30 Aug 1935
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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1935
Page
1
At Gare du Nord the Belgian royal cortege moves under draped stations and hush as the Astrid train bears the royal body. crowds stand in white flowers and candles while dignitaries and police accompany the solemn transfer from Lucerne to the palace. solemn ceremony unfolds with drums and Last Post echoing through a city of sorrow.
A brief notice indicates taxes are being assessed on a parcel or entity. The wording is fragmented and lacks clear names or dates.
Dr. Elmer D. West of Rutland Ohio and Harvard Graduate School of Education will conduct psychology and occupational guidance courses at Stoneleigh College Rye New Hampshire and will serve as provost in the new post.
Four convicted slayers were executed today, two in electric chairs and two on the gallows, with 30 day reprieves for two others. Alfred J. Lind died in Ossining New York for murdering Mrs. Bernice Farnsworth with an axe. Ben Boyd was electrocuted in Hunterville Texas for killing Robert Golightly. Eddie Gayman and Roy Hamilton were hanged at New Madrid Missouri for killing Arthur Cashion during an attempted robbery. Bill Barnes and Paul Nelson received reprieves from Gov Furtrell minutes before scheduled electrocution at Tucker Prison Farm Arkansas.
Franklin County relief headquarters says staff will be cut by about 100 as conditions allow. Many employees will be transferred to Works Progress Administration jobs, with totals depending on WPA absorption progress. State headquarters cannot estimate exact transfer or dismissal numbers.
Covington Kentucky report notes Piccolo Pete Murray once accused in an abduction was freed after Ontario release. Michael McCardell of Hammond Indiana confessed, ending Murray’s nearly eight month incarceration in Middlesex Jail London Ontario and local jails.
John K Powell 81, longtime Gallia County official and former state representative, died at his daughter's home in Gallipolis. He served as Gallia County treasurer. Burial will be in Gallipolis. Survivors include son Carleton of Akron.
An early morning dynamite explosion in the Hott Eddy in Deer Creek killed all the fish. Residents heard the blast for miles and the dynamiters fled before sportsmen could reach the scene.
Two masked men tied Sampson Smith the night watchman at Morgan Linen Service Company late Thursday night. They forced open the safe, obtained about 1500 dollars and fled the scene.
Cecil Allen, 33, dies as his Gee Bee crashes a mile from the Bendix Trophy start in Burbank while eight other planes push toward Cleveland and New York. Amelia Earhart and Col. Roscoe Turner lead the rest in the $12,500 event. finish deadline is 6 p.m. EST.
Dozens of planes poised for flight as Los Angeles Cleveland derbies near, with Bendix Transcontinental Derby entrants racing for a 12500 dollar purse. Some planes aim to set Los Angeles New York records while Akron hosts the finish and awaits Cleveland kickoff. Military teams prepare daily formation and maneuver demonstrations. Grace E Prescott of San Diego leads as Akron hosts final leg action.
Columbus Ohio two pension financing options were presented to the joint legislative taxation committee by Clarence Laylin an Ohio State University law professor. The plans propose using 3 1 million from liquor profits and a 1 gallonage tax and 2 7 million from profits after Sept 15 plus 760 thousand from the general fund. With 1 000 pension clients the estimated need is 5 777 000 to fund four months aided by possible federal social security help.
Zoarville residents prepare a farewell home coming as the village faces evacuation for the Muskingum watershed project. Hundreds of visitors and over 200 locals will attend a final gathering before the area becomes part of an artificial lake or railroad rights of way.
Federal agents led by Eliot Ness raided the Vandalia Avenue home nicknamed honeymoon cottage and seized a 400 gallon still 65 gallons of whiskey 3800 gallons of mash and 400 pounds of grape sugar They arrested a man on internal revenue violation charges in Cleveland.
Steubenville will host the Hopewell Methodist Episcopal Church as it observes its 150th anniversary, described as the oldest M E church west of the Alleghenies, with a sesquicentennial celebration on Sunday.
Mrs. Mary Appiano, 70, blocks hospital staff from setting a broken arm until a social worker finds care for her mongrel pup, which she says is all she has in the world.
Appleton Wisconsin crowd reports a mother, 33, walked into the Fox River carrying her two children James four and Carol 14 months. Police pulled her from the water and both children died despite rescue attempts. She was questioned at police headquarters by the DA coroner and police captain.
Bowling Green State College president Dr. B Williams dismissed a Sherrill Government Survey report criticizing raising Bowling Green and Kent State College to university rank. He argued the move placed the schools on par with older Ohio institutions and cited membership in standardizing agencies as evidence of quality.
Cleveland report states Federal Alcohol Tax Administrator Fred W Beltz warned wine makers they must secure permission from the alcohol tax unit before producing any wine for private consumption at home.
