Relief leaders urge careful relief and garment center plan
Athens County relief leaders converge at Chamber of Commerce rooms urged careful coordination of effort to avoid waste. They discussed creating a garment center to sort and distribute clothes, while stressing responsible budgeting and avoiding overlapping relief work. Community groups including the Community Welfare Association and Red Cross attended.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Howard A. Ht
Nai Conference of Social Work
Athens County
Chamber Pierce
Weaders
Mselves
Robert C. Hess
Community Welfare Association
Kens County
Community Welfare Associaton
Adsory Council
Adjt
Bernard Stone
Salvation Army
Miss Pearl French
Ilsve
Red Cross F
Red Cross
Dean Irma Voigt
O Bers
Boy Scout
Girl Out
Sale of auto license tags hits seventy hundred in Athens
Total licenses sold in Athens reached 700 after Thursday's sale of 81 licenses. David Anson, registrar, reports 1932 tags sold to date with $1299.75 in license fees. The Ohio Electric Company order included 42 licenses, including 11 passenger cars, 7 trailers, and 2 trucks.
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Athens
David Anson
Athern Ohio Electric Company
Police Tag Eighteen Cars in Two Hour Parking Ration
Athens police tagged eighteen cars for two hour parking violations on Friday. Three owners were fined one dollar each by Mayor Bert Wood. W. J. McGuire W. Brooks and P. S. Shurroger, all of Athens, were fined. Several others appeared before Mayor Wood. out of town violators were given warnings.
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Athens
Bert
Hope to End Hiccups For Lorain Girl
Lorain Ohio December 18. Mif red Jarznick 16 has been hiccuping for a week and may undergo an operation to cure the ailment doctors at St Josephs hospital said today.
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Hiccoughs Lorain, CO
U.P
Mifred Jarznick
St. Joseph’s Ospital
Christmas keeps joy when markets grow lean
Ferris Booth pens a quip about Christmas lasting forever while depressions fade. Joseph H. Appel markets holiday cheer as cost effective, promising shoppers more value and happiness with every purchase this season.
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Ferris Booth
Wall Street
Joseph H. Appel
New York
Early to bed and rise, or you’ll go bust if you don’t advertise
The Prince of Wales urged an association of traveling salesmen to advertise or risk failure, noting the value of early effort with a brisk American inflection in the remark.
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Prince OF Wales
Tragic Death Diary of 14 Year Old Justina Uherek
A 14 year old girl, Justina Uherek, living with her widow mother near the East River in New York, died by gas. In a final note she penned the line The waves of the ocean are full of love indicating a troubled mind and mysterious thoughts.
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Justina Uherek
East River
New York
Detectives Say A Girl Died By Her Own Choice
Detectives state they believed the girl took a notion to die and delayed informing her mother until 10 o clock at night. The report continues on page 4.
Legs Diamond Shot Dead in Albany Shootout
Veteran racketeer Jack Legs Diamond was gunned down in a Dove Street room after a night celebrating his Troy acquittal. Police found few details as investigators probed the killing of the known gang leader who had survived multiple prior ambushes and shootouts.
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Albany
N. Y
Jack
Legs
Diamond
Troy
Dove Street
Augie’ Orgen
Monticello
New York
Saratoga Inn
Catskills
Truck Kills Children Near Culloden After Church Play
A truck crashed into a group of schoolchildren leaving the First Baptist Church of Culloden injuring multiple youths. Victims include Artis Foster 16 Richard Leak 15 and Minos Turley 14 with two dead and others hurt. driver Hayes Jackson 25 and companion O E Swann 25 detained, Jackson said to have been drinking.
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Huntington
W. Va
U.R
Culloden
Here
Artis Foster
Richard Leak
Minos Turley
Hayes Jackson
O. E. Swann
Milton
Cabell County
Jackson
First Baptist
Sunday Messenger Want Ads Telephone Instructions
All Want Ads for Sunday editions must be phoned in before 3 p m Saturday Ad takers handle details at Athens 0243 Nelsonville 412 W or Logan 272 ask for an ad taker and place your notice to reach over eleven thousand responsive homes in the Messenger Trade Domain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Messenger
Athens
Nelsonville
Logan
Final Vote on Moratorium Near as Hoover Seeks Cooperation
President Hoover summoned key congressional leaders to the White House for breakfast urging bipartisan action on his war debt moratorium and financial bills. Democratic Leader Rainey pledged to keep the House in session until the moratorium bill passes, with a final vote expected before midnight. The administration also seeks more capital for Federal Land Banks and reconstruction finance powers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
White House
Republcans
Federal Farm Loan Bank
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Rainey
House
Postwar Loans Story From Banker Thomas
Washington dispatch reports Thomas outlines the vast billions loaned to foreign nations and their citizens under the postwar financial operation led by American bankers. The narrative covers sources, mechanisms, and implications of these international loans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
U.R
Thomas
Lamneck proposes deposit guarantee in Federal Reserve reform
Rep. Arthur P. Lamneck introduces a bill to guarantee bank deposits with member banks contributing $3 per $1,000 of average daily deposits and funds redirected via the Federal Reserve Bank to cover depositors in failing banks. The aim is to restore public confidence through government backing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
U.P
Federal Reserve Banking Act
Arthur P. Lamneck
Columbus Democrat
Congress
Rep
Lamneck
Federal Reserve System
Federal Reserve Bank
Japan says punitive expedition in Manchuria may press toward Chin Chow
War Office says Japanese troops in Manchuria were ordered to undertake an extensive punitive expedition west of the Liao River in the Chin Chow area. Nippon Dempo cites Marshal Chang Hsenh-Liang warning of an imminent Japanese attack on Chin Chow and ordering Gen. Jung Chen to resist to the bitter end.
