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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1931
Page
1
Governor George W. White, sworn in Columbus, denounces centralized government and pledges to shield farmers and homeowners from new taxes. He urges referenda on taxation and cites the State Penitentiary disaster as a national shame while urging local self-government and fiscal reform.
President Hoover approves a Red Cross appeal for ten million dollars to aid drought and unemployment distress. The approval aims to calm congressional pressure for broader relief. some critics say the amount will not suffice. House leaders plan to move quickly to remove the Senate addition of fifteen million dollars for farmer food loans.
ARTHUR BRISBANE reports a $45 million crop loan measure faces a Rules Committee rule aimed to block amendments as the House and Senate seek conference. LaGuardia opposes limited debate and pushes for city relief while backing Red Cross funds and a $30 million federal grant. Hoover supports aid beyond current funds.
President Paul Shoup of the Southern Pacific Railroad invites travelers to visit Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico describing them as the biggest cave discovered. He suggests touring the caverns then continuing to the Pacific Coast to see the Pacific Ocean.
In New York Messrs Eaton of Republic Steel Campbell of Youngstown Company and Grace of Bethlehem Steel plan a two billion dollar merger. The piece notes a shift from past muckraking limits and hints at evolving anti-trust scrutiny, with continuation on Page 4.
The editorial laments years of neglect in state charitable and penal institutions and urges immediate conscience driven reform. It notes drought, unemployment and hunger as pressures, with relief efforts ongoing as the year ends and hope for better days ahead.
A Greyhound bus bound for Chicago went off the road three miles east of here during a blinding snowstorm last midnight injuring nine passengers. The vehicle demanded action by rescuers as crews attended the injured and secured the scene.
Beverly Hills column sketches a mock one act scene in the U S Senate flash room. Senators discuss pressuring Herbie to relinquish power, while others toast keeping promises as 1932 looms. The piece ends with a promise to continue tomorrow.
Washington January 12 The House Rules Committee adopted a rule to send the drought relief bill to conference with the Senate by a majority vote. Rep LaGuardia of New York was barred from testifying as the panel moved to proceed despite his push for urban food loans. The measure totals 60 million in seed and livestock aid plus 15 million for human food, with LaGuardia having blocked a conference last week over urban aid.
Elizabeth Finke 28 of Millfield was fined $100 for drunkenness and sent to Marysville Woman's Reformatory after arraignment before Magistrate C. H. Porter, while Tessie Harrington of Lathrop pleaded guilty to liquor possession with no sentence given. Charles Carr of Sugar Creek is jailed on a liquor charge awaiting trial. officers report home brew on his property and he claimed no guilt.
Southeastern Ohio man today became governor of Ohio after winning the Democratic ticket last November. Mr. White, elected to Congress three times from a Republican district, chaired the Democratic National Committee. He has long resided in southeastern Ohio and went to Alaska in the Klondike rush of 1898 before operating oil and gas fields in the district.
In Columbus on January 12, four Senate bills seek to repeal state prohibition laws. Senator Joseph L. Ackerman of Cleveland introduces three bills to scrap the Miller Law the Dow-Aiken Law and the Crabbe Act, plus a proposal to repeal Temperance Day observance in schools. Senator Herner of Monroeville files a duplicate Ackerman measure.
CHICAGO, Jan. 12 A determined mother from St Louis challenged authorities preparing to bring Leo VY Brothers from a secret prison to charge him with the slaying of Alfred Lingle She says her son is 2% not 32 and declares they will be glad to quit after she confronts them with guns fear.
In Marietta on Friday protests failed to stop the Parkersburg Zanesville line. The morning northbound and evening southbound train serving points between the two cities appears set for removal with the new schedule due in a few days.
Lieut. Gov. William G. Pickrel was formally inducted in a brief Senate Chamber ceremony. Chief Justice Carrington T. Marshall administered the oath. Secretary of State Clarence J. Brown delivered the commission and the governor’s signing pen, praising Pickrel for his anticipated fair rulings and leadership.
Waldo Way, 19, of Belpre Ohio side, suffered painful injuries when the car he rode in struck a street car at Market and Ninth Streets Friday night. Driver Tom Gainer of Belpre escaped injury and Way was taken to City Hospital.
Governor George White of Washington County is Ohio's first chief executive from the area in 121 years. A Princeton AB in 1895, he studied under Woodrow Wilson and later sought fortune in Alaska during the 1898 gold rush with E F P Andrews. The pair endured hardships before returning to oil and finance, leading to two terms in Congress and service in the Ohio House and the Democratic National Committee.
Governor George White outlines reform aims including ending legislative over production and simplifying laws. He pledges equitable taxation, economic state government, constitutional governance, and forward looking action to combat drought unemployment and fire losses.
The Inaugural Committee honoring Gov George W White paid tribute to retiring Governor Myers Y Cooper. They praised his tenure for welfare, economics, construction and administration and expressed warm wishes for his future life and lasting ties with Franklin County and Columbus. Signed by committee members.
Senator James J. Davis of Pennsylvania rebukes Nye of the Senate Campaign Investigating Committee over attempts to unseat him. He calls his life an open book lacking dis honor and chicanery and disputes charges that his ticket spent 1.2 million dollars in the 1930 primary. He says campaign funds aided Francis Shunk Brown’s governor race and credits integrity and humanitarian achievement for his election.
Detroit resumes activity as thousands of workers return to auto plants including Ford River Rouge. Street car lines are reactivated to handle the surge, with factories and other major centers resuming production after months of idle status.
Reports that Hanford MacNider the American minister to Canada would resign and return to assist President Hoover in a reelection campaign circulated in the capital over the past week but lack support from official quarters. White House aides say MacNider would not resign.
In Maryville Missouri a mob seized Raymond Gunn a Black man accused in the Velma Colter case and burned him near the Nodaway County courtroom. Sheriff Harve English was attacked as the suspect was seized and driven toward the rural schoolhouse where Colter was fatally wounded.
Oslo reports Christmas seals, modeled on U S designs, funded an ambulance airplane for coastal and northern Norway. The plane will transport patients to hospitals and move physicians to isolated areas.
A lighted cigarette toppled from a lamp on a Davenport at Walter Rollins 117 East Tompkins Street starting a fire Sunday night. Firefighters extinguished the blaze with $250 damage reported.
Zensaku Azuma, a Japanese pilot who completed a solo flight from the United States via Europe and Siberia, arrived in Tokyo and then Yokohama. He plans to sail for Los Angeles aboard the Tatsuto Maru to restart his chop suey restaurant business, having sold his L A restaurant a year earlier. He found aviation less profitable than running a restaurant in Japan.
George W. White became Ohio's 52nd governor in a Columbus ceremony with oath from Chief Justice Carrington Marshall. Myers Y. Cooper presented the commission, and White pledged to uphold laws and run a limited government as officials and many from Marietta observed.
Akron reports tire prices reduced to the lowest level in history. The move follows late December reductions by mail order houses and a mid winter flyer catalogue announcing cuts from eight to fourteen percent, signaling sustained price drops.
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