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Newspaper

Athens Messenger

Location

Athens, Ohio, United States of America

Date

Jan 08, 1932

Page

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Ohio Expenses Raskob Offers Home Rule Plan

Ohio state finances show a sweeping budget shift under Governor White with a $9.65 million cut in total operating expenses from 1950 to 1951. Debts left by the prior administration fell to $540,385, while payments on debts totalled $6.51 million in 1931. General revenue expenditures dropped by $4.97 million from 1930, and aid to weak school districts rose by $155,434 to fund teachers salaries and rehabilitation of school buildings in districts unable to meet costs. Highway costs were trimmed by over $9.5 million despite more miles of permanent roads being built. All departments operated under a 2 percent cut ordered January 1.

Olumbus Jan. B George White Assi Howard L. Bevis Bevis Finance Department Mabe General Revenus Fund White

Death In Unsold Case: Admits Shooting Denies Part

In Delaware Ohio a fatal shooting of 12 year old Kathleen Carver near Bryan is unresolved as coroner awaits ballistic report. Emery Reynolds admits firing toward the house but says he was five to six miles away. William Weller and Wilfred Garver admit being with Reynolds. Garver denies firing.

Depliance Kathleen Carver Bryan Fred W. Watkins Detroit Emery G. Reynolds Ney Gar William Weller Reynolds Wilferd Garver New Filling Station Freynolds

Two Men Fined For Fighting In Court Of Mayor

Widon Mahaffey of Cemetery Street and Stanley McDonald of West Washington Street were fined $10 and costs each by Mayor Robert S Wood in a police court session Thursday night. They faced charges of fighting after Mahaffey, bruised and shocked, was taken home from a West Union Street restaurant.

Widon Mahaffey Cemetery Street Stanley McDonald West Washington Street Robert 5 Wood Mahaffey West Union Street McDonald

Murder charges dropped in Gallipolis fire case

In Gallipolis on January 8, first degree murder charges against 15 year old Albert Ramer and 17 year old Ellsworth Moyer were dropped as both youths repudiated confessions that they set fire to James White’s home. They claimed they were not in Gallipolis on April 7 and had lied for publicity and to escape Lancaster Industrial School where they were held for auto theft.

Gallipolis U.P Alpert Ramer Ellsworth Moy James White Charles Swanson White Swan Creek Albert Raymond Swanson Ramer Moyer Colfax

This Earth Our Hot House by Arthur Brisbane

Today July Rosenwald presents This Earth Our Hot House focusing on social issues and reflections. The column explores human behavior and moral questions with a civic tone.

Juline Rosenwald Mother

Rosenwald obituary and era of benevolence noted

A commemorative notice praises Rosenwald for his ceaseless benevolence across missions and business. It lauds his generosity, leadership as exec president of General Wood Ameri, and the strong, trained successors he left behind amid difficult years. The piece blends tribute with a broader late era mood and mentions New York street-life vignettes.

Execu Wood Ameri Roser Lessing Rosenwald Can Wald New York Max D. Steuer

Stimson Ships Open Door Note After Manchuria Protests

U S protests from firms in Manchuria prompt Secretary Stimson to reaffirm open door policy. He warns Japan and China against any de facto actions or treaties that affect U S rights in China and cites the Kellogg Pact and Paris Covenant. The U S says it will rely on the League of Nations neutral commission to seek a resolution.

Washington U.P State Department Manchuria Stimson America Tokio Ind Ching Ha Peiping Yeaterday China Stmron'a Japan Chiichow South Bandhuria Council of the League of Nations Chinese Republic United States Republic of China

Gifford Urges Local Aid as Best Unemployment Remedy

Walter Gifford, head of Hoover's unemployment relief group, told Senate committees that four or five states can handle their destitute with local, state, and community efforts without federal appropriations. He argued private agencies and local governments have historically provided the majority of relief funds and that state action is feasible this winter.

Washington Walter Gifford Hoover Senate Sta Gheck la Follette-Costigan Committee

Man of Steel Wields Knife On Own Body

Surgeon Evan ONeill Kane, 50, famed for removing his appendix years ago, operated on his own inguinal hernia and treated an intestinal rupture from a horseback accident. The hour and 45 minute self surgery at Kane Summit Hospital required precise nerve and steady hand as he joked with nurses and noted slight drowsiness after the procedure.

Rie Evan O'Neill Kane Deranc Kane Summit Himeelf

Coxs Army Returns from Unemployment March to Pennsylvnia

About 10 000 jobless demonstrators labeled Coxs Army left Washington by truck and bus in an orderly exodus bound for Pennsylvania. The caravan sang patriotic songs as Father James Cox of Pittsburgh supplied food and presented a petition to Congress and to President Hoover demanding broad immediate unemployment relief.

Washington Cox’ Army Pennsylvania James Cox Pittsburgh Congress Hoover

Fliers Bodies Claimed Today After Plane Crash

The bodies of Ruth Stewart and Debbie Stanford, society matrons killed near Harrisburg, were to be sent home today. Ruth Stewart’s husband, a St. Louis lumber manufacturer, claimed her body for return to St. Louis at 12 43 p m. Debbie Stanford’s husband W L Stanford of Camden N J planned to retrieve her body for Camden. The crash site was Sherman Mountain after a pleasure trip from St. Louis to Buenos Aires via New York and Havana.

