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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1938
Page
1
State examiners report a cash shortage of 1785.23 dollars in the Athens Water Works after 18 months of records review. Payments totaling 2721 dollars reduced the deficit. the examiners will finalize accounts after completing checks in Columbus.
Toledo officials seek the arrest of Bernard A. Boggio former Wayne County Michigan assistant prosecutor indicted for bigamy and perjury. Also indicted is Melva Levin Rubin former Michigan assistant attorney general. They allegedly married in Toledo May 19 under assumed names while both previously married. Rubin with her husband Samuel H. Rubin recently divorced.
Dean Israel H Noe of Memphis Tennessee says he is one step from a perfect spiritual existence and will reach it by renouncing Holy Communion wine and wafers. He is in the 19th day of a fast to prove immortality on earth. The dean will not reveal the final step or timing, expecting it within two years. Bishop James M Maxon ordered his suspension.
Cincinnati officials disclosed that a five detective guard protected the State Liquor Control Board during hearings in the Keith Building. Detective Chief Emmet Kirgan said information warned Newport Kentucky figures might attempt a machine gun raid to "clean out" the offices.
Chinese reports say Japanese marines were repulsed trying to land on Hai Nan Island off South China and French Indo China. Fighting also continued near Shanghai from the Pootung district to the coast.
Washington The Comptroller of the Currency J F T OConnor tendered his resignation to President Roosevelt and the President accepted the move signaling a change in the agency leadership.
A 12 year old threat from a former friend to wipe out the Waite family was recalled after the body of Lena Waite 59 was found bound and shot in her Elmont Long Island home. In a second room Jeanne Schuellian 18 was found bound and shot, modeled after the defendant’s violent warnings.
Marie Porter 37 and Angelo Giancola 21 are to be executed at Southern Illinois Penitentiary for the murder of Porter’s brother William Kappen. Porter sought clemency unsuccessfully and was unaware she would be the first woman to die in the electric chair in Illinois. Kappen’s death followed Porter’s fear of losing insurance beneficiary status.
Columbus officials prepare to meet next Wednesday to discuss grave emergencies facing Ohio gas consumers. W C Reed of Cleveland chairs the Ohio Division of the Cities Alliance and calls for gas rate reductions.
Sen. Allen J. Ellender of Louisiana breaks a Senate record with a five day nonstop talk in the anti lynching bill filibuster marking the longest continuous speech in Senate history. He continues to oppose moves to end the talk while addressing clerks and staff during quiet sessions.
Hollywood veteran actor Robert McWade, with 31 years in film, died on a Civil War set just after completing his final scene. Director Clarence Brown praised the performance as McWade collapsed and died in costume.
Three American Church of the Brethren missionaries disappeared December 2 at Shouyang Shansi Province and were reportedly executed by Communist forces at Wutaihsien while attempting to flee. The group included Mr and Mrs Alva Harsh of Petersburg West Virginia and Miss Minerva Neher of Laverne California.
Work at the Carbon Hill Mining Company stopped for several days due to copper wire theft. Officials reported about 2,000 feet of wire stolen from mine property near Carbon Hill one night last weekend. Deputy Sheriff Nellis Smith investigated starting Wednesday.
Jack Raferty, 77, a former baseball player and umpire, died today in a local hospital in Zanesville. He spent his career in professional and minor league baseball before transitioning to umpiring duties. He is survived by his wife and two children.
President Roosevelt plans random selection of small business letters for conferences in Washington to augment talks with industrial leaders. He aims to form a broad program to combat recession and may bolster anti trust and patent laws to curb monopoly. He met with the Business Advisory Council and discussed a national planning council and cooperation with business.
County commissioners must verify relief rolls under strict rules. New residency and alien eligibility limits apply, with in person benefit delivery and sworn financial disclosures. Recipients must register with public employment offices and seek work. agencies report monthly to prevent duplications. Opportunities for penalties include withholding state funds.
National Association of Manufacturers chairman Colby M. Chester urged the government, business and labor to halt mudslinging and work together to tackle the recession. He told the Senate unemployment and relief committee that a united effort toward a national income of 90 billion dollars annually is needed and that all sides must cooperate to clear the atmosphere.
The article reports that Peter Anders confessed to kidnapping and killing ten year old Charles Mattson and Charles Ross. J Edgar Hoover and the Justice Department oversee the case with secrecy. Witnesses include the Mattson siblings who identified Anders as the bearded man.
Barcelôna records a 95 second air raid by three Nationalist planes causing an estimated 1,600 casualties four hundred dead and 1,200 wounded. One plane strafed streets near the station while bombs damaged a building elevator shaft and multiple eight story structures. Fire and debris hindered rescue as hundreds were recovered from wreckage.
Charleston West Virginia Capt G H Sheen of the State Police questioned a man arrested after a late Wednesday night holdup near Lewisburg in a stolen auto. The car used in the $25 000 bank robbery was found in a Charleston residential area and a money wrapper from the Federal Reserve Bank was recovered in the back seat.
Washington debates a test vote on airplanes versus battleships for national defense. Rep. Gerald Boileau proposes substituting an aviation program for a 70 million super-ship project, amid strong air defense sentiment. Rep. Maury Maverick notes many favor air power in principle but question technical superiority of battleships versus 2,000 planes for the budget.
After two days in Cleveland the Ohio Senate graft committee prepared to return to Columbus to investigate the sharply priced coal for the Cleveland State Hospital and the circumstances behind it.
Dr. A. G. Ray age 70 a long time Jackson physician died in a collision with a bus on Route 75 in Coalton five miles north of here The bus had stopped to discharge a passenger His skull and spine were fractured in the crash
Judge J H Lamneck of New Philadelphia blamed improper home life as the major factor in juvenile delinquency. He spoke at the Ohio juvenile judges convention in Columbus noting about 700000 persons under 21 are arrested annually.
Thomas Moss received a delayed Christmas greeting today postmarked December 20 1935 and mailed from Youngstown six miles away.
Funeral services will be held Friday for Edward J. Kirn 57 an attorney in Lancaster who died Wednesday night He was vice president and a director of the Ohio National Insurance Co.
The U.S. Weather Bureau reports a severe winter drought spreading from Canada to Texas, killing winter wheat, drying streams, forcing farmers to haul water, and sparking dust storms. Moisture has been absent across the central and southern Great Plains east to the Mississippi and west to the Rockies, with critical shortages in southern and western Iowa and western and northern Missouri.
The Senate judiciary subcommittee voted unanimously to report favorably the nomination of Solicitor General Stanley F. Reed to be associate justice of the Supreme Court. The panel, led by Senator M. M. Logan, heard Reed and Attorney General Homer S. Cummings at an open hearing. Reed did not testify and faced no questions.
PITTSBURGH UP The inmate body identified by his brother as Robert Hereford a Huntington W Va family member and former West Virginia school teacher who disappeared after a family quarrel 17 years ago. VIRGIL HEREFORD identified the body and said the death occurred January 16. POLICE RAN SLOT MACHINES BUCYRUS UP Bucyrus police checked to enforce an order against slot and pinball machines.
Fred H. Clausen of Horicon Wisconsin told the House Ways and Means Committee that the business tax revision plan may aid industry but misses practical needs. He pressed for relief aimed at boosting employment to cut relief costs, arguing for repeal of the surtax on undistributed profits and a shift away from corporate penalties.
Farouk I signed a wedding contract for 17 year old Sariaz Zulficar in a brideless ritual at Koubbeh Palace. The ceremony, attended by royal and government figures, marked Egypt’s first independent sovereigns in four centuries despite feminist calls to end the harem custom.
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