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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1932
Page
6
Mrs W H Logan entertained numerous friends with a formal dinner and dance at the Hotel Berry on Wednesday night in celebration of her husband’s birthday anniversary. Tables were set for forty with yellow and white chrysanthemums and candles, and music was provided by the Brooks Golden orchestra.
Mr and Mrs Dwight Meighen of Columbus announce the birth of a daughter Barbara Ann at Radium Hospital on November 3 The couple are former Athens residents and Ohio University attendees The child is the granddaughter of Mr and Mrs A Meighen of Athens and Mr and Mrs T Moore of Columbus Delta Kappa Sorority notes pledges Edna Mann of Graysville and Wilda Biddy of Woodfield Cub Scouts meet at 7 pm tonight in First M E Church club room all members expected
Coover Staats hosted a Christmas themed party for seven year old guests at 87 Maplewood Drive. The event featured candy house decor, a Santa scene, a cake with seven pink candles, and party favors. Attendees included Evang Fitzgerald Billy Trautwein Paul Wiehards Grant Ferguson Donald Ferguson Robert Lee Susan McQuiston Riza Wyatt Jack Davidson John Stout Biddle Brown and teachers Miss Mabel Carr and Miss Louisa Steele from East Side School.
Howard Walden, St Mill Street, became the first purchaser of a set of 195 automobile license tags at the Courthouse office of deputy registrar David Johnson this morning. Other early buyers included Harry Kelley of Neisonville, who received 301 401 and 0 402. tags were mailed to Dr. T R Biddle and W N Alderman in Florida and to Michael J Heaney, Belleville New Jersey.
A friendly column muses on how readers seek different books for many reasons from sleep to appetite. It notes Dickens and Eliot scenes arouse hunger and desire, contrasts Christmas dinner scenes with Scrooge, and ends with a call for the Woman's Belief Corps meeting Friday at 7 pm to elect officers.
Ohio State University won the seventh annual Inter collegiate Meat Judging Contest at The International Livestock Exhibition and took the National Livestock and Meat Board trophy. The Ohio team scored 2334 of 2700 with Paul SchepfIn, Edward Sidner, and Pauline Trout, coached by Prof. R O Roth.
Ohio Supreme Court today upheld the refusal of William H. Rinehart to pay $10,000 for the Miller Blue Hole and surrounding acres in Sandusky County set as a fish breeding ground. Rinehart and former Agriculture Director I. B. Guthery argued the property was not worth that sum and the contract was not carried out. The court sustained a demurrer to Miller's writ of mandamus.
London authorities cut street lighting in outlying districts as an economy move. Residents walk with oil lanterns to the public square and shops report booming sales of ancient oil burners in response.
A new cane of scarlet fever in Waterloo Township was reported the morning to Dr. J. M Higgins, county health commissioner.
London reports the new war debt note cabled to Washington seeks postponement of the 95.5 million dollar payment due December 15. Britain hopes the United States will delay the payment, with a gold option if needed. Stanley Baldwin warned against harmful remarks while noting U S friendliness and stating information must await House of Commons.
Cleveland Ohio is the scene as Sheriff Salzmann faces removal following a Supreme Court mandate. Officials would not confirm attempts to delay the order by one month, which would postpone enforcement until Salzmann’s term ends and the new sheriff takes office.
The Lake Shore Electric Railway Co. lost its appeal in the Ohio Supreme Court from an Ohio Public Utilities Commission ruling. It must obtain a certificate of convenience as a motor truck operator to use its Bonnar Rail Wagon, a trailer hauled by a tractor that carries freight on highway segments between Cleveland and Toledo and then loads onto railroad cars.
Col Charlies Lindbergh, famed for the first New York Paris flight, now backs practical ocean crossing air travel. As Pan American technical committee chair he helped design six clipper type transports able to carry passengers or freight from the United States to Europe or the Orient, larger than any current commercial craft.
A second series of gas explosions ripped through the northern Montreal district causing widespread alarm and extensive damage from sewer ruptures. The article notes a 5 percent wage cut for all salaries in the French Ministry of Finance.
The Justice Department and the Budget bureau request funds to continue prohibition enforcement without repeal changes. The Budget estimate asks 0,504.04 for the fiscal year starting July 1, matching this year’s level, while the Justice Department sought 1,221,643. Attorney General Mitchell and Prohibition Director Woodcock presented the smaller budget to the House. Speaker Garner is hopeful for repeal support when the House meets, with canvassers predicting 275 votes if enough members are present.
ST LOUIS Mo Dec 1 The Shells Petroleum Corporation announces a share the work plan in which employees at all divisional sales offices will work 40 hours a week instead of 4 no pay reduction planned. The program affects 25000 employees nationwide and 1100 in St Louis.
In Richmond Virginia Judge Robert N Pollard ordered Stewart Warner Corp to pay Marvin Smithey Mecklenburg County lawyer a royalty of 344 cents on each speedometer manufactured or delivered for Ford automobiles since 194.
In Columbus, Ohio the appeal of a cent per gallon rate order by the Columbus Gas & Fuel Co. reached the Ohio Supreme Court after the city filed a petition in error challenging the increase. The city had sought a rehearing of the commission’s Monday decision, which denied the request.
Britain's new request to postpone the December 1 war debt payment of 95.5 million dollars was expected to be delivered to the State Department by Ambassador Sir Ronald Lindsay. Lawmakers anticipated the British argument as opposition to extending the moratorium on debt payments continued in Congress.
In San Francisco on December 1 1930 Mrs Lucy Dobson sought a divorce from Starrett W Dobson apartment house owner after alleging two kisses in two years were insufficient. Judge Frank H Dunne granted the divorce in superior court.
Groucho Marx explains why Harpo Marx will visit Moscow to perform for Soviet audiences. He jokes Harpo bought his harp on the five year plan and says the invitation stems from that decision.
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