfall made the Ohio University tennis courts unfit for play this weekend, forcing postponement of The Messenger's First Southeastern Tennis Tournament to next week. The tournament opens Friday morning with the same match times as previously announced. cups are displayed in W. B. Drake Jewelry Store windows.
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Ohio University
Messenger
W. B. Drake
Grain Dealers Face New Code to Curb Speculation
Washington officials outline a proposed code of fair competition for grain exchanges. It would bar indemnity trading, raise trader origins checks, require price range limits, and mandate periodic member account audits. Administrator Peck warned Congress may push stronger restrictions if farm prices do not rise before sales.
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Washington
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
Peck
Conferese
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