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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 11, 1929
Page
1
Congress turns to odds and ends on the calendar before Hoover's inauguration. La Follette and Heflin resolutions on a market slump will be considered today as the railroad consolidation bill lingers in the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee, reducing chances for major action.
Senate debates a grain bill and considers La Follette and Heflin stock market resolutions. A committee plans a final report on the Vare seating case. House moves through minor measures on the unanimous consent calendar.
Chairman Watson leads committee in a plan to rework the Fess Bill to repeal the consolidation law. Kentucky Senator Sackett favors a national plan with a commission, while Wheeler’s Montana group opposes both. The Caraway Bill on futures trading sits unfinished as House pins hopes on consent bills.
A conference of State Highway Department officials, county commissioners, and rail representatives will be called by Robert N aid, state highway director, to discuss elimination of the Bellevue grade crossing where 19 persons were killed in a bus crash last month.
In Columbus on February 11 the Eighty-Eighth General Assembly awaited a busy week. Senate Public Utilities and Governor Cooper debated the Carpenter Bill to repeal the Peace Utilities Rate Law while House debates centered on the Morgan State Office Building Bill. Committee hearings covered the Teachers’ Tenure Bill the Yellow Dog law the Mardis freight-rate bill and the Laybourne chattel loan interest measure. Public hearings were set for the Emmons conservation department bill and the Bender automobile tax bill with bids for Christian Science practitioner fees and the election code modification pending in the Senate.
Lindbergh sets a flying example and others follow as executives use personal airplanes for business. M C Meigs, Stewart of Standard Oil, and Colonel Deeds maintain metal three engine aircraft for travel. Deeds recently flew 835 miles to Havana in two hours with a party. Get your airplane.
The 69 year old Rev James M Work Presbyterian minister of Oxford died when a Hamilton and Oxford bus crashed near a culvert guard rail. Ten others were injured including Ruth Peet a Miami University student with a fractured skull. The bus carried about thirty passengers many Miami students. Also Hoover visited Edison home in Fort Myers for Edison’s 82nd birthday as Ford Firestone officials welcomed them.
Mansfield Feb 11 An investigation was opened into the Madison Theater fire that destroyed the remodeled show house in the business district. Two steel workers Charles Reiser and Sid Henderline 30 were killed after walls collapsed as firemen battled the blaze in bitterly cold conditions.
Continental February 11 fire destroyed the $200,000 High School building in a blaze that struck early Sunday. The incident devastates the town’s educational facilities and forces plans for urgent reconstruction.
The cold wave gripping Ohio Kentucky and West Virginia continued with no relief. Temperatures ranged zero to five above with colder in Northwestern Ohio and snow flurries elsewhere. Fifteen deaths linked to the cold, fires, crashes and carbon monoxide were reported as the frigid spell persisted.
Residents recall a severe cold snap when temperatures nearly reached 30 degrees below zero in parts of the state. Ohio areas reported harsher readings with heavy snow lingering for several days, according to historical records.
In Orrville, a wilting Christmas tree stays lit and draped with silver and lights in Mrs. Raymond Horst’s living room for four-year-old Melvin Horst missing since after Christmas. Police and volunteers have searched without success. Mrs. Horst vows to keep the tree until his return.
Former Ohio State Treasurer Bert Buckley had his bid for a new trial denied by Federal Judge Benson W. Hough in Columbus. Buckley faces sentencing March 11 for conspiracy tied to alleged bribes to tip off raids on Cincinnati breweries. He could receive up to 28 years in prison and a 27200 dollar fine. The case involved attorney defendants John L. Schrimper Adolph Gruber and lawyer Joseph Sperber and prohibited official Eckhart as key witness.
Steubenville reports Charles Loy, 40, arrested for violating dry laws was released by Common Pleas Judge J B Paisley to allow dry squads to pursue major bootleggers. Loy, a father of nine, claimed it was his first offense and the judge urged a renewed chance.
At St John Lateran Palace plenipotentiaries for Vatican and Italy signed a two part accord ending a dispute since 1870. Mussolini and Cardinal Gasparri led the ceremony recognizing papal sovereignty and paying about 82.6 million dollars indemnity. The Vatican gains a tiny sovereign state while a concordat outlines future relations. The event drew Catholic observers worldwide.
Prohibition officers Harve Lines and J C Yates found a 100 gallon moonshine still six barrels of mash and about 34 gallons of whisky in a Deanville mine while it operated The same pair also located a complete unused still above Deanville last Tuesday In West Washington Street the police and officers found about one quarter pint of whisky behind a bread box at the Roegge residence Roegge pleaded guilty to possession and was fined 100 plus costs A tip led to a liquor haul near Mine No 256 at Modoc where driver Roe Watkins was stopped and one pint of liquor found but broken before it could be seized Watkins was jailed after arraignment and faced bond 2000 for third offense He was committed to the county jail
Athens County commissioners discussed road mileage and prepared plans for the coming year. Five car loads of limestone are needed to finish resurfacing New Marshfield Mineral Road and will be obtained this week. After that, resurfacing will move to The Plains Road from Athens to Beaumont. County trucks are now resurfacing Stewart Coolville Road with gravel.
Otto Kourim and Helen faced divorce when Judge Harrison W. Ewing ordered a three year birth control period. Reconciliation followed but the wife later disappeared with the household funds, leaving three children with Kourim as police investigate.
One traffic victim reported in Youngstown on February 11 as end of week accidents claimed a life.
Arlington officials order removal of posters depicting flapper and Adonis imagery advertising tobacco. Council condemns billboard propaganda aimed at youth and tobacco interests, calling for all such ads to be taken down.
The defense argues George Ludden acted as any man would when Lent was shot and asserts the killing was accidental. Prosecutor R D Williams prepared to present argument after lunch as the case nears jurors.
In Batavia on February 11 a defective heater is blamed for the carbon monoxide deaths of Delmar Richards 21 Mildred Storer 17 and her eight months old Frances Jeane in a Williamsburg area car. Richards found the bodies after his son left and the car engine was still running.
Lancaster February 11 Miss Ethel Francis a 17 year old high school student has been unconscious since last Wednesday night when she collapsed before the church altar during a revival service Doctors H M Kelley and two others report she is suffering from hysteria and have not been able to rouse her.
Intense cold shatters records across Europe with 36 influenza deaths in England and 22 starving wolves reported in Corytza. Baltic Sea ice traps 140 ships and 25 vessels in the sound near Ruegen. freighters freed by the Schleswig. Berlin reports Belgian and Polish weather extremes. trains halted and Thrace railways snowbound as workers clear routes.
In the Southwest temperatures linger near zero as seven deaths linked to the cold are reported over the weekend. Texas records four fatalities while parts of the region see sunnier skies but persistently frigid air.
Athens fire marshal J. Ailstock urges callers to admit mistakes when dialing the fire department by accident. He notes many hang up after misdial causing delays, cites a Berry Hotel incident where wires burned before a message could be given, and warns that no answer leaves firefighters uncertain how to act.
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