Business Men Plan Meeting as Miners Face Deadlock
Nelsonville set for second conference between the Business and Professional Men's League and the Scale Committee of miners amid a four week wage dispute. Reports say operators refuse to recognize the United Mine Workers while miners seek union recognition and relief commissaries are to be opened to aid families.
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Board of Directors
Business and Professional Men's League
Hocking
Sunday Creek Valleys
Crooksville
Nelsonville
Columbus
George White
Frank D. Henderson
United Mine Workers of America
United Mine Workers Organization
Lee Hall
David Watkins
District 6
Herman Theisen
Wm. B. Morris
John Currens
Arthur Levering
Karl W. Gardner
Elmer Allen
George Curdie
James B. Carsner
Charles McIntyre
Hugh Murray
Hall
Chauncey
Murray City
Glouster
Rendville
Shawnee
New Marshfield
Clarion
Pomeroy
War Miners’ Union
United Mine Workers
Ohio
Kentucky
West Virginia
State to spend 200000 on Athens County road projects
The Ohio State Highway Department plans about 200000 in Athens County road work this spring and summer. One hundred thousand funds Route 18 from Trimble to Urbancrest, and 100000 covers Route 31 from Nelsonville to the Athens Hocking line. The Glouster Kiwanis Club met to hear plans and officials noted traffic levels and upcoming project sales, including Route 41 near Nelsonville and Route 13 through Trimble to Glouster.
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Glouster
State Highway Department
Athens County
Glouster Kiwanis Club
M. B. Church
Trimble
Urbancrest
Nelsonville
Athena- Hocking County
Athens
Chauncey
Murray City
Corning
Jacksonville
Crookaville
Moxahila
Marietta
Zaneaville
Hollister
New Straitsville
Buchtel
Millfield
New Lexington
M. KE. Church, Co
F. Wallace
Kiwanis Club
L. EB. Richardson
M. M. Bryson
A. W. Sherwood
Richardson
Athena County
Sherwood
Athens-Hocking County
L. J. Eberle
Southern Leaders Block Wet-Dry Vote in House
Washington Feb 24 Southern Democratic dry leaders outmaneuvered anti prohibitionists to avert the first record vote on a prohibition issue in three years. A 132 to 103 tally defeated Rep Schafer Wisconsin’s amendment to bar wire tapping funds. Garner recognized Cannon, a committee member, delaying Schafer’s bid to recommit the bill and trigger a roll call.
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Congress
Washington
U.R
Drys
Justice Department Ap
Wisconsin
Garner
Carmon
Missouri
Springfield
Cannon
Schafer
Chicago Tulips Bloom as City Boasts Unusual Climate
In Chicago the weather has stayed above freezing for twenty four months with no zero days. Tulips are starting in some gardens as residents note the city’s remarkable climate. Arthur Brisbane reflects on Spring Flowers and a blind man and wonders about Oxford and Pershing in a syndicated piece.
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Chicago
Washington
Oxford
General Pershing
Ill
California
Strange winter features in local scenes and gardens
The piece notes a young railroad man hoping for a good trip east and mentions crocuses and open windows with fans in an office. It reports pansies blooming in J. M. Patterson’s North Side garden and Mr. Drake cutting nine inches of ice at his Lake Geneva hotel, signaling an unusual winter.
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J. M. Patterson
Mr. Drake
Lake Geneva
Chicago Tells Tax Payers to Support City Stores
Chicago officials urge residents to buy goods only at merchants who pay real estate taxes to aid the city as tax collection remains difficult. The upcoming Chicago Exposition nears opening and is promoted as a worthy event for families to attend.
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Chicago
Cermak
Chicago blind musician Sabin hides Beczar from gangsters
The article recounts Clinton Nabin a Chicago street accordionist guided by his wife Eva as gangsters pursued Albert Beczar. Beczar sought shelter with Sabin who offered protection, illustrating a civic duty to aid others. Continued on Page 4.
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America
Chicago
Clinton Nabin
Eva
Albert Beczar
Beczar
Sabin
Burglars Loot Racine Post Office Parcel Room
Post Office at Racine was entered by unlocking the front door. The office was ransacked and parcel post packages opened. Letters were taken from boxes and torn. Stamps and small change appear missing. Authorities and postal officials investigate.
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Pomeroy
Racine
Ed Simpson
Tracy
Young
Two in Court Here in Athens Area
Ray Allen of Nelsonville was fined $10 and costs after pleading guilty to intoxication before Magistrate C. H. Porter. Allen was arrested by Constable Frank White in Athens on Tuesday. Joe Cunningham, a Black man living between Stewart and Broadwell, was arraigned on a charge of stealing a battery from Herron Brothers Gauge and pleaded not guilty. case continued to March 5.