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Tokio
U.R
War Office
Manchuria
Chinchow
Liao River
Tientsin
Nippon Dempo
Chang Hsenh-Liang
Jung Chen
Pomeroy Man in Federal Liquor Case
James Allen of Pomeroy Ohio, 55, pleaded not guilty to charges of possession, sale, transportation of liquor, conspiracy, and maintaining a nuisance. Arrested after agents found a large amount of liquors in a Columbus hotel room. Hearing set for January 4. Bond set at $1,000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
U.P
James Allen
Pomeroy
United States
Joseph W. Horner
Allen
Prohibition
Four Confess Ohio Murder in Circleville case
Four suspects from Columbus confessed to the December 10 murder of 75 year old John Kidney, the beating of his 70 year old sister, and a $446 robbery at the Kidney home in Monroe Township. The group named Henry Ludermilk 47 Lacey Adams 38 John Hairston 27 and Frank Smith 37 as confessors with Walker Brown 35 called Slim Youngen alleged as the actual killer. Brown, six foot four and 210 pounds, refused to answer.
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Circleville
U.pr
John Kidney
Monroe Township
Sarah
Columbus
Pickaway County
Henry C. Ludermilk
Lacey Adams
John Hairston
Frank Smith
Walker Brown
Slim
Youngen
Brown
Two Enter Death Pact In Indianapolis Crime Note
In Indianapolis on December 18 evangelist Mrs Bernice Owens widow was found slumped in a chair near death from a temple wound. On the floor lay Arthur S Long 55 with a bullet through the brain and a revolver in his right hand. Authorities say Long shot Owens and then killed himself suggesting a death pact.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
Ind
U.P
Bernice Owens
Arthur S. Long
Long
Democrats consider world tariff conference to trim duties
Washington reports Democrats may propose a world tariff conference to scale down duties by all nations. The idea has gained favor among policy committee members though broad Hawley Smoot Act revision this year is unlikely. A public counsel to represent consumers before the tariff commission may also be sponsored.
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Washington
U.P
Congressional
Tariff Commission
Gas Tax Money Here From State For Ath Enns County
County Auditor J Clyde Edmundson reports a weekly gasoline tax intake of 23640 for Ath ens County. December distribution totals 15800 to the county with 7840 to be shared among 14 townships.
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J. Clyde Edmundson
Athens County
Miners, Governor Operate Toward Coal Region Settlement
Nelsonville December 18 Governor George White assured ongoing conciliation efforts by state officials to ease miner operator tensions in the Hocking and Sunday Creek valleys. Mayors Wood Hickman Allen Hines Toliver Surgen met after a Methodist Church session pledging cooperation as four Millfield Mine No 6 workers rehired and a broader peace quest continued with a continuing committee to seek settlement.
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Nelsonville
Hocking
Sunday Creek
George White
Methodist Men's Club
Millfield
Sunday Creek Coal Company
White
Robert 8. Wood
Athens
J. W. Hickman
Repairing Trestle as Piles Are Driven for Damaged Span
Wooden piles are being driven to replace 30 feet of trestle damaged by Sunday and Monday's high water. With the river receding to normal, excavation for the north pier is complete and forms for the pier are to be started today per BE F Lackey of C R Boulton, contractor.
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BE. F. Lackey
C. R. Boulton
Akron man Joseph Stein held again on music copyright charge
Joseph Stein of Akron was arrested again in Cleveland on the same charge of selling reprinted popular songs without permission of the copyright owners. He had been fined $100 in Federal Court the previous year for the same offense.
