Oberlin official Saint in remarks on city electric plant
A city council discussion in Athens featured Sears from Oberlin addressing public ownership of utilities. He warned against hasty municipal control and urged trained analysis, citing costs for engineering, survey work, and street services while arguing public power could save money. Public debate continued with focus on fair rates and data-driven decisions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Athens
Sears
Oberlin
B. McCune
Fie
Court Costa
Atttc
Fire damages trees and cow on Rusmar property
Fire swept through brush near a garage on R Street around 11 20 morning damaging trees and burning near a cow tied on Charles Rusmar’s property. Athens fire crews responded as the blaze spread with Fire Chief E R Laugh noting the department was briefly away for lunch.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Rusmar
R Street
Athens
Columbia
Russell
E. R. Laugh
Rusell
Death in Floes on River EN
A seaplane attempted rescue as two men battled icy river floes. They scrambled between ice chunks then leaped for safety after drifting hours in frigid water. One man was saved, the other presumed dead.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
EN. J
Local Messenger Office Seeks Better Cheerful Tone
Fragmentary notes describe a Messenger department aiming for a brighter, more cheerful voice in its reporting and internal communications. The text hints at staff efforts to improve tone and engagement.
Toy Shop Seeks 500 Dolls for Christmas Drive
Mrs. Eugene Shafer appeals to Athens residents to supply 500 dolls for the Toy Shop to fulfill letters from hundreds of children. She urges inexpensive dolls, delivery from local merchants, and a countywide toy collection with a Christmas parade featuring the Ohio University Vested Choir and Santa Claus.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Santa Claus
Santa
Athens
Ohio University Vested
C. C. Robinson
Court Street
Joan Darnell
Knights of Pythias
Extortion Case Hearing Held in Athens
Harry Hudson age 22 of 31 Second Street Athens was taken under advisement by Common Pleas Judge O F Rowland. He is indicted for extortion over threats sent last May to W H Logan Athens businessman demanding 344 in a package at the Children’s Home. Logan complied with paper used by officers who hid nearby. Hudson confronted confessed he planned and executed the scheme alone.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry Hudson
Second Street
Athens
Common Pleas
O. F. Rowland
Athens County
W. H. Logan
Rowland
Hudson
Logan
Mr. Logan
Huey’s 33 Bills Could Rule 15000 Louisiana Teachers
Baton Rouge Dec 18 The Huey Long drive aims to place 15000 Louisiana school teachers under a Long controlled board. The 33 bills would take effect 20 days after Thursday if enacted by the special legislative session. The joker bill grants the budget committee power over teacher appointments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baton Rouge
Louisiana
Huey Long
Budget Committee
City seeks power to write own traffic speed laws
Columbus officials plan to ask the 1st General Assembly in January to amend state law. Council President Frank Karns would seek permission for charter cities to set their own traffic rules, citing many fatalities linked to the current 35 mile per hour limit within corporate limits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Frank Karns
General Assembly
Hurst Trial Over Misused City Funds Upheld
New Philadelphia witnesses testified as the trial of former mayor William F. Hurst on charges of misapplication of funds totaling 1557 dollars proceeded. Jury selection and opening arguments framed the proceedings in the case against the ex-official.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New
Philadelphia
William F. Hurst
Will Rogers advocates national resources plan to end planning
A Beverly Hills radio segment discusses a proposal by the national resources board to spend 105 billion dollars, calling it a plan to end all planning. Will Rogers argues it would overwhelm critics who complain about a debt of 28 billion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beverly Hills
Calif
Salvation Army
National Resources Board
Will
Rogers
Denver Attorney Named in Urschel Ransom Plot
An affidavit outlines how Ben Laska, a Denver attorney, allegedly received part of the Charles Urschel ransom. Laska, longtime defense attorney for Albert Bates, is in custody amid charges with James Mathers of Oklahoma City for sharing the loot. The affidavit centers on Bates' stepson Edward Feldman and Feldman’s wife Clara, detailing arrangements to stash 75 000 dollars in Wyoming and a map to the buried treasure, plus a 10 000 dollar payment for expenses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denver
Colo
Ben Laska
Charles F. Urschel
Laske
Albert L. Bates
Oklahoma City
Laska
James C. Mathers
Edward G. Feldman
Bates
Feldman
Clara Feldman
Wyoming
Night in Paris Event Planned by Legion and Auxiliary
