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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1936
Page
1
In Chicago reports the Senate delay on a measure to redeem veteran service certificates, replacing them with bonds or cash, with immediate cash options but no change in payment method. A farm bill debate grows amid push for soil conservation cash payments and broader production controls as committees weigh funding and tax considerations.
Fascist invaders pressed on in Ethiopia as heavy rains slow northward movements and desert heat plus malaria fevers hinder advances. Air raids near Negele killed six and wounded forty as Britain reinforces Mediterranean options with ships and new cruisers.
Vice Admiral Arthur J. Hepburn will assume duties as commander in chief of the fleet in June after being elevated to Rear Admiral. He rises to the highest post in the U S Navy.
In STER Minnesota Floyd Olson announces campaign to run for U S Senate against Thomas D Schall after recovering from stomach operation. Olson vows to press Supreme Court issues while campaigning from Mayo Clinic. Schall was killed in a Washington accident months earlier.
Police hunted a gang of safecrackers who opened a safe at a fuel company and obtained $1,000 while a table radio was tuned to broadcasts. Investigators believe the crime has ties to a yearlong spree, with no contact established with police at this time.
Fragmentary notes describe a confrontation near Judson Farrell with a rabbit and an elephant symbol. Names like Worman and lines about politics hint at a symbolic or satirical scene without clear actions or outcome.
Ray Potts former Summit County sheriff and 15 Akron and Summit County residents await trial in Cleveland on conspiracy charges. The government says the defendants conspired to violate internal revenue laws by failing to register stills and transporting selling and possessing liquor without tax stamps. Twenty six of the 32 indicted appeared. Potts and 16 others pleaded innocent, nine pleaded guilty, one had pleaded guilty earlier and several remain at large.
Paul Schrader arraigned on a charge of driving while intoxicated before Mayor Kenneth Fitzgerald at Logan. Schrader pleaded guilty, was fined $100 and costs, and had driving rights suspended for six months. State patrolmen J B Grogan and J H Gorham arrested him on Route 31 in Logan Saturday night.
Investigation into Thursday night’s blast that wrecked the Pendleton town hall continued after the identification of a fourth victim, Charles McLain, 56, of Warren Ohio. Deputy Sheriff Fred Gossett said McLain, a toolmaker, was identified by a leg bandage he had worn, and he is believed to have sought shelter at the hall.
Congressman Thomas R. Amlie of Wisconsin, president of the American Commonwealth Political Federation, said the 1936 presidential campaign will pit Republicans on a minimum dole versus Democrats on work making. He called both plans "utterly lousy and inadequate" and urged a philosophy of abundance with government production if needed.
In British Guiana the Albert 8 Ward Post of the American Legion launches a fourth expedition to locate Paul Redfern, the U S flier missing since 1927. Three prior parties push into the jungle toward an Indian village where a crippled man said to be Redfern may be held.
Chicago observers saw brighter odds for the Townsend pension plan as the House approved the soldiers bonus. Robert E. Clements, Townsend movement head, predicted at least 100 new representatives joining the Townsend bloc. He argued immediate bonus payments boost purchasing power, urging monthly pensions as steady circulation. Townsendites want a 2 percent transactions tax to fund $200 monthly pensions for every person over 60.
Five people died in Ohio highway crashes on Sunday. Mont Trageser, 37, died after his coupe hit a bridge railing near Ravenna. Tom Hanna, 67, was struck and killed in Columbus. William Brand, 22, of Cincinnati, died when his car skidded and plunged down a 10 foot embankment near Harmiton. Edward Frazier, 19, Columbus, and Gene Greenwood, 20, of Quincy were injured fatally near Chillicothe in a collision with a truck. Five others were injured but not seriously.
British author Rudyard Kipling was rushed to a London hospital and underwent an emergency operation for a gastric disorder. The first bulletin noted urgent surgery and a noon update said he was doing as well as could be expected.
In the Fifth Corps area December saw an 81 percent drop in CCC enrollees. Fort Hayes reports 40,123 men across 216 camps in Ohio Kentucky Indiana and West Virginia.
Philadelphia Judge Harry 8 McDevitt set a two week limit on a honeymoon while issuing a warrant for Louis Hamburg on a two week old speeding charge. Hamburg said he was starting on his wedding trip and the judge quipped that a week seems long enough for a honeymoon these days.