President Roosevelt signed a bill creating a new alcohol control administration in the Treasury to enforce a code banning false advertising and misrepresentation on labels. The bill prohibits sale of liquor in and from barrels, ending a long congressional dispute fueled by pro and anti prohibition factions and urging strong enforcement.
In Yazoo City Mississippi District Judge Martin Edwin K Holmes upheld the Roosevelt amended Agricultural Adjustment Act as constitutional and allowed processing tax provisions to stand. The ruling denied Stonewall Cotton Mills a temporary injunction stopping processing tax collection and marked the first test victory after amendments.
The American Federation of Teachers votes 100 to 79 against revoking the New York Teachers Local charter. William Green urges revocation claiming the local is controlled by Communists. The protest theme centers on autonomy for international unions.
President Roosevelt signed the Guffey Bill creating a Little NRA for soft coal. The act sets price controls and taxes, assigns a five member national commission to fix minimum prices, studies federal coal land retirement, and establishes a three member labor board to mediate disputes.
A high state official said scientists could testify the Hopewell body is Charles A. Lindbergh Jr. but Hauptmann’s defense did not challenge the ID. Hair from the body matched a Lindbergh lock, though the defense seeks a new trial. Members of the Lindbergh family nurse Betty Gow and physicians had identified the body.
Dr Erasmus Hudson, famed in the Lindbergh kidnapping case, states fingerprints cannot be compared to the body identified as the child because the hands were missing. In California, Hauptmann aide Fisher says a Long Island child resembling the Lindbergh baby may exist, and Keyes reveals the foundling institute fostered boy is being raised by a family.
Columbus readers learn a new law effective Sunday requiring merchants to seal duplicate sales slips with a notarial or corporate seal and imprint the weight, scale location, and the words inspected and sealed on delivery tickets. Police may stop coal loads for inspection. underweights up to forty pounds are short weight, with fines from 25 to 200 dollars for violators.
Hollywood report says Claudette Colbert secured a Mexican divorce from actor Norman Foster more than a week ago. Feldman, Colbert’s business manager, described the divorce as final and notes the Paris born star married Foster about eight or nine years ago after their stage pairing in The Barker on Broadway.
Mrs Jesse Taylor hitchhiked from Steubenville to Cadiz claiming hunger and forced entry to visit husband Sheriff Archer F Hedges admitted her but moved her to a different floor after a window crash. She insisted the jail lock her up and her husband, awaiting federal grand jury action, was on the second floor.
Two men held up the First National Bank and Trust Company in Springfield taking more than 50 000. They tied up a bank auditor Clifford R. Davis and messenger William E. Brisley then fled after forcing faces toward the south. Witness William Rubin recalled a machine gun and a demand for silence as the robbers loaded money into a car and drove northwest. Police and federal agents pursued, with no match to gangster Alvin Karpis.
Washington officials note a potential Borah versus Knox contest for the 1936 Republican nomination. Leaders say predictions are premature but acknowledge Borah has been meeting with Western state GOP figures while avoiding the Hoover faction as an irreconcilable split develops.
Social workers seek a solution in the case of Adam Hufnagie 72 Cincinnati's most arrest ed man. Records show he has been in custody 62 times since 1931.
COSHOCTON Robert Mythen a Labor Department mediator predicted a peaceful settlement of a labor dispute that had threatened a city wide strike. He conferred with Novelty Advertising Company officials and 122 pressmen who walked out a week ago.
The Sherrill Government Survey recommended abolishing the State Cosmetology and Others Examiners Boards to end taxation of the industry and the public which is unjustified.
Premier Laval weighs France position on Ethiopia as the League of Nations Council prepares to meet next week. Britain calls for a stand against invasion while Italy presses for noninterference. London awaits Roosevelt’s stance on US neutrality law and Geneva program plans advance.
British French and Greek legations assured no panic feed and promised at least a fortnight warning if Italian invasion loomed. Italy would warn Britain and France before any war. Evacuation of remaining nationals only in greatest peril, as legations bolster protection for their own. German minister Holtes overseeing bomb proof dugout and emergency supplies.
Las Cruces New Mexico flooded as Rio Grande area rose up to four feet with about 6 000 residents seeking shelter on high ground from a night of heavy rain. Mayor J Benson Newe says there was no loss of life but many fled their homes. Debris and rainfall from mesas east of town caused runoff into the city. Deputy Sheriff Fred Brookeson called it the worst flood since 1875.
The State Fair rolled into the home stretch today with two horse show sessions to finish judging. Officials welcomed about 125000 attendees in a peak one day crowd at the coliseum. The cattle auction on Governor's Day drew top prices for 500 head.
Manchester reports a spectator, 40 year old Maxon Howland, killed after being struck by a soap-box derby car. He stepped onto the course as a car sped by, suffering a skull fracture in the collision.
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