Members of the K. T. Crossen Post of the American Legion and the Auxiliary plan a Wednesday meeting at the Legion home to collect imperishable foods for Christmas baskets for needy ex servicemen. They will also promote the Night in Paris Ball at Hotel Berry on December 29 with informal seating and no reservations. Proceeds support child welfare. tickets sold by sponsoring members. A department commander dinner date will be set, and a meal is organized by R. H. White, Fred Williams, G. D. Gorham, John DeMolet, and Arthur Sprague.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
K. T. Crossen
American Legion
Auxiliary
Legion
Paris
Legion and
Hotel Berry
R. H. White
Fred Williams
G. D. Gorham
John DeMolet
Arthur Sprague
Logan Accident Victim Remains Unconscious
Henry Watson, injured in a Sunday morning automobile crash, remains unconscious at Cheriton Hospital. Funeral arrangements for Mrs. Watson set for 2 p.m. Wednesday at their Front Street home. The body to lie in the Oak Grove Cemetery receiving vault before burial.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Logan
Henry Watson
Cherrington Hospital
Yugoslav cabinet resigns after Hungarian crisis settlement
Belgrade reports the entire Yugoslav cabinet resigns today following the resignation of Foreign Minister Bogolyub Yevitch who led talks at Geneva on the crisis with Hungary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yugoslavia
Belgrade
Bogolyub Yevitch
Geneva
Hungary
Washington Expert Praises Efforts Despite NIRA Failures
Dr. Theodore Beckman of Ohio State University told the Men's Faculty Club at Ohio University that while relief and reform have seen effort, actual recovery remains limited. He cited the Beckman Report surveying 2000 manufacturers to argue private business support is needed and that small businesses dominate employment. He warned credit shortages strain textiles and food manufacturers and that the NIRA lacks sound economic principles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
NIRA
Theodore N. Beckman
Ohio State University
Ohio University
Washington
Beckman
United States
Clover Stores Names Leaders At Southern Ohio Meeting
Clover Farm Stores district leaders were named at the final 1934 general meeting in Hotel Berry with 250 present. Board members for six months were elected as J. A. Isselstein, Harold Seifert, J. W. Kimball, George Verfers, Bartel Franz, and others. </analysis>
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clover Farm
Southern Ohio
Hotel Berry
Hall Chapman
Coolville
Lester H. Lipton
Cleveland
Glenn E. Greene
C. H. Beasley
R. C. Hess
B. F. Davis
F. J. Beasley Co
Holsum Products Co
Fortune Zerega Co
Loose Wiles Biscuit Co
Pickerington Creamery Co
David Davies Packing Co
Zanesville Provision Co
William Fean & Co
J. A. Isselstein
Deanville
Harold Seifert
Lancaster
J. W. Kimball
New Lexington
George Verfers
Corning
Bartel Franz
Jackson
N. Hamilton
Middlepoort
Chris Handley
Sugar Creek
Giles & McIntorf
Pennsville
Rudolph Steinmeyer
New Marshfield
H. T. Fitzgerald
Marietta
Business Men To End Exile From Government Councils
Washington dispatch reports Roosevelt administration rejects a demand from Edison Electric Institute for speedier TVA related power policy tests. The institute urges industry self reform including rate reductions and ending malpractices before government and power interests cooperate on policy. The White House assigns the memorial to the Federal Power Commission for response.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Roosevelt
Supreme Court
Thomas N. McCarter
Edison Electric Institute
Tennessee Valley Authority
White House
TVA
Frank R. McNinch
Federal Power Commission
McNinch
Fr Coughlin Fined For 50 MPH Drive In 35 Zone
Fr Charles E Coughlin, pastor of the Shrine of the Little Flower in Royal Oak, paid a 15 dollar bond after failing to answer a charge of driving 50 miles an hour in a 35 mph zone on Woodward Avenue. A second charge of operating a car without a driver’s license was dismissed when he renewed his expired license.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ferndale, Mich
Charles E. Coughlin
Shrine of the Little Flower
Royal Oak
Woodward Avenue
Coughlin
Boy Stolen With Car Found Unharmed In Tyler
Ray Larsson a 3 year old was abducted when his father Basso Larison left him in a car. Federal agents and 50 possemen pursued the thief all night and found the machine near Courthouse Square with the boy unharmed inside.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tyler
Texas
Ray Larsson
Basso Larison
Ray
Larison
Auto victim recovering in Marietta hospital
Durwood Trippett age 17 from Mount Clare West Virginia is in a local hospital in Marietta with a skull fracture and a broken right leg after being struck by a car near Belpre Ohio. Surgeons say he is recovery-bound.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marietta
Dec
Durwood Trippett
Mount Clare
W. Va
Belpre
Share a Christmas Eagles Toy Shop Drives Help
Area drives seek toys money and candy for Christmas baskets and stockings. Mrs Eugene Shafer Virgil Davis head the East Carpenter Court Streets effort while Salvation Army Adjt W W Hinshaw directs donations at 92 West Union Street.