Astoria Oregon reports that a 410 foot intercoastal freighter was driven ashore at Peacock Spit by a 76 mph hurricane. Coast guards say none of the crew survived as six battered bodies washed to the shore. Ongoing gale and mountainous waves hampered rescue efforts along the Columbia River bar.
Cleveland police question two girls and check fingerprints on a bloody hammer after 17 year old Joseph Koran Jr. is found near death with a crushed skull. He regains consciousness briefly and names a first girl as his assailant. Detective sergeant investigates rival suitor revenge and bootleg hush murder theories. Parents report he left home to visit a girl and was found in the car in the garage.
New York mourns former Mayor John F. Hylan who died Sunday at 68 from a heart attack. Mayor LaGuardia orders half staff flags and a uniformed escort for Wednesday's funeral. Hylan, 1917 to 1925 mayor, was a justice of the Children's Court at his death. body lies at Forest Hills home before services at a Brooklyn church.
Gallia County candidate John Halliday Jr. announces his bid for prosecuting attorney. He led the ticket for the post two years ago and spent part of the last year in the state house at Columbus as an official appointed by Governor Martin L. Davey.
Announcement of a one cent cut in bread prices by three large Cleveland chains stirs debate among delegates at the Ohio Bakers Association convention which opened today.
Bruno Hauptmann's lawyers add two Washington attorneys as clemency appeals fail. Bernard Finnigan claims a Chicago jail source paid $22,000 in Lindbergh ransom bills to three men, bought at 40 cents on the dollar, but the buyer was arrested. Hauptmann's lead counsel says any new evidence helps, though the ransom money remains a focal issue.
Washington hearings cited evidence that some American munitions makers pledged to fulfill British orders even if it hurt U S needs. J P Morgan denied responsibility for war trade influencing U S entry while investigators questioned Bond sales practices. Morgan called the bond push an educational campaign and defended his bank's conduct.
Despondent over a life time of ill health Miss Eva Stevers 37 Mercerville died in Holzer Hospital after taking a mixture of lysol and paris green Saturday night. She was a daughter of John Stevers and is survived by three brothers Lee John and Hugh Stevers and three sisters.
Two sons officiated at funeral services Sunday for Mrs. James B. Carruthers 75 in Painesville. The obituary notes her passing and family attendance.
Irvin Cobb extols smaller figures in Washington referencing past Morgan antics and mockingly notes many House members could fill the Liliputian role. He suggests size jokes about politicians and office-holders, implying a decline in stature among lawmakers.
Governor Davey granted Jacob Sulkin a 60 day reprieve from scheduled execution at the Ohio Penitentiary. Sulkin, 43, has faced multiple stays amid appeals in four Toledo gang murder cases. Prominent Toledo figures lobbied to save him as he was once seen as a boy hero during a local youth movement.
Samuel L. Rothafel known as Roxy, a leading motion picture producer, died today of a heart attack at the Hotel Gotham in New York. He leaves his widow, a daughter Mrs. George Bijur of New York, and a son Arthur, 25, an advertising man in San Francisco. Born in Stillwater Minnesota, he served in the Marine Corps from 1900 to 1907 retiring as a major and built a career from Pennsylvania theaters to Minneapolis and finally the Strand Theater in New York.
A disgruntled lawyer killed Attorney Christopher G. Kinney in Chicago Circuit Court and fired at presiding Judge John Pryastalski who ducked behind the bench to escape the gunfire. The attacker then fled.
Two Ohio State University researchers Paul Darby and Dr Willard Bennett report discovering a negatively charged hydrogen atom beam using an electron microscope. The find, hailed as a missing link in atomic structure, could open broad fundamental research and influence future atom studies, though immediate industrial applications are unlikely.
The Supreme Court unanimously ordered the return of $200 million in impounded processing taxes to taxpayers and adjourned without ruling on the Bankhead Act and the Tennessee Valley Authority constitutionality. The decision leaves open the potential for further review in related cases and notes the AAA changes did not cure constitutional flaws.
Dr Byron Danford fell from a second story window at the Security Bank Building and is listed in only fair condition at Sheltering Arms Hospital. He rests fairly comfortably with a broken right leg between the hip and knee and a lacerated wound above the right eye. no skull fracture reported.
Rep Fulmer requests a new farm relief type. A man sought a 200 loan to court an attractive widow with a farm. He claimed a year on the farm would suffice to repay the loan.
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