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Ray Allen
Nelsonville
Allen
Frank White
Athens
Joe Cunningham
Stewart
Broadwell
Porter
Herron Brothers
Thompson elected president of Ohio Anti-Saloon League
In Columbus on February 24 Dr. W. O. Thompson president emeritus of State University was chosen as president of the Anti Saloon League of Ohio. He succeeds the late Dr. J Knox Montgomery president of Muskingum College.
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Columbus, CO
W. O. Thompson
Cl State University
Anti- Saloon League of Ohio
J. Knox Montgomery
Muskingum College
Athenicas in Trenches 14 Years Ago Athenicas in Trenches
On February 22, 1918, Company Lb 166th Infantry from Athens entered front line trenches near Baccaret France. The NCO meeting at the Athens Armory reviewed history and planned for federal inspection on March 8 led by Captain J H Wampler. Recruits William Walker and Guy Dailey join the ranks as the unit trains to reach full quota with new clothing and gear issued.
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166Th Infantry
Athens
Baccaret
France
Thearle W. Schaffer
J. H. Wampler
Indiana
Captain Schaffer
William Walker
Guy Dailey
Dailey
18Th Tank Corps
May Organize Against Gasoline Bootleggers
In Columbus Ohio the Ohio Petroleum Marketers Association opened to discuss action against gasoline bootleggers evading the gasoline tax. F V Martinek of Standard Oil testified on tax evasion, noting Illinois recovered 741000 in under a year and Kansas lost 813000 in 1931 through similar evasion.
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Columbus
U.P
Ohio
Ohio Petroleum Marketers Association
F. V. Martinek
Stanard Oil Company
Indiana
Illinois
Martinek
Kansas
Manchurian State Name Declared Daido Meaning Great Union
The Manchurian Independence Committee announces the new Manchu State to be called Daido, a constitutional democracy with an annual popular assembly. Changchun will be the capital, and Henry Pu Yi the lifelong Chief of State after his deposition as emperor.
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Mukden
Manchuria
U.P
Manchurian Independence Committee
Daido
Great Union
Changchun
Henry Pu- Yi
China War Coverage Critics Warn of Censorship
Beverly Hills letter argues reporters in Manchuria exaggerate China warfare and notes Shanghai and Tokyo datelines reveal bias. The writer says both governments color dispatches, urging readers to discount each side’s line by at least 50 percent.
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Beverly Hills
Calif
China
Manchuria
Shanghai
Tokyo
Drinking Was Less in 1931 Official Says
Drastic mood in business and stronger federal enforcement reduced liquor consumption in 1931, Col. Amos W. Woodcock told Ohio Wesleyan University. He cited per capita liquor use in 1980 down 35 percent from 1914 and urged strengthening public education and broad government cooperation to sustain prohibition.
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D Ware
U.R
Federal Prohibition Bureau
Amos W. Woodcock
Federal Prohibition
Political Science Department
Ohio Wesleyan University
Woodcock
Temperance
England Sets Wheat Prices
London reports the Government Wheat Bill sets a guaranteed price for home grown wheat at 10 shillings per hundredweight. The payment limit is 27,000,000 hundredweight per cereal year starting 1933. Neville Chamberlain announced tariff-free lists for coal coke and various raw materials in the same session.
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London
U.P
United States
Neville Chamberlain
House of Commons
Chamberlain
Favors Short Selling
Richard Whitney president of the New York Stock Exchange told the House Judiciary Committee the exchange would have closed a month ago without short selling. He defended the practice as stabilizing and essential to maintain the market after the collapse.
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Washington
Richard Whitney
New York Stock Exchange
House Judiciary Committee
Whitney
Sheriff files riot charges against 35 at Walford Coal Mine
New Philadelphia Ohio sheriff Harry C. Smith filed inciting riot charges against 35 union sympathizers over disorders at the Walford Coal Company mine near Newport last Wednesday. The action follows clashes and investigations by authorities.
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New
Philadelphia
Harry C. Smith
Walford Coal Company
Newport
Athens Couple Buy Large Farm in Carthage Township
Mr and Mrs Edgar McLead of 50 Woodard Ave Athens have purchased a large farm in Carthage Township and plan to move there in the near future.
