12 Feb 1934
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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1934
Page
1
Rumors say Don C. Peden of Ohio University is the favored candidate for Indiana Universitys coaching job with a three year contract hinted. Dutch Trautwein, Indiana line coach since 1928, may follow Peden but likely prefers the Ohio head coach post.
Officials reported ample liquor in stock at stores despite Hughes inability to secure imports. Hinkle indicated department efforts to expedite imported liquors and maintain sufficient supply for the public.
A fragment reports a farm scene where a mattress is found near a barn and a man named Oscar is mentioned in connection with the item. The text is garbled but suggests a local curiosity or mystery centered on the old mattress at the farm.
Fragmentary OCR item describes a pursuit after a burglary with a patrol involvement and a fleeing subject. Names, dates, and places are unclear in the readable text. The piece hints at a police response and a suspect on the run.
Eva Trimmer of Ferndale Michigan found guilty of manslaughter in the death of Robert Brown, operator of a Wyandot County medicine show. The case centered on disputes over property including the medicine wagon and about four thousand dollars in curios. The verdict followed a late night trial with emotional reactions in court.
Columbus city detective Dan McAllister was to explain today why he shot and killed 22 year old Harry Adams in a Sunday morning quarrel. McAllister claimed he was attacked and showed a chin wound, but associates said McAllister had no wound when Adams was taken to a hospital.
Hollywood gossip reports the secret marriage of Zasu Pitts the screen comedienne to Edward Woodall a tennis instructor. The couple allegedly left by train for New York and were said to have wed last October at Minden Nevada by a justice of the peace while Pitts was on location for a film.
Nine year old Veronica Drabik in Cleveland suffers the loss of sight in her left eye after a 13-year-old boy shoots an air rifle at her as he mimics the William Tell legend. The shot strikes the pupil, leaving Veronica blinded on one eye.
Will Rogers questions the fate of pilots and aviation workers as pilots depart or change roles. He compares aviation to railroading and urges targeting corrupt leaders rather than harming the broad industry. The piece defends honest aviators while urging prudent action.
Governor White will push a bill to allow an extra levy up to 2 mills for operating expenses of political subdivisions. He backs the full emergency taxation program and uses a highway assessment refund measure as leverage. The assembly will reconvene to complete consideration of the 1934 emergency program and discuss new revenues for 1935 needs.
Col Charlies A. Lindbergh sent a telegram to President Roosevelt protesting the cancellation of airmail contracts. White House officials said the action could be for publicity. The army air service planned to take over all domestic mail routes February 19.
Donald Meiser, 19, drowned when two skaters broke through the Muskingum River near Marietta. John Swan, 22, was rescued after bystanders tore down fences and used a wire rope to reach him. Meiser's body was recovered with grappling hooks. Meiser worked for the Marietta Times Publishing Co.
The Allen County Jail at Lima is described as impregnable by guards and machine guns as civil guards, national guardsmen, and regionnaires patrol the facility. Three Dillinger gang members, awaiting trial for Sheriff Jess Sarber murder, were expected to arrive.
The Agricultural Adjustment Administration announces that over 23,000 Ohio farmers signed corn hog reduction agreements in 15 counties. The campaign will broaden to 44 counties this week, with more than 58,000 farmers attending 400 meetings to explain the program.
Persistent reports say Joe T. Robinson of Arkansas, Senate Democratic leader, will be named to the next vacancy on the United States Supreme Court. Retirement of Justice Vandevanter or Justice Sutherland is likely this year. Vandevanter is 75 and Sutherland 72, each could retire on full pay.
Hilbert Low ery aged 61 a Civil Works Administration worker was burned to death today in his bed at Greenwills Norwalk authorities reported the death occurred in the elderly man s dwelling and local investigators began a routine inquiry into the cause of the fire.
A Rockefeller Foundation sponsored survey analyzes 27 states and declares the sales tax an unnecessary and backward step in taxation. Economists Robert Murray Haig and Carl Shoup of Columbia led the study, noting the tax yields quick revenue as an emergency measure but offers little support for permanent adoption.
A State Department conference with representatives from State Treasury Commerce and the Reconstruction Finance Corporation fore shadows an export bank to foster U S Soviet trade. The proposal aims to establish a formal vehicle to finance and promote exports to the Soviet Union.
A socialist general strike in Austria sparks deadly clashes in Vienna and Linz with hospitals reporting 15 to 25 deaths. In France workers stage a 24 hour general strike as Communist rioting begins in urban districts. Police and martial law tighten across Europe amid fears of a broader anti democratic surge.
Washington plans a second $1 billion borrowing this week as part of a $10 billion program to fund the recovery drive. Revenues rise from activity and liquor taxes amid growing expenditures, with $6 billion short in the first half of the year and $14 billion in maturing securities due, forcing the latest borrowing step.
Columbus report notes a slow start for the state Workmen's Compensation Fund probe. Chairman S. P. Bush and committee member Thomas J. Donnelly will be in Washington this week, amid Cox's claim that employers pilfered a million dollars via dishonest payroll statements.
Springfield report recalls an 1810 census entry listing Abraham Lincoln as a white male under 10 among his family in Hardin County Kentucky. The piece discusses official references, Lincoln’s birth date 1809, and a family Bible note, highlighting how census data sparked retrospective birthday recognition.
Chicago clerics ask that Lutheran churches be removed from the Protestant category and listed with Catholic and Lutheran as distinct faiths. They cite a Betts survey showing Lutherans hold fewer modernist beliefs than other creeds and note differences on devil, heaven, judgment day, and evolution.
Lieut. John H. Murrell of the Ninth Infantry, a former West Point football star, goes on trial at Fort Sam Houston on a charge of assaulting a Alabama divorcee. Dozens of officers wives attend amid expectations of sensational testimony. If convicted, Murrell faces possible death sentence.
A weekend toll of ten deaths and extensive property damage followed a series of fires in Michigan. In Muskegon Mrs. Elisa Farr, 52, and her sons Richard 29 James 16 and Bert 14 perished in a house fire. William Strong 4 Betty 5 and Jack 4 months also died in another home fire.
The Supreme Court stayed the Interstate Commerce Commission order increasing Ohio intrastate coal rates, setting aside a federal district court ruling that had paused the ICC action while awaiting a Supreme Court appeal. The decision centers on Ohio rates and interstate commerce enforcement.
Rebels clash with police across Vienna and upper Austria as a general strike escalates into civil unrest. Rioters in Ling are reported killed after troops fire on socialist headquarters, while electric power drops and martial law spreads. Troops in autotruks sweep city streets amid ongoing violence and detentions.
Belford Nelson, former Athens County CWA administrator and new head of the state Department of Investigation in Columbus, departs Athens to take charge. He began with relief in May and became county relief director in September, overseeing CWA job placement of hundreds after Washington orders. Theodore H. Smith of Coshocton now heads local CWA and relief operations in Athens.
CHICAGO February 12 Melvin A Traylor president of the First National Bank fought a rare pneumonia that usually proves fatal He was critically ill but slowly rallying from the sixth relapse of a month long battle in which his life was feared several times by doctors and family
Paris riot activity erupts in the northeast as clashes escalate between Communists, Socialists, and police amid Francewide general strike. At least 21 dead and many injured. police arrested hundreds. government offices guarded by soldiers and police while workers fill the streets demanding end to disruption.
Ohio Supreme Court Judge Edward S. Mathias denounces the New Deal as bureaucratic and arbitrary in a Lincoln Day address to Republicans in six Northwestern Ohio counties. He warns against concentrated national power, recalling Jefferson and Hamilton in a critique of federal overreach.
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