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Cleveland
U.P
Joseph Stein
Akron
Akron banker Rouf faces embezzlement charges in federal grand jury
Cleveland December 18 The Federal Grand Jury considered charges against William J Rouf former vice president of the First Central Trust Company Akron for embezzlement He admitted taking more than 400000 in a two year series of speculations
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Cleveland
Federal Grand Jury
William J. Rouf
First Central Trust Company
Akron
Will's Letter Hints At Next Week's Events In Chinchow
A wartime note from Will warns readers to expect行动 in Chinchow next week. He jokes about disruptions as bandits target travel from Mukden to Peking and laughs at plans to join students in China while searching for Oxford fraternity pins.
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Chinchow
Will
Dairen
Mukden
Peking
Claremore Oklahoma
China
Oxford
Kidnappers Free Rich Captive in Kansas City
Mrs. Nel Quinlan Donnelly, prominent Kansas City businesswoman and head of Donnelly Garment Company, was released after almost 38 hours in captivity by three kidnappers. She recounted the abduction on Wednesday night and imprisonment in a house near Kansas City, Kansas. Family sources said no ransom was paid. kidnappers had demanded 75000 dollars for her return.
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Kansas City
Bdee
U.P
Nel Quinlan Donnelly
Veterans Entertainment by Ohio University Playshop at Chillicothe
Wednesday night six Ohio University Playshop students plus Al Lewis and Charles Gresale toured to Chillicothe to entertain three hundred disabled World War veterans at the Veterans Hospital. The Red Cross sponsors monthly programs for veterans with five short comedies titled The Foulies of 1931.
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Red Cross
Ohio University Playshop
al Lewis
Charles Gresale
Chillicothe
Veterans Hospital
Jack Swanson
Mildred Finnicum
Don Roush
Helen Anderson
Harry Schreiber
Phillip Lowther
Playshop
Harold Evans
Funeral set for ex congressman Charles C. Kearns
Amelia Ohio prepares for funeral services for Charles C. Kearns 62 former Republican congressman from the sixth district and ally of Harding and Longworth. He died yesterday from uremic poisoning with services scheduled Sunday at 2 30 p m in the local M E Church.
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Amelia
Charlies C. Kearns
Warren G. Harding
Nicholas Longworth
M. E
Kearns
Weather roundup for Jacksonville Miami and other locales
Yesterday's highs ranged from 74 to 80 degrees at Jacksonville Miami and Los Angeles. Tonight temperatures drop to single digits below zero in several locations with Grand Junction near zero and general forecast calls for fair conditions over the next 36 hours.
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AMI
Jacksonville
Miami
Angeles
the River
Gochrane
Grand Junction
Santa Plans Three Movies and Toy Fund Drive Show
Santa Claus joins the Majestic Theater for a big morning show featuring Krazy Kat Mickey Mouse and an Our Gang Comedy. He announces admission by a donated toy and a charity drive to benefit the Salvation Army Red Cross and Messenger Toy Shop with four days of matinees at Ohio Theater featuring John Barrymore's The Genius.
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Santa Claus
Messenger Toy Shop
Majestic
BE. R. Custer
The
Ohio Theater
the Ohio
John Barrymore
Miners Rally in Chauncey Over Open Shop in Ohio Coal Field
Delegates from Hocking and Sunday Creek Valleys in Chauncey condemn open shop non union policy and cut throat price practices by coal operators. They press for joint conference to fix a union wage scale, seek relief for workers refused reemployment at Millfield Mine No. 6, and pledge to back American labor principles while warning business leaders and politicians not to interfere with miners’ rights.
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C. H. Bartlett
Nelsonville
Ohio
Hocking
Sunday Creek
Chauncey
Svmle
United Mine Workers of America
Hoover
Governor White
Hocking Valley
Ing
Great American Labor Movement
Gi American Federation of Labor
Elmer & Herman Theisen
W 0 Morris
Arthur Levering
John Jens
Kari Gardner
Gilbert Woore
Middleport Man Shot as Gun in Son's Hands Misfires
Oscar Mossman, Middleport garage owner, was treated for a bullet wound to the right shoulder after a .25 caliber pistol in the hands of his 17 year old son Kenneth discharged accidentally. Dr. Raymond Boice said the injury was minor and Mossman could return to the garage. Sheriff A O Tracy confirmed the shooting was accidental after speaking with the Mossman home.
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Middleport
Oscar Mbssman
Kenneth
Raymond Boice
Mossman
A. O. Tracy
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Iiment Center
Relief organiBtion
Justina
King Features, Inc
Lamont
W. Lamont
J. P. Morgan and Co
Senate Finance Committee
House of Morgan
Robert S. Wood
Rich
Kansas City Garment Company
Santa
Marx Brothers
Phil Lowther
Toter Field
Bernard Johnson
Delia Dorsey
Teenie
Kempton
Organization of Business and
Acale
Millfield Mine No. 6
Lee Hall
David Watkins
George W. Savage
Percy Tetlow
John Saxton
Salineville
John Cinque
Bellaire
Tokin
Lye House
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