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Edgar McLead
Woodard Ave
Athens
Carthage Township
James Ginnan Civic Leader Dies at 60
James Ginnan of Columbus former Athena resident and civic figure dies of cerebral hemorrhage at his brother in law Maurice J. Gross home Athens Tuesday night at 8:30. Funeral services set for Friday 10 am at St Pauls Athena with Nephew Rev Walher James Kernan officiating. Ginnan active in Red Cross World War I and led Athena Chamber of Commerce and State Botters Association. He leaves two daughters and three grandchildren. interment Holy Calvary Cemetery Lancaster Street.
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James Ginnan
Columbus
Athena
Maurice J. Gross
East State Street
Athens
Ginnan
Red Cross
Athena Chamber of Commerce
Gore
Hocking County
Buchtel
Star Bottling Works
State Bottiers Association
Majestic Theater Company
Athens County
St. Paul's Catholic Church of
Walher James T. Kernan
St. Rosalia's Church
Pittsburgh
St. Paul's Church
John W. Byrne
Blessed Sacrament Church
Newark
James T. Banahan
Sts. Peter's and Paul's Church
Wellston
William T. Connolly
Holy Redeemer Church
Portsmouth
Holy Calvary Cemetery
Lancaster Street
L. O. Gutman
J. F. Spaulding
Buffalo
N. Y
Julia Ann
James
Carl Gutman
Andrew
Jacksonville
Michael
Martin
Youngstown
Julia Ann Gross
Nelsonville Elks
Athens Elks
Knight of Columbus
Catholic Forresters
United Commercial Travelers
Friends
Wife of C. W. Sams Dies Tuesday
Pheebe Fay Sams aged 33 died at 6 PM Tuesday at 377 West State Street from pneumonia. Born May 10, 1898 in Guysville she leaves husband C Sams two sons Paul and Walter parents Mr and Mrs A T Bretz four brothers D C and Ralph Bretz Athens Carl Bretz Guysville F W Bretz Corndale three sisters Mrs A R Deeter twin sister Mineral Mrs C E Parsons Amenville and Mrs Clyde Deeter Athens Funeral will be at 10 AM Saturday at Central Avenue M E Church. Rev Radford officiating burial at Clarks Chapel.
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Pheebe Fay Sams
C . Sams
West State Street
Guysville
Sams
Paul
Walter
A. T. Bretz
D. C
A. R. Deeter
Mineral
C. E. Parsons
Amenville
Clyde Deeter
Athens
Central Avenue M. E
Radford
Clarks Chapel
Cashier Arrested in Bank Embezzlement Case in West Virginia
J Wilber Johnson a 35 year old cashier at Union Bank of Benwood was arrested on embezzlement charges after the bank failed again. Prosecutor J Loyd Arnold says about 114000 may have been taken. Former cashier William Leach and assistant Je Ward were jailed seven years for a $750000 embezzlement in 1925.
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Moundsville
W. Va
U.P
J. Wilber Johnson
Union Bank of Benwood
Waa
J. Loyd Arnold
Marshall County
William Leach
oJe Ward
Ohio to Place 1900 Miles of Route Markers
The State Highway Department plans to install about 1900 miles of new route markers on improved roads in Ohio during the first week of March.
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Columbus
State Highway Department
Ohio
Al Smith Plans Chicago Fight for 1932 Nomination
Former Governor Alfred E. Smith told United Press he will attend the Democratic National Convention in Chicago in June to lead opposition to Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt. The prospective clash marks a historic New York duel as Smith signals a strong stance on Prohibition and liquor control state powers.
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New York
L.a
Alfred B. Smith
United Press Today
Chicago
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Smith
New York State
National Democratic Club
Prohibition Seen as Top Issue in 1930s Ohio Politics
Wet forces threaten to derail the prohibition effort as 8 P McNaught of the Ohio Anti Saloon League reports to trustees that the May primaries and national elections will center on prohibition. He says the movement faces a serious period but will persevere despite wets attacks.
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Columbus
U.P
P. McNaught
Ohio Anti-Saloon League
Trustees of the League
Mcl Naught
Dead Men Revived Amid Inquest in Cheltenham
Two Maryland Reformatory youths Godfrey Rickett 17 and John Queen 16 were pulled from a felled tree and revived as a coroner's jury was impaneled. Police and reformatory officials believed them dead after the tree fell on them.
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Cheltenham
Godfrey Rickett
John Queen
Maryland Reformatory
Reformatory
Akron dirigible accident probe begins in Lakehurst
An investigation into the cause of the Akron airship disaster began in Lakehurst New Jersey on Monday after the dirigible was disabled in an accident.
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Lakehurst
N. J
Funeral services for Mrs W H Livingston set Thursday
Funeral services for Mrs W H Livingston will be held Thursday at 2 PM at the First Christian Church with Rev Reed J Downs officiating. Burial will follow in West Union Street Cemetery.
