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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1931
Page
1
Mussolini declares Italy will not start war and seeks peace in a New Year broadcast from Rome. The premier asserts Italy enjoys sound conditions and no regime has peace like Italy, while other leaders also push peace in respective countries.
In New Fort on January 2 Mussolini's New Year radio address urging peace drew crowds. Police blocked loudspeaker use citing anti noise laws as anti fascists and fascists clashed in front of a newspaper office with banners reading Down With Mussolini Down With Fascism.
The premier cites economic hardship in Italy and unemployment to frame public works as a remedy. He praises Italy's friendship with the United States and Italy’s diaspora, then calls for universal disarmament and global cooperation to advance peace. He notes suffering yet asserts progress through shared effort.
Toledo felon known as Cadillac Joe Kucisski was sentenced to 11 to 18 years in Ohio Penitentiary for bank robbery and was safely lodged after an escape attempt during transport from the railroad station in Columbus.
The Athens Messenger offers a 9 by 21 by 28 inch world map reprinted in five colors on fine paper. It folds into a pocket size for ready reference and is advertised as a wonderful value at ten cents. Use this coupon.
The era notes quirky prognostications and grand claims about markets and science. It mentions copper and cotton dips, canary birds, German scientists, and a new drug with quinoline linked to safety. A comet scare is tied to almond odor and a diphtheria toxin breakthrough using short radio waves.
Wilbur Grimes aged 17 of Athens was sent to the Boys Industrial School at Lancaster after confessing to breaking into and robbing a West Unto Street restaurant on Christmas night. Part of the stolen money was recovered. Marty Stump, 16, of Athena Township, was sent to the Girls’ Thirrs trial Shoot at Delaware for general delinquency.
United Press reports New Year holidays in New York and across the United States killed 83 people. Traffic crashes caused 54 deaths, including 20 in Chicago, with drownings, gunshot injuries, and alcohol related incidents also contributing.
American newspaper correspondent Hart Well Ayers was wounded today amid revolutionary fighting in Panama City. The report notes ongoing clashes and the involvement of foreign press personnel in the conflict.
Beverly Hills notes tease Will Rogers and others for predicting the year's events. The letter mocks forecasts as vague and sarcastically offers criticism of public figures and trends. A reader expresses mixed amusement and skepticism about predictions and national pthings.
Dr. Hyman Meltzer, psychologist at the Psichiatric Clinic of St. Louis and Washington University, reported a test showing women recall more pleasant experiences after holidays. He noted a six week gap increased the remembered pleasant events and cited compensation psychology as the basis.
Prof Albert Einstein will observe Mount Wissen Observatory findings on spectral line shifts and nebulae during a brief Pasadena visit to Cal Tech. Dr Pantz Epstein explained how Einstein’s theories relate to these astronomical observations amid debates on universe shape changes.
Wallace died yesterday after several weeks of illness. A funeral service will be held here Saturday and the body will be taken to Tacoma for burial. Wallage was a longtime Democratic political figure and a close adviser to President Wilson on Western affairs. His wife was the daughter of Chief Justice Melville Fuller.
Paris report says Marshal Joffre remained in a coma at 10:50 p.m. with his heart weakening each minute. In Columbus a housekeeper, Rose O Farrell, was found dead at the parsonage from heart disease.
Walter Wents, 25, died at Mansfield Ohio hospital from a bullet wound suffered early in the week while hunting. The death was reported today as a fatal hunting accident. Authorities investigated the incident and no further details were available.
Winners are announced in the Athens Meeting Contest sponsored by the Athens Merchants Association and The Athens Messenger. First prize goes to FP J Beasley Grandview Feights and George Whipple North Congress Street. prizes total 344.20 with other top homes named and invited to claim Saturday prizes.
In Cincinnati on January 2 Charles Di Virgille 40 shot and killed his divorced wife Josephine in the auditorium of the old Metropolitan Theater claiming jealousy. The theater was nearly empty when Di Virgille fired three shots as Mia Di Virellio and Joseph Valerio entered the venue. Di Virgille surrendered to police and admitted intent to shoot Valerio.
