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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1923
Page
1
Soviet led units in Central Europe mobilize across multiple fronts as tensions escalate. Allied observers monitor troop concentrations near key cities while diplomatic efforts seek to avert a broader conflict.
Dr. H H Goddard, former head of the state juvenile research bureau and Ohio State University professor, says released insane patients labeled cured pose risks after two attacks by former inmates. One killed Cleveland merchant Harry Keim. another injures Washington County teacher Alice Dunbar.
In Columbus Ohio on January 17 the senate concurred with the house to adjourn early. A wave of public hearings is planned on bills including utilities reform, gasoline tax, school bus insurance, and light water facility expansions. Harvey Dow Nice died by self-inflicted gunshot after an attack on Miss Alice Dunbar, with a lynching mob report and coroner verdict. details describe wounds, skin grafts, and the discovery of revolvers in Nice’s home.
Reports from Paris say war clouds gather over eastern Europe as France expands military activity in Germany. Poland's mobilization was denied by Warsaw while Lithuania seizes Memel, tightening tensions among the Little Entente and neighboring states.
Paris reports Secretary Hughes states the United States does not intend to determine Germanys reparations amount. Roland Boyden, observer on the reparations commission, has no instructions to present a plan. The note underscores U S noninvolvement in setting reparations terms.
The piece notes funds flowing from America to Lithuania for a large standing army, while Eastern Europe braces for possible conflict. It cites French demobilization concerns, Polish gunboat actions at Memel, and Italy withdrawing moral support of France over Ruhr occupation.
Washington January 16. Representative Mrs Winifred Mason Huck of Paris introduces a constitutional amendment calling for a national referendum to decide if the United States should go to war whenever threatened. The measure aims to curb executive war powers and invites public input on conflict decisions.
A rule of thumb states that about twice as much power is required to bring an express train to a stop compared with starting it.
Athens will host the temple of the Dramatic Order of Knights of Korassan, formed by 42 Knights of Pythias lodges across Athens Meigs Wash ington Vinton Gallia Perry and Morgan counties. Officers include R A White Nelsonville T H Mills Middleport Dallas Andrews Buchtel J R Reynolds Logan and others with temple plans in Athens and a future Dokk temple building anticipated.
An observation notes the Veddas of Ceylon as nearly extinct, with none known to laugh and an apparent inability to tell a lie. The remark underscores a perceived cultural stereotype about honesty and humor.
French troops concentrate actions in the Ruhr area advancing toward Hamm if coal deliveries from German mines stop. Paris confirms German reluctance to cooperate with reparations and Berlin influences. A German police assault on American correspondent Lincoln Eyre was acknowledged with apologies.
In Bastrop Louisiana on January 17 a raid by unmasked Ku Klux Klan members on farmer Alonzo J L Braddock’s home led to his abduction. Sheriff Carpenter faced recall over his claim he allowed Klan cleanup. Braddock later faced whiskey charges but was acquitted. An official search warrant showed a possible date erasure to imply validity on the raid night.
Coblenz reports insistence that American soldiers did not hold wild drinking bouts upon leaving Germany contradicting a Paris edition claim. Acknowledges U S troops faced no such widespread celebration as alleged.
Washington January 17 The White House says Mrs. Harding is now assured in her recovery after a prolonged convalescence. The first lady has left the wheelchair behind and can walk about the White House rooms. She again presides at dinner portions and hosts a few close friends nightly while catching up on correspondence with her secretary.
Neen of soldiers has now passed neen of soldiers has now passed. Little Rock Arkansas January 17. Orders to Company H of the 141st Anti-aircraft Company of the Arkansas National Guard to entrain for Harrison, where a tense situation had been created by terrorist methods against the Missouri and North Arkansas railway, were recalled today. The troops were to have left here at 9 o clock last night.
A Berlin communique reports Clara Zetkin Karl Radek and J T W Newbold proposing a general European labor strike. They urge workers in London Vienna Amsterdam and other capitals to announce a coordinated action end of the month and hold a communist strike conference that Sunday to show pacific labor strength.
Copenhagen dispatch reports the Polish government has begun conscripting males aged 18 to 40 for military service. General Pilsudski travels to Brest Litovsk to study Russian troop movements on the frontier while Leon Trotzky is expected with Russian forces.
London dispatch reports the British cabinet advised Stanley Baldwin to return home to deliver a full report on new options for funding the 4.277 billion dollar British debt. The move follows discussions led by Baldwin, exchequer head, part of the debt funding mission in Washington.
Washington January 17 A temporary deadlock develops between the British and American debt funding commissions. Negotiations over liquidating the 5 billion war debt stall as Britain awaits cabinet instructions and the American side demands concrete proposals. Both sides show gloom over unresolved interest rate terms.
A USC student Phillip Johnston was shot in the right foot after P. A. Banks drew a pistol during a sophomore hazing incident at a party on the University of Southern California campus.
S J Tewksbury of Albany faced Magistrate Hedges on cruelty to animals charges. The owner admitted tying a brindle cow to a rope behind a buggy. the rope slipped, the animal was dragged, and he shot the cow to end its suffering. He paid a $25 fine plus costs and was discharged.
Fire destroyed a large clothing warehouse on Hopkins Place and threatened the wholesale district. The Rock Hall School dormitory burned last night nearly wiping out the building.
State's Attorney Delos Duty urged the jury to impose the death penalty on Otis Clark Joe Carnaghi Leva Mann Peter Hiller and Bert Grace for the murder of Howard Hoffman in the Herrin mine massacre trial. The statement framed the verdict as swift and retributive justice for the June 22 killing.
Claire Rogers 18, cousin of playwright Eugene O Neil, vanished after leaving Columbia University three days ago en route to her aunt's Riverside Drive apartment. Her brother William Rogers of Hartford aided in the search but admits no clue to her whereabouts, a mystery rivaling the Dorothy Arnold case.
Columbus Ohio January 17 19 a measure to prohibit motor buses for hire without a certificate of convenience and necessity from the state utilities commission was introduced by Senator Collister of Cuyahoga county. The bill sets a tax from two to seven cents per mile based on bus capacity.
Lima reports a decline in deaths in Alien county's rural districts per the annual vital statistics by Dr. John J. Sutter's. The document notes lower rural mortality and highlights trends in regional health data for the year.
In Columbus on January 17 the state motion picture censor's board ordered the ban on The Strangers Banquet by Marshal Neilan. Labor groups say the feature misrepresents labor and prompted the restriction.
Paris January 17 France has authorized General De Goutte to arrest and hold as hostages German mine owners in the Ruhr to insure coal and coke deliveries to the allies, an authoritative source said this afternoon.
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