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W. H. Livingston
First Christian Church
Reed J. Downs
West Union Street
Utah Ruling Endorses Cigarette Ad Bans in Public Displays
The Supreme Court approved Utah's anti cigarette advertising law prohibiting display ads for cigarettes cigars smoking and chewing tobacco and substitutes. It covers billboards street signs car signs and placards with newspaper and medical advertising exempted and tobacconists allowed shop signs.
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Washington
U.P
Utah
Supreme Court
Tobacconista
Parma Bureau Members Meet at Athens County Grange Hall
Members of the Athens County Parma Bureau will meet to discuss the bureau’s year program and farmers’ problems from the past year in relation to current conditions at the annual banquet and meeting in the Grange Hall at the Athens County Fairgrounds tonight at seven.
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Athens County
Parma Bureau
Grange Hall
Athens County Fairgrounds
Death of Madame Johan na Gadski in Berlin Automobile Crash
Madame Johan na Gadski a famed soprano died from injuries after an auto accident in Berlin. The car, driven by Frau Bengs, collided with a street car yesterday injuring her husband and several others.
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Berlin
Johanna Gadski
Madame Gadski
Frau Bengs
Bricker Petition Circulates in Athens County
John W. Bricker, member of the Ohio Public Utilities Commission and Republican attorney general candidate, sees a petition circulating in Athens County as part of his campaign.
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John W. Bricker
Ohio Public Utilities Commission
Athens County
Weather notes show cloudy skies and warm highs yesterday
Yesterday temperatures reached the 80s in Los Angeles and Miami with a high near 80 in Miami and 74 in Phoenix. The forecast calls for continued cloudy conditions and mild warmth over the next 36 hours in this vicinity.
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Los
Miami
Phoenix
Stimson Asks Open Door Policy Backed By U S
Secretary of State Stimson stated the United States would stand by the Open Door policy in the Orient and indirectly accused Japan of violating the Nine-Power Treaty and the Kellogg Pact. He warned that undermining these treaties could destabilize the Pacific balance and referenced the Open Door legacy of John Hay in a letter to Senator Borah.
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Washington
Stimson
United States
Orient
Japan
China
Mainle
Ite
Pacific
Agretti
Ita
Shanghai shelling hits international settlement and rail yards
Reports say Chinese artillery bombarded the Shanghai International Settlement wharves tonight after claims that Japanese landing parties were imminent. A Japanese air raid dropped nine bombs on Lunghua and Chenju Railroad yards, damaging platforms and cottages while leaving track intact.
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Shanghai
Lunghua
Chenju
Chinese Defenders Fortify Ruins as Japanese Advance Threatens
Chinese workers reinforce a death trap at Tazang to slow the Japanese. Infantry attack on the Chapel front near an International settlement continues with heavy artillery. Gen Teasuigakain reports the offensive paused awaiting reinforcements. Pilot Robert Short of the Chinese air patrol is killed defending Boochow, hailed as a friend who dared and died.
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Tazang
Teasuigakain
19Th
Chinese Route Army
United Press
Robert Short
Air Tawal
Boochow
Short
Campaign to boycott Japanese goods hits State Department
Private campaign to boycott Japanese goods in the United States has been brought to the attention of the State Department. Unknown organizers send chain letters urging Americans to back China in the Far Eastern quarrel and to pressure Japan by refusing to buy its products.
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Washington
United States
State Department
China
Japan
Japan rejects League note seeks end to hostilities
Tokio spokesman said Japan seeks international intervention and control as the logical solution to the Chinese problem in explaining the government's reply to the League of Nations note calling for an end to hostilities.
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Tokio
Japan
League of Nations
Premier Tardieu Wins Confidence Amid Uproar at Geneva
In Paris the French Chamber of Deputies backed Premier Andre Tardieu 309 to 262 as chaos erupted. The session was suspended three times with fistfights leaving deputies with black eyes torn shirts and bruises, and reinforcements entered to restore order.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
U.R
Andre Tardieu
Geneva
Miami
Zone Rule Upheld in Municipal Court Case
The Ohio Supreme Court affirmed a Municipal Court ruling finding Arthur P Gustafson guilty of violating a zoning safety ordinance. The ruling supports municipal power to require vehicles to pass on the right of safety zones, reversing an earlier county court decision.
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Columbus
San
Municipal Court of Land
Arthur P. Stateon
State Supreme Court
Gustafson
Supi
Preme
City of Land
Cuyahora County
Peala
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King Features, Inc
Independence Committee
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Stock Exchange
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C. W. Sams
al Smith
Roosevelt
U.S
Hayes
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