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Eagles’ Toy Shop
Carpenter and
Court Streets
Eugene Shafer
Virgil Davis
Salvation Army
West Union Street
Adjt
W. W. Hinshaw
Murray City
Ladies’ Auxiliary No
Ruth Carsner
28 More Face Guns of Soviet Squads
Soviet Russia executed 28 alleged terrorists after conviction following the Dec 3 assassination of Sergei Kiroff in Lenirad. One woman spared for further investigation. the group reportedly included individuals who entered from Poland and Romania with bombs and weapons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sergei Kiroff
Lenirad
Poland
Rumania
Skull Cracks From Auto Crank Attack In Radcliff Area
Earl Cottrill of Radcliff, 42, was rushed to Holzer Hospital with a fractured skull after a blow from an automobile crank during a highway assault near Radcliff. His son Clovis, 17, aided in transport. Cottrill's wife Mrs Cottrill and daughter Ardis, 20, visited the hospital as relatives and officials investigated the assault linked to Clovis Cottrill and local residents. Magistrates pursued charges as a sheriff ordered arrests for assault with intent to kill in connection with the night’s incident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gallipolis
George More
Near Radcliffe
Bart Cottrill
Harold Partee
Vinton County
Mores
Cottrill
Clovis Cottrill
More
Holzer Hospital
Earl Cottrill
Radcliff
Springfield
Ardis
Vale
Vinton Township
Road Program Solution Seen
J D Garrett head of the local Works Division plans a conference with Athens County surveyor J W Wilson after Wilson urged halting winter county road work and FERA projects. Garrett notes some road work must continue if weather allows and aims to cooperate with Wilson using available staff and equipment. Wilson argues FERA requires county funding for materials skilled labor foremen and transport.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
FERA
J. D. Garrett
J. W. Wilson
Athens County
Wilson
Garrett
H. M. Spang
CWA
Freighter Sisto Adrift in Mid-Atlantic After Storm
A Norwegian freighter Sisto lost bridge rudder and lifeboats in a hurricane and rolled helplessly in heavy mid Atlantic seas. The British tanker Mobiloil stood by unable to assist as rescue efforts waited on a wireless report from the liner President Harding. The Sisto had been pumping water all night to steady itself but by morning was short of fuel and supplies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Sisto
mid-Atlantic
Mobiloil
Harding
Radio Marine Corporation
Seek Another Public Enemy in Chicago Tuesday
Investigators pressed a new public enemy drive after finding fresh underworld secrets. They name Terrible Tommy Touhy as the top hunted man, suspect in the $427,000 Brooklyn armored car raid and leader of remaining Dillinger Touhy gang factions. They also tie Touhy to the Michigan City prison break that released Dillinger mobsters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph Burns
Dillinger
U.S. Department of Justice
Brooklyn
Tommy” Touhy
Secret Service
Chicago
Underworld
America
John Dillinger
Touhy
Michigan City
Ind
Middle
Weer
Convict Columbus Man In Counterfeiting Ring
Columbus police report the conviction of Ford G. Wolf of Columbus on a counterfeiting charge. The case linked a ring formed at Chillicothe Reformatory to payments with $5 silver certificates. Co defendant Thomas T. Stauch pled guilty and faces sentencing with Wolf on December 28 unless Wolf appeals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Ford G. Wolf
United States Reformatory
Chillicothe
Lee Baker
Indianapolis
Wolf
Thomas T. Stauch
Nature Stopping Yawns Where Science Failed
Sterling Wisconsin December 18. Mrs Harold McKee’s marathon yawning affliction has mysteriously abated after about 200 hours. Nature appears to have slowed the yawns though medical science failed to help and sleep is now possible without sedatives. Appetite has returned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sterling. WI
Harold McKe
Nature
Police Watch Mass Meeting in Cincinnati
Police watched a downtown hotel as Michael Gold editor of the New Masses spoke at a meeting organized by the Pen & Hammer Club in Cincinnati on December 18. The New Masses editor traveled from New York to address the gathering.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cincinnati
Michael Gold
New York
New Masses
Pen & Hammer Club
NRA not dead Bulkley tells Ashtabula Democrats at victory dinner
United States Senator Robert J. Bulkley told Ashtabula County Democrats at a Victory Dinner that the NRA is not dead and that some of its features remain active.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jefferson
NRA
United States
Robert J. Bulkley
Ashtabula County
Permanent liaison plan eyed by business groups in capital
About 90 executives from major firms met at White Sulphur Springs to back a permanent liaison in Washington aimed at voicing business views to the administration and Congress. They want a continuing committee to represent commerce and avoid lobbying except to push for a unified business stance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joint Business Conference For
Congress
C. B. Ames
Texas Company
Judges picked to judge Christmas Home Lighting Contest
Three out of town judges will assess entries in the K. T. Crossen Post American Legion event in Athens. William J. Berry John Taylor and William Mills will travel from Columbus Parkersburg and Nelsonville to evaluate homes. Entry coupons are in The Messenger and prizes include decorative heat lamps.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Athens
K. T. Crossen
American Legion
William J. Berry
Columbus
General Electric Co
Ohio
John Taylor
Parkersburg
Monongahela West
Nelsonville
Legion
Messenger
Keach Fanny
Tvudard
Teds
fLacion Copemilbees
Look Before You Light Your Cigaret
ETOWAH Tenn December 18 Fire crackers and cigarets feel similar in darkness but Charles Dunn 28 suffered a badly lacerated lip two missing front teeth and singed eyebrows after grabbing a match while aiming for a cigaret in his pocket one item was a Christmas fire cracker he did not see.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Etowah
Tenn
Charles Dunn
Dunn
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Huey
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T. N. Beckman
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U.S.S.R
Soviet
Russia
Radcliff Man
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Gallia Countion
Bulkley
Capitol
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Moregenthau
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Deny Lobby Plans
Detroit
Department of Labor
Leon Henderson
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