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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1935
Page
1
President Roosevelt pushes Congress for a 34 billion dollar budget to fund employment programs and a balanced budget. He warns of a growing deficit and insists no new taxes during the initial push while keeping the 1934 soldier bonus and debt concerns in view.
Worth Texas January 7. Bilson a Cleve native faces imminent death January 15. Once a carpenter who helped build homes he now reflects on a life spent in steady work and perseverance despite hardships.
In STOWN on January 7 AP reports Krebs a 29 year old engineer for the Youngs and Tube Co committed suicide by shooting himself in the mouth in his apartment, Hayes announced. Krebs son of W A Krebs of Pitts elder, once made a notable record at Carnegie Tech.
Arthur Harwell Ferro leaped from a hospital window on the third floor. He had been ill with pneumonia and died. The incident occurred in Nati on January 7 with hospital staff attending to him at the time.
The article notes Nequin won a grand prize at a Paris invention event praising practical engine ideas. It hints at many people profiting from ideas and mentions Mes classified want ads and a ban on something related to advertised items.
Beverly Hills column notes a quiet Sunday as Congress stalled last week. The writer predicts Monday may bring tax burdens, Hauptmann case delays, and a looming presidential message to Congress, framing the day as reflection.
Baton Rouge January 7 The Square Deal Association formed by Standard Oil employees and citizens orders Senator Huey Long to abdicate his Louisiana power. They telegraphed Governor Allen and lawmakers demanding repeal of dictatorial laws within 10 days. Long plans to address the Senate in Washington amid charges of intimidation and oil-tax disputes.
Rome dispatch says a Franco Italian accord between Mussolini and Laval may spur Germany to rejoin the League of Nations. Observers see a possible non intervention pact with Berlin and France legalizing Germanys rearmament in exchange. Officials deem the Franco Italian accord a significant step toward peace in Europe.
Mae West's father Jack West aged 65, former boxer and real estate dealer, died of a heart ailment in an Oakland hotel. The body will be taken to Los Angeles for funeral services then to Brooklyn to lie beside his wife. Also noted is the death of Marilyn June Ulbrich, 26 months, daughter of Clarence Wobrich, from pneumonia after four weeks illness. Grandparents listed are J. E. Bowles and C. W. Ulbrich.
Ester Stewart 83 of town died Sunday morning after a long illness. Funeral services are set for Wednesday afternoon at 2 o clock.
H M Spang FERA director says four more farms in the Nelsonville area are now under option for subsistence homesteads along the Hocking River. The 1085 acre parcel adds to hill land and includes Jackson Franks New York Coal Co and Stout and Baird Brothers Davis and Johnson farms. Rehabilitation officials will draft specifications covering land use costs layout and financing with a Washington hearing set for January 25 and construction possible in April if funds are approved.
Passengers from the Ward Line Havana tell of a calm breakfast before lifeboat departure after the ship struck a Bahaman coral reef. One passenger, Robert Rittenhouse, died in a lifeboat. a sailor remained missing and one lifeboat swamped.
In Cincinnati on January 7, two suspects Carl Grathwohl age 24 and Walter Hessberger age 27 faced robbery charges and a third Robert Millson was held for investigation after two assailants kicked Mr Jones under a bed taking 145 dollars from the home of Mr and Mrs Alfred Jones. The couple identified one attacker, leading to arrest at a night clue.
Funeral services were held at Graham Station West Virginia for Phillip Sayre a 14 year old fatally wounded Saturday afternoon at his home. He and a neighbor boy were shooting at a mark near a barn when the shotgun fell and discharged wounding him beneath the right arm. He died en route to Gallipolis hospital.
Climaxing a turbulent opening day Representative J Freer Bittinger Democrat Ashland County was chosen speaker of the Ohio House by a 69 to 66 vote. The Democrats, in a minority, allied with a small number of Republicans after a three hour parliamentary battle.
