Pruning Knife To Be Wielded At Courthouse
County budget talks aim to cut about 15000 from the annual appropriation with 3000 to 4000 saved by the auditor. L H Blackwood calls for drastic cuts while J H Grosvenor and J W Lax favor even distribution. William Jaynes was released from county jail after liquor fines were addressed.
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Messenger
J. H. Grosvenor
J. W. Lax
L. H. Blackwood
Commissioners’ Journal
William Jaynes
Mrs Judd May View Exhibits At Trial
In Phoenix on January 22 a 19 year old blonde Mrs Judd May faces a murder trial for abducting Agnes Anne Leroi and sending her and roommates Hedvig Samuelson to Los Angeles. Prosecutors seek to introduce luggage exhibits including blood stained clothing shells and medical instruments said to be used in dismembering Miss Samuelson with photographs of the bodies prior to removal.
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Phoenix
Ariz
U.R
Uda
Agnes Anne Leroi
Mild Rain Falls as Cold Wave Fails to Arrive
Weather notes from Athens County observer Mrs. C. N. France report a mild, rainy day with overcast skies and a steady springlike temperature. Rain last night through morning reached .12 inch while Hack Fee River fell from 5.10 to 4.90 feet, with a high 64 and low 49 yesterday. This morning the mercury sits in the lower fifties.
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C. N. France
Athens County
Hackfee
Esterday
Mercury
Moratorium Declared in Aurora by Mayor Bijerseth
A five day moratorium on business and manufacturing was proclaimed by Mayor Conrad N. Bijerseth in Aurora after talks with bankers and business leaders. The action follows discussions that began last night and continued until 8 m today amid the Chicago metropolitan financial crisis.
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Aurora
Ill
Conrad N. Bijerseth
Chicago
Bjerseth
Brick Plant Receivers Seek $100000 Damages in Coal Theft
Judgment of $100000 is sought by A. M. Renick and R. H. Jackson receivers of The Athena Brick Corporation from The C. Robbins Coal Company in Athens County Common Pleas Court. The petition alleges that between January 1, 1919 and July 1, 1921 the defendant mined removed and carried away coal from the plant premises.
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Athena Brick Corporation
C. Robbins Coal Company
A. M. Renick
R. H. Jackson
Athens County Common Pleas Court
Wow Ming
Athena Corporation
Robbins Company
Athena Reorganization Committee, Inc
Athena Glazed Brick Company
Hearse Drivers Union Triggers Chicago Funeral Procession Ban
In Chicago a strong union of hearse and funeral automobile drivers bans private citizens from leading funeral processions. The piece also notes Athena Brick Corp coal use and disputes over mining areas affecting brick plant operations dating to 1925 1929 and 1930s reorganizations.
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Chicago
Northcliffe
Funeral procession halted by union in Chicago
United States Attorney George E. Q. Johnson attended his mother's burial yesterday as friends rode in private cars. The union halted the funeral and sent the private cars home, a move seen as annoying if not humiliating in high spirited Chicago.
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United States
George E. Q. Johnson
Union
Chicago
Funeral for 18-year-old basketball captain amid crash
A funeral procession for Louis Lakin 18, a high school basketball captain, halted when a private car carrying students forced its way into the line. Dolly Rand 17 was killed and nine other high school pupils were injured as a coal truck approached.
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Louis Lakin
Union
Dolly Rand
Funeral protest halts twice as union fears arise
On two later occasions the funeral was stopped amid union warnings. The federation head, Mr. Green, plans to warn the hearse union that extremes invite dangerous competition. A Chicagoan allegedly plans a home cremation venture to keep funerals peaceful.
Bootlegger Jack De Marco Celebrates Release in Rockford
Jack De Marco a boot legger by trade held a party in Rockford Illinois to mark his release from Leavenworth Penitentiary. The event drew attention as a routine incident in local crime reporting.
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Jack de Marco
Rockford, Ill
Leavenworth Penitentiary
Death of De Marco After Prohibition Agents Open Fire
Four guests and the wife were forced to another room as three men claiming to be agents entered while a phonograph Played. De Marco, who allegedly squealed, turned pale and was killed by five shots, two of which hit him in the back of the head. Legs Diamond faces another dangerous aftermath as gunmen persist in retaliation.
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de Marco
Prohibition
Legs Diamond
Broadway Limited trip highlights unions and national rail value
A reflective note compares the Broadway Limited journey from New York to Chicago and toward the Pacific with the value of railroad unions, contrasting them with criminal caricatures and prohibition imagery.
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New York
Chicago
Pacific Ocean
Broadway Limited
Train Runs Millions-Pound Route Through Any Weather
Despite bad times and wage cuts, workers operate a massive train weighing millions of pounds over thousands of miles in twenty hours. The crew performs the demanding task with skill, conscience, and absolute security, even while sleep comes easily.
Railroad unions focus on safety despite tough conditions
Only well organized men pride themselves on independence and could build such an American railroad system. Union workers stay intensely focused on their job, safeguarding the train and passengers, rather than being demoralized by hard conditions. Continued on Page.
Exchange Saves Family By Trading For Rent In Los Angeles
In Los Angeles a cooperative exchange lets residents pay rents and obtain repairs and services without cash. A mother and six children faced eviction but the landlord accepted paint work credits toward Mrs Blank’s rent. The system includes painters, doctors, lawyers, and other trades, with 300 members and five other cities adopting it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
Calif
U.P
Co-Operative Exchange
Exchange
Will Take Chance Young Mother Ready For Critical Operation
Mrs Lillian Moore a 19 year old mother prepares to take her 13 month old daughter Diana to the Neurological Institute in New York for a dangerous brain operation. Doctors say the child is a cerebrospastic case with a small brain cavity and require opening the rear skull to allow brain growth. Mrs Moore says she was deserted after birth and that her husband left Detroit seeking a son.
