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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1931
Page
5
The department issues wrapping and packing rules for holiday parcels. Pack fragile items securely with heavy materials, mark fragile and perishable items, and limit length plus girth to 100 inches and weight to 70 pounds. Include complete addresses, a return card, prepaid postage, and insured valuables sent via registered mail when appropriate.
Dr. W H Verbeau of the State Hospital questioned Isaac Craft, a 43 year old farm hand, in the unsolved Decoration Day murders of Thelma Woods and Earl Truesdale in Lima. A former landlady reported washing a bloody shirt for Craft shortly after the killings, but she delayed reporting due to fear of accusation. Craft, a former inmate of Toledo State Hospital, denied knowledge and any shirt ownership and said he was not in Lima on May 30.
The Culbertson-Lenx contract bridge match gains national attention as radio rubbers are set to be broadcast from Hotel Chatham. Oswald Jacoby teams with Sidney Lenz against Culbertson and wife Josephine, in a 250 rubber contest scheduled for eight rubbers per evening on four nights weekly.
Dr D A Sebald of Middletown Ohio told a Cincinnati dental meeting that pyorrhea is not a gum disease but begins at the membrane securing the tooth to the jaw bone. He noted that popular opinion wrongly links it to gum infection and stressed the membrane as the starting point.
The text explains two treatments for advanced gum disease: extraction of the affected tooth or removal of the diseased membrane and bone, packing the area with a chemical preparation, then removal of the packing after a week or ten days. Over about two years, the bone and gum may return to normal.
Los Angeles December 4 40 Lowell Sherman stage and screen actor called a fat ol man and a ham actor by his wife Helen Coatello motion picture star in a divorce complaint filed today.
Frances Dover of McConnellville received a San Francisco message announcing the death of Elizabeth Dover, 30, wife of Eimer Dover, former secretary to the late Mark Hanna. The Devers, residing in Tacoma, were visiting their daughter Mrs. Gerald Todd in San Francisco when she died. Elizabeth is survived by her husband, the daughter, and two grandchildren.
The cross channel steamer Versailles en route from Dieppe to New Haven sent out distress signals as adverse weather and December seas hindered its voyage. Authorities coordinated rescue efforts and maritime officials tracked the vessel’s status.
In a gale the steamer drifted with a damaged rudder entry when a rescue boat from the harbor went out to aid the vessel and bring it safely in.
In Cleveland at the livestock show the Grand Champion Shorthorn shown by Vernon Benrouth of Vaughnaville Ohio was sold for beef at the Hollenden Hotel area. The 410 pound steer brought 90 cents a pound with proceeds to fund college tuition.
Chippewa Falls Wisconsin December 4 a 50 year old well digger identified as Vandalsem crawled from the bottom of a well on Sam Hathaway farm Dunn County after nine and a half hours trapped by a cave in rescuers freed him unharmed directing the efforts from buried position in a crowd of 250 nearby.
Toledo coroner Frank G. Kreft began an inquiry into the death of John L. McGeorge 44 labor leader and Plumbers' and Steamfitters' Union business agent who died from a hotel room shooting last Friday. The shooter Joseph Lovinger Columbus former Athens plumber says the shot was accidental.
William J. Ruof, vice-president of the First Central Trust Company in Akron, was moved to Cleveland to face a federal embezzlement charge. Officers say he confessed to $80,000 in missing funds, claiming two years of stock speculation led to the shortage.
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