A Grand Trunk passenger train collided with an automobile on New Year’s Day in Harvey, Cook County. Nine people in the car died, part of 17 automobile fatalities that day, including members of the Frank Kowsk and Matthew Olason families. A ten occupant, a 10 month old baby, was thrown into a snow ditch but later survived.
A 16-year-old Nelsonville youth John McDowell died in the Columbus county jail after arrest for drunkenness. Coroner reports say dilation of heart caused by fatigue or drink may be factor. police trace movements from Nelsonville to Columbus. Death under investigation with family asserting no liquor use.
Detectives investigate the murder of Carl Weil age 23 a part owner of the Pennsylvania Hotel Cleveland wounded fatally in a shooting at a speakeasy apartment during New Year Day violence that wounded two other men. Two gamblers sought in connection with the case as authorities probe a spate of New Year Day shootings.
William A. Williams, 60, custodian of the First Trust & Savings Bank, died from a heart attack. His body was found near the bank building’s heating plant yesterday, authorities said in Zanerville, Ohio.
Cincinnati reports identify Mildred Opal Gower of Perry County near New Lexington as the murdered hotel victim found at the Metropole. Her uncle Charles M. McClintock confirms the abduction from her New Lexington home two years earlier.
Washington reports focus on Federal Farm Board actions and questions on investigation commissions. Discussion centers on committee duties, potential reforms, and Impacts on market prices and consumer costs.
Washington reports the four system Prater world consolidation plan awaits approval by the Interstate Commerce Commission within days after a Mirad executives meeting in New York. Opponents in Congress exist though observers say the commission holds the final decision and insiders note likely support from at least six of eleven commission members.
Cleveland January reports at the Advance Science convention show Dr. L Don Leet of Harvard Systemograph Station explaining that explosion waves differ in slack deposits versus solid rock, a method to explore 25000 year old glacier movements across America.
A boy who had been held captive was freed and returned to his parents on New Year’s Day after a sequence of events. Investigators and legal authorities weighed whether the abduction was linked to other crimes, while Adolphus spoke after his release but his family sought to protect them from further questioning.
Dayton reports 6,000 employees to be hired for factory work and $7,008,000 in orders for new materials to support plants. Pacehter, president and general manager of Theris Hidaire Corp, a GM subsidiary, announced the plan. Prosecutor Warren sought to review graft scandal in Nile police case. Doward Wa Kennedy ousted as Monten ant caused the decision.
Details emerged on a fresh Nicaraguan outbreak linked to rebel Sandino forces as the State Department noted ongoing upheaval. The United States has a gradual withdrawal policy and fewer than 1,000 Marines remain in Nicaragua amid jungle warfare and difficult reconnaissance.
President Hoover announced the London Naval Treaty as he hosted a reception for 6,429 guests in the White House. The event followed the formal proclamation and featured conversations with notable attendees including Arthur J. Desens and Charita Fy Ht A. Unintan as well as Miss Hoover greeting visitors.
The widow of Rudolph Wurlitzer, founder of the Wurlitzer company, died at her Cincinnati home on New Year’s Day. Born in Ribender France, she immigrated to America with her father Charles Fropy in 1849 and later moved from New York.
An American radio address labeled Mussolini a threat to peace and warned that fascist aggression would not be tolerated. The speaker condemned fascist policies and asserted the United States would oppose any warlike actions.
An earthquake was recorded on the seismograph at Regis College in Denver Colorado. Father P W Forstall estimates the disturbance center was not far off the North American continent and promised a thorough check before releasing further details.
A four story Baltimore plant building burned with at least one death and multiple injuries. Firefighters faced collapsing walls as they fought the flames and searched for victims. A plant operator, Joseph A. Douglass, was killed in the blaze. An aged woman and a man, Bailey, died in separate incidents linked to the disaster.
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