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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1936
Page
1
Mt. Pleasant IA police and volunteers evacuated about 1000 inmates from two remaining wards as flames gutted the state hospital. Firemen held inmates in place while guards and volunteers led them to safety. all accounted for or recaptured, cause under investigation.
Mary Astor endures a grueling cross examination as her private custody fight with Dr. Franklin Thorpe intensifies. Prosecutors seek George Kaufman amid allegations of eight unnamed lovers. Kaufman remains elusive while Thorpe’s counsel probes alleged relationships during their marriage.
Mrs. Gaston B. Means rushed to Leavenworth to see her husband who refused an emergency operation to save his life. Means is a 57 year old former Justice Department employee serving 15 years for swindling. Evalyn Walsh McLean, Washington society hostess, lost $104000 on a Lindbergh baby recovery pretense and was stricken with a gall bladder attack Saturday night.
In Chicago Republicans face Borah in Idaho while Arkansas backs Robinson with two Democratic opponents. Ohio reports June NYA earnings total 323048 distributed among 24238 workers.
Columbus state education director Bowsher grants tentative approval for Alfred Holbrook College Manchester to confer the BA degree next year and start elementary teacher training programs.
Emergency crews pumped gas to Toledo consumers as the industrial peace board renewed its efforts to settle a strike that threatened gas service. Officials of Northern Ohio Natural Gas Co and Ohio Fuel Gas Co with union leaders said they were working to end the dispute affecting 300 workers and avoid service disruption.
Wallace L. Rapp aged 36 died of a heart attack while bathing in a pond near Akron yesterday. He collapsed and sank while carrying a small boy on his back. the boy swam to shore.
Berlin reports Joachim Von Rib Bentrop, a trusted aide of Adolf Hitler, has been appointed ambassador to London. The move marks a significant diplomatic posting for the Nazi regime as World War II tensions grow.
General John Metaxas with King George II’s approval took control in Greece declaring martial law. Parliament was dissolved elections postponed and workers mobilized amid a claimed Communist threat.
Washington is advised that drought will cut Ohio corn by about 55 million bushels from 1935, with an expected total of 102,312,000 bushels. Ohio wheat is forecast to fall by 18,000,000 bushels from last year, as of August 1.
Howard Hughes, millionaire sportsman and movie producer, landed his giant Flying Laboratory at Floyd Bennett Airport in New York after a flight from Los Angeles to Dayton and Dayton to New York. He ordered the ship placed in a hangar and then left by taxi for an unannounced destination.
Judge Harley M. Whitcraft, whose condition has been critical for weeks, was transported to a Columbus hospital today for further treatment and monitoring.
The Great Lakes Exposition will sponsor Clyde Pangborn in a nonstop mail flight from Cleveland to Paris about September 1. The U P report notes the plan was announced today.
Labor's Non-Partisan League launched a permanent organization to build a liberal labor or farmer labor party for 1940 while pledging support to President Roosevelt in November. George L. Berry was elected president with John L. Lewis as chairman. The league claims balance of power in multiple states and calls for a voter turnout strategy in Ohio targeting about 1,000,000 labor votes.
In Anniston Alabama a dragnet surrounds Ott Bush after an alleged baby kidnapping attempt. A sniper fired on a posse around Bush's home injuring three white men, two seriously, as Mrs. A L Williams reported the infant’s attempted abduction in Lloyds Chapel eight miles away.
Campaign headquarters obtained a court order to compel Rev. Alfred J. Wright of Cleveland to appear before a notary in Cleveland to answer about $100,000 he allegedly handled as Ohio State manager of OARP. Wright interrupted the Townsend convention demanding an accounting of $1,000,000 the OARP has taken in.
Washington district grand jury returns an indictment charging John Farnsworth and two Japanese naval officers as co conspirators with attempting to sell U S naval secrets to Japan. The case centers on alleged espionage activities involving secret information and wartime intelligence.
Edith Weston, once England's top female shot put and javelin star, wed Alberta Bray secretly in Plymouth after undergoing two sex reassignment operations at Charing Cross Hospital. A certificate released at the time states Weston is now male.
Twenty four thousand exhausted men and youths from city streets and relief projects battle fires in the great north central forests. Evacuations moved towns across Wisconsin Minnesota and Michigan fire zones. Crews dig ditches lay fire lanes and start small controlled fires to halt advancement. The Faith coast guard craft with eighteen passengers and two crew members sought at Isle Royale after going missing in smoke.
In Dallas Georgia Worth Brown shot to death Harry P Howe the man accused of killing Brown's sister Hattie Howe last April 26 Howe was being moved from jail to court for his murder trial when Brown, one of the victim's brothers, forced through the crowd and surrendered after firing.
Federal officials seized 13 pounds of opium aboard the freighter Black Tern in Boston port. The narcotic has a potential retail value of 150000 dollars. No arrests were made.
Gananoque Ontario United Press reports Mr Morton continues efforts to fix his duck that can swim only in circles due to webbing on one foot. He says the chances of the bird ever getting anywhere are poor.
Father Charles E. Coughlin will arrive in Cleveland Wednesday to attend the Great Lakes Exposition and address the National Union for Social Justice convention. President Roosevelt is also slated to visit Friday morning and send a telegram to Governor Davey.
Voters who sent Marion Anthony Zioncheck to Congress gather for his funeral with full military honors. A cannon at Fort Lawton will fire a 17 gun salute as the procession reaches the cemetery in Seattle.
Drought hit regions along the Arkansas River in Kansas brace for rising water after meteorologists forecast four feet due to cloudbursts in the Colorado mountains.
The Agriculture Department warns of the smallest corn crop in half a century and rising food prices. Domestic feed crops shrink, pasture conditions worsen, and Argentina may supply corn imports, with potential tariff moves debated to ease shortages.
Okey Shepard 40 WW veteran died after a me lee on Eastern Ave in Gallia County. Carl Webster 33 Pomeroy Negro in Gallia Jail on shooting charge likely to be charged with murder. Virginia Younger white sister in law held for driving while intoxicated. Police say Webster fired a automatic revolver six or seven times. Jake Bush narrowly escaped. Younger drove away then returned and was arrested.
Lancaster reports Mrs. Rosannah Barnes is named by Mayor Charles Moyer to fill the unexpired three year term of her husband John Barnes as city auditor.
Berlin reports Japan takes first in the Olympic mil meter event with the United States finishing second.
At the Texas Centennial event Governor Henry Horner of Illinois and Governor James V. Alfred of Texas stood beside Robert Wadlow of Alton Illinois known as Big Boy Wadlow. Wadlow 17 is 8 feet 5 inches tall and towers over the political leaders.
Madrid reports a violent clash as rebels execute four Germans en route to the Berlin Olympic Games. The event marks a high profile international incident amid the Spanish revolt, with government claims of control and ongoing evacuations of foreigners from Granada to Malaga.
Washington officials say the United States cannot join a neutrality pact in Spain's civil war. State Department experts note the neutrality act allows the president to declare neutrality between foreign wars but not in civil conflicts. No arms embargo is authorized for either side and material is readily available from neighboring countries.
Washington reports John Lewis committee for industrial organization defies AFL suspension threat. After AFL executive council ordered 10 of 13 unions out, the group announced there would be no policy change at a quiet last night meeting.
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