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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1922
Page
9
Hope runs high in Jackson as 45 trapped Argonaut miners near rescue from Kennedy shaft. Weathered by fire and heat, efforts focus on a safe entry while ice clears and shaft repairs proceed. State official F L Lowell believes the miners survive, bulkheaded below with air for now.
Indications this afternoon suggest joint negotiations to settle the anthracite strike would resume at once in Philadelphia with talks expected to restart promptly.
The federal fuel committee allocated 50,000 tons of western Kentucky coal to Michigan for industrial uses marking an energy distribution move amid wartime era policies.
Terre Haute Ind Aug 31 Twenty eight Indiana coal mines along the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul route closed today due to car shortages. The Chicago and Eastern Illinois and other railroads serving the coal district were also reported to have trouble securing enough cars to keep mines operating.
Senator Lodge of Massachusetts challenged Secretary Mellon’s claim that the treasury cannot fund the soldiers’ bonus. He called the idea that the pending bill would embarrass or bankrupt the treasury idle and absurd in an afternoon Senate speech.
Aug 31 Chicago police report arrest of four men halted a plot to dynamite the Western Express train from New York to Chicago. Investigators seek two more suspects and a large cache of explosives believed hidden in the city. The plan aimed to wreck trains between Gary Indiana and Chicago, part of a broader terror scheme. Prices rise for bituminous coal in New York to 14 dollars per ton, with Illinois prices at 9.50 per ton.
President Harding informed Senator Newberry that he plans to lay the cornerstone of a new Masonic temple in Detroit on September 18. He also anticipated a visit to Cleveland the next day.
In Del Norte Col attorney Joss Stephenson and District Judge Whiley engaged in a heated exchange during a trial. Stephenson urged higher fines and the judge imposed escalating contempt penalties ending with a total of 50 dollars paid by Stephenson.
Walton Volk and Beram Miller, both from the Bucyrus high school 1921 class, are walking to Golden, Colorado to enter the Colorado School of Mines this fall.
Ada Reed, a young waitress, saved her eight-year-old daughter, then returned through flames to rescue Thomas Conner, a blind man, from an upstairs apartment before dawn. She wrapped in a blanket and carried him to safety as the blaze consumed her home.
St. Louis reports in Missouri that Edgar Gengenbach, a farm owner, pays a $20 check to each mother during visits by the stork at his Southeast Missouri property. Last month three checks were sent to cotton tenants' area, with about thirty African American tenants involved. Gengenbach defends the program as a sound investment and welfare effort, expressing satisfaction with loyalty and service.
Ottawa reports 1000 head from Canada's Wainwright park herd may be slaughtered and their meat sold in U S and Canadian markets. The herd once at 6146 head is the world’s largest, with a 700 head nucleus from Montana’s Michael Pablo.
In Cincinnati Ohio on August 31 a driver offering liquor to motorists was stopped by two Whitewater township constables. He was found with a gallon jug of moonshine in his cart and fined 100 dollars plus costs by Magistrate Oliver Swisher.
The House passed a measure to curb extortionate coal prices for winter. It creates a federal coal distributor, expands Interstate Commerce Commission powers, and uses coal car distribution to check prices. It moves to the Senate.
Escaped with life after incident as Miss Mabel Marsh, Republican nominee for local office, is reported from Elyria on August 31. Details of the escape are sparse, but the nomination stands as announced amid unfolding events in the city.
Chinese women largely go bare headed but the younger flapper trend shifts toward European hair styles and hats. Shanghai reports indicate the change is already evident and demand for women’s hats may rise in coming years.
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