Farrisburg U.P Ruth Stewart Debbie Stanford Camden St. Louis Buenos Aires New York Havana Paul Comly Wrench United Press Staff Sherman Mountain

Rubber ranches cheaper than overseas supply, intrigue in Singapore

A fragmented note mentions rubber ranches in Singapore and a boast about Uncle Henry Ford and Uncle Harvey Firestone supplying rubber locally. The crude message pitches a cheap, vast rubber empire to cover punctures for years, urging a cable to confirm and proceed.

Will Singapore America Buglard Henry Ford Harvey Firestone Liberia Brazil Kansas Harvey

Yale College advocate backs beer to save youth in Senate hearing

Jean Clarence W. Mandell of Yale College told a Senate hearing that four per cent beer should be legalized to curb hard liquor. He argued beer fosters team play by uniting diverse people, noting students initially sought beer but failed.

Yale College Deex Sayx Washington Jean Clarence W. Mandell Senate Bard Dupe

Warning to combatants from America on Open Door policy

The Hoover Administration defends the Open Door policy in China and vows no treaties that threaten U S interests. Secretary Stimson warns Japan and China to respect the Kellogg Pact and Nine National Pacific Pact provisions.

Spring Signs in Suburb of Athens

Mrs. Charles Creamer on Richland Avenue reports five robins on her lawn yesterday. She says the birds appeared to prey for the season and hunted near the old willows where they have nested for years. She also found daffodils and early blooms in the ground this Wednesday.

Charles Creamer Richland Avenue Creamer

Ritchie's Candidacy Official Yet No Program Outlined

Ritchie announced his candidacy for the presidency last night at the Tonk Hotel amid celebration. He stated a wish to be president and signaled opposition to centralized government, public power ownership, tariffs, war debt cancellation, and national prohibition, while detailed platform proposals were not yet given.

Ritchie Navien Hitchie Jubiiatinn S ‘Tonk Concord Ciah Yvernmento

Eastern railroad consolidation hearings pursued

Washington January 8 The Interstate Commerce Commission hearings focused on the four party eastern railroad merger or four great roads plan. J J Bennet president of the Chesapeake and Ohio and major Van Everingan fing argued only the four party plan is workable and voluntary action cannot form the fifth eastern system. The presidents of the Baltimore and Ohio and the Pennsylvania testified. The plan offers access to New York and use of the Pennsylvania terminal and a route to New York via the Erie.

Washington Porter Interstate Commerce Commission J.J. Bennet Chesapeake & Ohio van Everingan Fing Fast Baltimore & Ohio Pennsylvania Bennet von Swerlogens New York Pennsylvania Terminal Erie

Murderer Electrocuted in Chicago Jail

Frank Bell known as The Squealer died in the electric chair at 12 05 a m in the county jail. He had just reasserted a previously discredited confession to the murder of Alfred J Lingle Chicago newspaper porter. The condemned man who twice escaped death requested pen and paper minutes before his execution while maintaining statements of innocence regarding Leo V Brothers and others.

Chicago Frank Bell Alfred J. Lingle Free Porter Chris. Patras Orep Leo V. Brothers St. Logis Cengetar

Seligman firm linked to Peru loan graft probe

Frederick Strauss testifies before the Senate Finance Committee alleging J and W Seligman paid 393600 to Peruvians including the president and son to steer 400 million in Peru loan funds. He names President Legula and son Juan Le Wud as targets, claims a revolutionary tribunal convicted them, and cites 20 percent foreign subscription with loans made in 1627 and 1998 and defaulted in 1632.

Washington Jan Tlre Mew York Juan Lewud Arell Strauas

Roosevelt boomed as Democratic nomination battle begins

Washington editors indicate Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt or Senator Baker as likely Democratic standard bearer. A newspaper editor survey shows favors Roosevelt or Baker with broad support among 200 editors, while insiders debate Roosevelt’s plan for a restraint referendum and the convention strategy.

Baker Roosevelt

Hurling Charges Mayoralty Campaign Turns Personal in Cleveland

In Cleveland on January 3, Peter Witt and Ray T. Miller traded bitter accusations in their mayoral contest. Miller, the Democratic candidate, accused Witt of accepting a $1 from a Cleveland firm to secure a Toledo garbage disposal site, while Witt backers charged Miller with plotting to blow up a four story building and shielding a Republican politician, Richard Mills.

Cleveland Peter Witt Ray T. Miller Witt HSI Cleveland Corporation Toledo Miller Richard ‘T. Mills

China to Seek League Action Against Japan

Chinese government plans to appeal to the League of Nations to impose economic penalties on Japan under Article XVI of the Covenant. The move aims to reestablish diplomatic ties while calling Kellogg Briand and other treaties to convene and decide concrete steps over the Manchuria situation.

Nanking Jan U.P League of ‘Nations Japan Covanant United Press Ipiamnasiiaias Foreign Office Kellogg Nina Manchuria China

Wire Briefs Plagued by Runaways and Negotiations

Dispatches report runaways from Marist ta Ohio being sought by federal authorities after a car discovery near Marietta. Patton Brand and others missing. Fayetteville Virginia jailbreakers recaptured. Pan American Airways eyeing transatlantic service via English partners. Paul Young surrenders in Houston over Missouri officer killings. a Chicago area case sees a teen driver charged with delinquency after a fatal accident.

Detroit Vian Cochran George Lug Maristta Ohio Patles Jack Cass Betty Brand Nlae Marietta Cada Miss Brand

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