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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 13, 1929
Page
1
President Coolidge signed the cruiser bill authorizing construction of 15 cruisers and a modern aircraft carrier for the Navy. The decision ends a prolonged debate over the need for more fighting ships for national defense.
Senate moves on Caraway grain futures bill and Jones resolution to amend secrecy rules. Immigration committee widens hearing on national origins provision. Commerce probes proposed sale of government ships. Public lands and foreign relations handle routine business. House and Senate hold joint session to count presidential electoral votes.
The funds for six ships including two cruisers and an air raft carrier will be appropriated before Congress adjourns on March 4. The President signed the bill alone in his office with no ceremony or official comment, after a White House conference that cleared the final hurdle with Curtis Hale Robinson Longworth Tilson Garrett.
The author places Lincoln and Washington above all others, claiming no nation could match them in a millennium of history. Edison is noted for a future rubber tree venture as the nation seeks new practical giants.
In Columbus on February 13 a split legislature moved toward a new state office building. The House passed Ted Morgan Bill 74 to 9 despite executive opposition and Hamilton County pressure, while the Senate was to consider the Roche bill favored by Governor Cooper.
The 1928 duplicate shows Athens County total taxes of 1 482 946 26 with 165 120 04 delinquent and 116 889 90 in special assessments. Property values outside and inside municipalities are given, along with tax allocations to state county township schools and municipalities. The text also covers Morgan Bill office-building funding proposals and site selection debates, including votes 73 to 45 against a State House grounds site amendment and committee referral moves.
C H Merrill 42 of Hamden died after several weeks illness at his home near Hamden McArthur Pike. A railroad telegraph operator since 1904 he served for Baltimore & Ohio and held leadership roles in education and fraternal orders. Funeral will be held after school let out Thursday.
The Rohe State Office Building bill moves in the Senate while the Weir bill to add a common pleas judge for Trumbull County heads to passage on the House calendar. The Dinsmore bill to exempt trolley lines from excise tax is up in the House. A public hearing on an initiated bill to create a separate chiropractic board is set before the House Health Committee. The Yellow Dog bill attacking open shop contracts faces a House Labor Committee hearing in the evening.
Caldwell jury awards Donald Moore 12 of Ava ten thousand dollars against E. J. Bean and Eleanor Bean of Cleveland for injuries from an automobile crash. The verdict stands as one of Noble county's largest judgments.
Lieut Harry Johnson and Capt A W Stevens described their 39 000 foot flight into a cloud of ice crystals. They landed at Norton Field Columbus due to fuel limits and plan another attempt. They spoke of sun dog effects and ice needle like particles piercing skin and noted extreme cold of 76 degrees below zero with heated gear.
Miss Anne Spencer Morrow and Col Charles A Lindbergh have announced an engagement. In Mexico City, public curiosity runs high about a possible spring wedding though no plans are disclosed. Morrow, 22, is reserved and studious, sharing Lindbergh’s dislike of ostentation.
The Green and White will not appear this week until Friday due to mechanical problems at Lawhead Printer. Editor Robert Marriott announced a special six page edition for that day after the Tuesday issue blew up the press form and ruined the print.
The record cold wave in Europe drives 87 reported deaths since Saturday amid rumors in Romania Switzerland and Belgium. German battleships respond to ice trapped steamers in the Baltic as a Gypsy group perishes near Lublin. Wolves advance in Hungary as snow blocks trains and London endures its coldest spell since 1871.
In Colima city, Colima state, federal troops clashed with entering rebels for about thirty minutes. Several rebels and a woman streetcar passenger died as the attackers fled shouting Viva Cristo Rey. The city populace aided federal forces and electric service was cut for half an hour.
Glenn Cline saved a rail wreck at Dyesville, and his mother Mrs. John Cline once waved trains to safety. His sisters Fiora and Leona flagged a burning bridge to stop a passenger, earning official passes to Columbus. John Cline, 76, embodies quiet heroism and farm restoration work alongside his family’s memory.
Ohio lawmakers push harsher penalties for supplying liquor to minors after Akron reports of bootlegging to students. The bill would raise fines to 1000 to 5000 dollars and 1 to 5 years imprisonment, with committee support.
Columbus February 13. Representative Dallas Sullivan of Union County will introduce a bill to split two cents of the gas tax among state and local units. The plan allocates 45 percent to the state highway department, 20 percent to municipalities by motor registrations, 20 percent equally to 88 counties, and 15 percent to counties then shared with townships for road repair.
Eighteen year old Frederick Ridell Jr hopes to become the youngest airman to complete an east to west transcontinental flight. He is conditioning his plane at Pine Valley New Jersey and intends to take off for Oakland California on April 1 flying only by day and aiming to complete the trip within a week.
President elect Hoover plans a Lake Ok flood district survey this Friday and Saturday. He will meet with committee members today to discuss economic trends in the United States before returning to Washington for conferences.
William H. Scibley, president of the closed Amherst Savings and Company, pleaded guilty in common pleas court to misapplication. Sentence was deferred.
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