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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 20, 1941
Page
1
Vague accounts say Mussolini’s imperial ambitions collapse as Ethiopians resist fiercely. Observers warn that British actions against Italians pale beside what native forces may inflict, signaling a grim turn in Africa.
The Ohio Supreme Court invalidates a barber price advertising rule as overreaching beyond public health or welfare. It also rules on coal miners unemployment benefits, reversing a strike finding and tiding $288 476 in relief as checks head to 6 675 miners after a county court injunction is lifted.
The State Welfare Department reported January 1941 relief outlay of 1 901 225 dollars, down 582 422 from January 1940. Total direct relief fell from 2 483 647 to 1 901 225, with December at 1 979 781. Ohio contributed 900 000 dollars and counties covered the rest.
Cleveland report cites the Military Training Camps Association proposing officer training for 40 000 civilian volunteers. Robert Jamison, Cleveland, says details are not yet completed and forwarded to the War Department.
American Rolling Mill Co announced plans led by President Charles R. Hook to construct a new blast furnace in Ashland Kentucky with a daily capacity of 1000 tons of pig iron. The project valued at five million dollars targets expanded steel production and job creation in the Middletown area.
R. F. Malin of Milwaukee secretary of the Great Lakes Harbor Association envisions shipyards on the Great Lakes large enough to build cruisers.
Kansas City story: Stanley L. Leonard, 21, wrote I’m not making this out in his draft questionnaire. The draft board invoked the line Come and get me and arrested him on a draft evasion charge, holding him for a federal grand jury.
New York report shows Chief Magistrate Henry H Curran questioning a young man fined for unlicensed peddling of the Declaration. The defendant says he sold none as he had just started. The judge remarks that selling the Constitution in Washington for 10 cents could educate people.
Gro ver Moorman 28 of Cincinnati was accused of shop lifting at Haskins Tanner store. He surrendered after Morris Haskins warned with a shotgun. Moorman fled with two companions, discarded sweaters, claimed a Kentucky prison, and was jailed as officers pursued two suspected accomplices who left the city.
In San Francisco Mrs. Alice Crockett now Alice Gulden sues Captain Fritz Wiedemann for $8,000 claiming he owed her for investigating his status with Adolf Hitler. She alleges Wiedemann, Hitler's former adjutant, directed her to travel to Germany to confirm if he remained a Hitler favorite.
Ohio Supreme Court rules a person’s limbs must remain inside the vehicle. In Lavina Black v. Berea the court overturned a $20,000 verdict after her arm outside a car window struck a mailbox. The ruling cites negligent mailbox placement near the roadway.
Two University of Pittsburgh scientists report vitamin-deficient animals are knocked cold by noise and suggest vitamins may provide defense against shell shock in humans.
Across the nation labor unrest spreads from the Allis-Chalmers Milwaukee plant where 6,800 workers are in a month long strike. CIO-UAW leaders withdraw from talks, warning of possible walkouts at Bethlehem Steel Lackawanna plant and Donora zinc facility. Other actions include Minneapolis-Moline, San Diego shipyard, and Nash Kelvinator in Kenosha preparing strikes and wage demands.
For the fourth straight day sub-freezing air kept central and eastern regions in cold grip though a slight moderation appeared in spots. An extensive cold air mass pushed the mercury to 24 degrees below zero in Grand Forks North Dakota last night.
Funeral services for Mrs. Elizabeth Ambrose who died last night at Mt. Carmel Hospital in Columbus will be held Saturday at 9:30 a.m. at St. John's Church in Logan. Burial follows at Oak Grove Cemetery.
Sidney J. Hillman told the House Judiciary Committee that strikes are rare in defense production and no new legislation is needed. He praised labor and management for avoiding production interruptions and urged continued use of cooperative methods at the democratic conference table. Knudsen echoed that labor disputes have not caused major delays and urged no legislative action.
Washington reports that administration leaders spurned a chance to add strict limits to the British aid bill. Proposals would bar use of US ports for belligerent repairs, curb naval transfers, forbid convoys, and oppose troop deployments. Senate debates continue with Reynolds Taft Bailey weighing intervention and war risks.
Price of wool climbs to record highs amid booming demand from defense needs. Domestic greasy wool now up 1 to 2 cents a pound, with scour price around 1.27 per pound. Army procurement for uniforms could strain supply in the next month.
Columbus report: Senate passes a two cent per pack cigarette tax extension for two years and sends to the governor for signature. The chamber also approves a tax relief for personal property owners for prior years and sends it to the House. A repeal of the central county election count law is approved, House approval awaits. The Senate also backs a $300,000 appropriation for Massillon conservancy district use.
In Columbus a state tax department accountant, Mrs. Rena L. Lockhart, 54, leapt to her death from the tenth floor of the State Office Building. Sergeant C. C. Cole of the Columbus Detective Bureau said the death was by her own action. She had been a state employee for nearly 30 years.
Ohio University gym buzzed with fans for the Athens County Tournament opening round. Shade Troy and Albany squads led the cheer sections in color coordinated outfits while mascots and visitors joined the lively sideline display.
Secretary Morgenthau announced plans to issue over 1.3 billion in taxable securities after President Roosevelt signed a debt limit increase to 65 billion dollars. He ordered baby bonds to become taxable and outlined 1.222 billion in refunding securities on a taxable basis plus weekly 100 million cash borrows on 91 day bills.
Murray D. Lincoln of Columbus Ohio urged a reversal of a selfish farm policy at a Farm Bureau conference in Des Moines He called to stop subsidizing scarcity and to shift from restricting agriculture to stimulating consumption to avoid debt unemployment and war.
Friction from a jolting truck is believed to have sparked a carton of matches in a grocery shipment at Evans Grocery Co. Rio Grande. The truck, under Randall Erwin and Peter Roush, carried goods from Gallipolis to Jackson, and flames prompted a Rio Grande fire department response.
Four hundred striking high school students capitulated to school and parental pressure after a day of clamor for a winter skating vacation. Principal to parent calls broke the strike and ringleaders returned with parental escort in family cars.
Frederick Williams, a 29 year old escapee from the London Prison Farm work gang on Sept 10 1936, has been returned from Buffalo New York. Local authorities confirmed the transfer and he faces recapture. Williams was held on initial charges related to the escape and is expected to undergo further processing at the London facility.
Reports circulating in Shanghai said Japanese troop transports move south toward Hainan or northern Indo China in response to Australian forces in Singapore and the British fortress. British South African troops seized Mega in Ethiopia with 600 prisoners as forces clash on the Somaliland front. RAF bombers hit Brest and Calais as London and other cities suffered bomb damage.
In Detroit at the Webster Eisenlohr cigar factory about 30 women collapsed and were rushed to a hospital after reportedly being overcome by gas. Physicians say several cases are serious and the incident is under investigation.
New York report says Australia’s prime minister A. W. Fadden will ask the war cabinet to consider inviting Wendell L. Willkie to visit the Commonwealth. The British Radio broadcast the statement today.
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