Saarbrucken report on the January 7 plebiscite testing public resolve after 15 years under League of Nations supervision. Five thousand workers cast ballots in a dress rehearsal, with fears of disorder avoided and counting slated a week later. Political shifts and senate leadership appointments also surfaced amid talks of taxation and social policy.
Betty Gow, the Lindbergh nursemaid, testifies for the state identifying the baby under shirt and thumbguard. Defense seeks to show the kidnapping was planned by others and probes clues including a sailor friend and the Lindberghs’ movements.
Robert Hugus a senior at Rome High School Stewart won the gold medal in the Tenth Congressional District Peace Declamation contest held at the First Baptist Church in Gallipolis Ohio The five county winners from Athens Vinton Jackson Lawrence and Gallia competed with Hugus heading to the state contest later this season where cash prizes and college scholarships await the top three.
The motion picture committee of the Ohio Pastors' Convention will meet in Columbus to arrange discussions on improving films at the convention in Columbus from February 4 to 7.
Night riders and union strikers confronts at Richmond Hosiery Mill in Roswell Ga as guardsmen arrayed with machine guns bayonets and tear gas stand guard. Nationwide pay cut sparks walkout while arrests illustrate tense stand off along the Tennessee Georgia border.
Police tie a Kentucky slaying to George Pryor 41 after a dog dragged the victim’s right arm into Kosmosdale. Officers say Fonzie Bratcher 24, once jailed, was killed. Pryor admits the crime claiming Bratcher threatened him with a knife. Pryor led investigators to buried remains and stated further body parts are missing.
The state presents its version of the monner by which Charles August Lindbergh Jr. was killed after a kidnapper descended the ladder with him from the second floor nursery. The ladder broke and the child fell to the ground dying instantly. Attorney General David Wilentz named Bruno Hauptmann as the man on the ladder.
In Columbus two transient camp workers were killed after being struck by an auto near Chardon while returning to their camp. Harry Miller, 42, of Frostburg Maryland and Thomas Nelson, 48, of Sheboygan Michigan died in Ohio traffic incidents over the weekend. A Marion man and two Clevelanders were among the fatally injured. others include George Clough, 2, and Mary Daley, 5, who died in Cleveland hospitals from crash injuries. Charles Wentz, 26, was charged with manslaughter in Middletown after fingerprints on shattered glass tied to Carroll Fleming, 17, of Treton, Ohio, killed Friday night when a parked auto was struck by a truck.
Nineteen year old Esta Stone of Luhrig pleaded guilty after tearing wiring and the distributor from her father W. M. Stone’s car. The affidavit filed by the father before Magistrate C. H. Porter charged the act. Stone was fined $10 and castes. Deputy Sheriff Roy Goldsberry made the arrest.
Kansas City police probed a dark downtown hotel death after a husky young stranger was found nude and tortured in a room. About 300 viewers failed to identify the victim, and no solid clues emerged to explain the tragedy dated 1926. The room had housed the man for three days under the name Roland T. Owen from Los Angeles.
Peter Sabian, 47, an employee at the state executive mansion in Columbus, said he was slightl y wounded in a fight with two unidentified men who tried to steal one of Governor George White's cars.
Washington January Supreme Court set to rule on emergency New Deal laws including the national industrial recovery act section governing oil production
A car crashed into a cement abutment on the Neuse River Bridge near Wake Forest killing driver Clayton Mizarelle of Windsor and three passengers Leon White James Morris of Windsor and Katherine Batchelor of Durham. Six others were injured. The group was traveling from Robersonville toward Durham.
Cincinnati journalist and former sports and political writer George A Davies died Sunday at his Foster home. Davies, aged 64, had worked for papers in Columbus and St. Louis and later served as an editorial writer.
County deputies expected a busy Saturday night but after Sheriff Stratton and Deputy Gardner left for California the remaining three deputies waited until midnight for a rush that never came. No calls arrived all night and they went to bed.
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