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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1931
Page
1
A tremendous project will funnel two billion dollars in federal funds from farms to banks. The program aims to boost agricultural productivity and support rural financial institutions through targeted investment and credit facilities.
Congress negotiators reach agreement on a reconstruction finance measure to deploy 2 billion dollars in loans and bonds. Dawes heads the program with a 10 000 dollar directorate pay. Regional loan data and state by state breakdowns will accompany loan disclosures. The plan aims to underwrite exports, aid banks, and free frozen assets to revive business across Plains drought areas to Wall Street.
Mt Vernon dispatch says Hall, 50, unemployed, shot his wife Grace 48 at their South Vernon home and tried to drink chloroform. A six year old witnessed the climax of a quarrel. The wife is in serious condition, hall is unconscious in hospital after swallowing poison. He also wounded a neighbor's daughter by wresting a pistol. Hall's first wife was killed in an automobile crash. he has six children.
A fragmented report references Europe rehearsing a crying act to secure debt cancellation. It mentions Corsica, Napoleon, and warnings about sending delegates with hardened hearts as nations seek relief from debt. The piece also notes Gen Jacob Coxey planning a Republican presidential run in 1932.
E. E. LaBaw, 29, composing room worker for The Athens Messenger, fell headlong from a third-story window in the newspaper building at 10:30 am. He died at Sheltering Arms Hospital at 12:30 pm from base skull fractures. LaBaw had been ill and nervous. his vacation was arranged by employers. He lived at 107 West State Street with wife Mary White and two sons, originally from Danville Illinois.
Mr. Knickerbocker, traveling in Germany for Cyrus H. K. Curtis, says the chemical formula to make gasoline from coal is so valuable it could repay all German debts. He notes it would be good news for France and some bankers.
A simple steam formula enabled Britain to ease debt after Waterloo, keeping the country at the lead of global industry and commerce for a century. One idea can do more than all of high finance.
Ohio Senate welfare committee suspends active pen inquiry and plans a future program. Next hearings shift to the Soldiers and Sailors home at Sandusky, with former guard Martin Geaghan testifying about favors to trustees, liquor presence, and a prisoner found with a still in a cell after a fire.
The article discusses ideas that the United States might cover Germany's reparations if Germany cannot pay. It explores potential plans and political implications while noting ongoing debates and future continuation on another page.
Columbus January 21 State Prohibition Commissioner Edmund G Mathews after a conference with Governor White said there would be no increase in Prohibition Department personnel in 1932 due to funding limits. No successor will be appointed for C C Barton the Sidney prohibition inspector who died by his own hand after being removed on charges of drinking and inviting others to drink. All state budgets have been cut by order of Governor White.
Ohio citizens received winter aid through the highway department and Governor White's relief committee. The winter bridge building relief program aims to employ 7,500 men for two months, benefiting about 30,000 dependents. Routine maintenance workers are drawn from county relief lists and rotated weekly to maximize assistance.
In Conneaut on January 21 496 residents failed to oust Mayor L R Naylor after petitions claimed he violated his duties by cutting police and fire personnel to two men each. Common Pleas Judge C R Sargent ruled Naylor not guilty and called the move an abuse of discretion citing the January 1 reduction.
The board of governors of the Ohio Council of Republican Women met in Columbus to choose committee chairwomen and consider proposals for the forthcoming political campaign.
Columbus January 21 Plans to pay off a deficit of more than forty thousand dollars from the last campaign and arrangements for the 1932 state convention were to be considered today by the Republican state central committee.
Piqua report says 74 year old housekeeper Lydia Swailes killed Richard Shephard 65 in a midnight shooting after a death pact. Swailes then remained with Shephard’s body for a day before attempting suicide with a chloroform rag. Shephard, known for harness horses and Ohio pool rooms, had loaned money for projects.
State Examiner J. E. Patterson uncovered irregularities in Salem Pey Washington County accounts during a special examination. Complaints cited graveling of driveways and cemetery parking spaces near Lower Salem with public funds claimed for private benefit, but trustees argued improvements served general township needs.
Five county officers hunt two men tied to an Amesville bank robbery attempt. Cashier Frank L. Thomas and Miss Jessie Owen Thomas fought off the robbers as a gun misfired. The pair fled in a blue sedan with a yellow license plate toward Marietta. Authorities from Zanesville to Logan were alerted and patrolled roads as investigators pursue clues.
In Columbus a joint meeting of the League of Ohio Sportsmen and the Izaak Walton League erupted as critics attacked the state stream closing ruling. Proponents urged backing the plan to close one third of streams by 1982, while officials defended the program and called for anglers licenses.
Miss Annajane Hoyer of Lakewood captured first prize in the Prince of Peace Declamation Contest before 1,000 ministers at the Ohio Pastors Association. She also won a double for Jean Harlow in a Public Hall contest, earning 500 and a four year college scholarship. Her speech was Why I Hate War. Miss Harlow will meet her Cleveland double when she visits February 12.
An agreement between the Athens County Commissioners and Kimberly Coal Company outlines a ten foot overhead concrete bridge on the Kimberly Carbondale road to replace a mine crossing. The county will fund construction while the coal company covers excavation and right-of-way costs, with work planned for the summer.
Ensign Malcolm Dulaney, 25, of Cincinnati was killed when his aircraft struck the foremast of the destroyer Alden while the ship rested in San Diego Bay. The collision occurred last night during routine operations.
Three bandits forced entry into Marry Glemby’s Fifth Avenue apartment in New York today. They trapped the couple and maid, opened a wall safe, and escaped with jewelry valued at over 300000 dollars.
H B Byerly of Athens a dry cleaning proprietor was arraigned before Magistrate C H Porter on an affidavit by Mina Hutchison alleging tapping gas and electric lines from her meters. He pled not guilty and was bound over to Common Pleas Court under $200 bond. Claude Gill and Garnet Lyona of Chauncey pled not guilty to stealing chickens from James Sowards of Chauncey and were bound over to Common Pleas Court under $200 bond each.
Daniel Willard, chairman of the railway presidents committee, reads a 1,200 word reply to labor demands at the wage conference. He cites two year reductions of 58 percent in net income 60 percent in rolling stock purchases 33 percent in total earnings 48 percent in operating expenses and 27 percent in payrolls.
Ohio heiress Ann Sharer, 19, long sought after disappearing during a European trip, was located in London and is now en route home aboard an unnamed vessel. Her cousin William H. Morgan Jr. announced she was safe and returning to Ohio.
Emergency appropriation of 10000 for county road work approved to address severe January weather. About 36 to 40 workers employed daily resurfacing main routes including Sand Rock Road, New Marshfield Road, and Frost Road while bridge repairs on the Hocking River continue with creosote floors planned at Cannesville and Stewart bridges.
The Senate Finance Committee approved a bill directing 1.0 million dollars in federal funds to help the jobless, with 1.0 million to be available by July 1 and the rest in the next fiscal year. The plan, sponsored by Senators La Follette and Cole, would distribute the money to states for unemployment relief. The committee vote was 6 to 2, with Senators Mag Navy and Goldsborough voting no.
Fragmentary report notes wartime trade concerns and secrecy claims. The piece mentions blame directed at Prohibition and a Washington figure, with reference to ships, flags, and lines of operation, suggesting political tension around maritime policy.
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