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New York
U.P
Lillian Moore
Diana
Neurological Institute
Oscar Agnew Spier
Moore
Detroit
Honor Debaters at Athens High School From Local Teams
An afternoon honors ceremony for the Athens and Nelsonville debate teams was held in Miss Mary Connett's room with faculty guests and state representative Dr. H. K. Mardis as debate chairman present at the tea.
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Athens High School
Athens
Nelsonville
Mary Connett
8. K.mardis
Stricken Countryside Seen As Winter Flies 200 Miles Over Mississippi Flood Area
A 200 mile flight from Memphis to Jackson over the Mississippi flood zone shows destitute families on high ground and refugee camps in almost every town. In Greenwood, most streets are underwater as convict crews bolster levees and rescue teams from Chicago arrive with life saving boats. The Yazoo River threat grows as floodwaters rise 1.7 feet.
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Mississippi
Merrill E. Compton
United Press
Jackson
Miss
U.R
Memphis
Tenn
Greenwood
Yazoo River
Athens Junior High Honors Three Journalists With Pins
Athens Junior High School awards annual honor pins to its top year journalists. Principal M A Grubb inaugurates the custom. Recipients include Parker Walker editor Julian Bing business manager and Leslie Fultz feature editor.
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J. H. News
Athens Junior High School
M. A. Grubb
Parker Walker
Julian Bing
Leslie Fultz
Will Thinks We Need More Charley Dawes Around the Country
A letter from WILL laments the shortage of Charley Dawes across the nation. The writer notes Americans travel abroad but resist flying home and jokes that Lausanne reparations talks may be off without Dawes.
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Will
Charley Dawes
London
Paria
Dawes
Lausanne
All Want Ads All Want Ads for Sunday Charge It
Classified listing notes for Sunday publication advertising buy now pay later offers and credit terms. Includes consumer goods and miscellaneous items with emphasis on financing and quick sale options.
Billy Helps Mother With One-Cent Donut Crusade
Ten year old Billy Somplatsky wheels through Powhatan seeking pennies to buy a new wheel chair for his legless mother. Five years earlier his mother rescued him from a burning home in Athens County and later had legs amputated. She now relies on a fragile chair. Billy sells his mother’s doughnuts to fund a replacement.
Funeral for E. E. LaBaw in Athens
Funeral services for E. E. LaBaw 29 printer at The Athens Messenger will be held Sunday at 2 PM in the Presbyterian Church. Coroner’s verdict is accidental death after a fall from a third story window in the newspaper building. Burial in West Union Street Cemetery. LaBaw leaves a widow Mary White LaBaw and two sons along with his mother stepfather and several siblings.
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E. E. LaBaw
Athens Messenger
Sheltering Arms
Presbyterian Church
A. ¥. Wilcox
West Union Street
L. F. Jones
Primrose Green
LaBaw
Athens
The
Christian Church
Mary White LaBaw
Wallace
Eugene
D. G. Murray
Georgetown
Inl
Lafayette
Ind
Vivian
Frankfort
Leota Smith
Attica
Cooper la Baw
Hobart
Church Convention Ends with Militant War Fight Plan
The Ohio Pastor's Convention in Cleveland closes as 648 ministers return home urging outlawing war and redistribution of industrial fruits. They advocate higher taxes on large incomes, unemployment insurance, cooperative planning, tariff reform, troop withdrawals, and an end to profiteering, while supporting a future refusal to back war. Prohibition receives little attention amid calls for social reform and church courage.
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Cleveland
Ohio
United States Supreme Court
Congress
Rail Conferees Predict Ten Percent Wage Cut
Chicago leaders of capital and labor predict a 10 per cent wage cut and employment stabilization in the rail industry effective today or tomorrow. Daniel Willard, president of the Baltimore and Ohio, says roads accept in good faith the union request for stabilized work. Executives doubt 1930 employment levels can be guaranteed but wage relief could restore jobs and prevent bankruptcies impacting life insurance holders and bank depositors.
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Chicago
Daniel Willard
Baltimore and Ohio
Willard
Prohibitionists Claim Capitol Hill Victory After Dry Vote
On January 21 the Senate defeated the Bingham Referendum Resolution 55 to 15. Proponents hailed the result as proof of dry numerical superiority in Congress, while wets criticized the measure as unprecedented and tactical, noting it aimed to inform states about potential referendums.
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Washington
Sheppard
Senate
Bulkley
Ohio
Washington portraits hung in Athens Junior High history rooms
Three large copies of Gilbert Stuart's George Washington were framed and hung in Athens Junior High School history rooms. The portraits were sent by the Washington Bicentennial Commission and placed in rooms of Sherman Gilmore Eugene Cottle and Kermit Diehl. Study in history classes will start soon for the Every Pupil Test set for Feb 15 and 16, according to Principal M A Grubb.
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Gilbert Stuart
George Washington
Athens
Washington Bicentennial Commission
Sherman Gilmore
Eugene Cottle
Kermit Dieh
Washington
Cora Bailey
Teast Po
M. A. Grubb
Youths Probed Relentlessly In Quarry Murder Case
Lima officers continued overnight questioning of Lloyd P. Ziegler and James May over the deaths of Thelma Woods and Earl Truesdale last May. A signed confession implicating May was produced by Ziegler, but he denied it while prosecutors planned to present the confession to the Allen County grand jury for murder indictments.
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Lima
U.P
Lloyd P. Ziegler
James May
Thelma Woods
Earl Truesdale
Ziegler
May
Donald Smith
Mansfield Reformatory
Mary
Truesdale
Miss Woods
E. M. Botkin
Allen County
Ziegier
Four Americans face murder charges in Hawaii case
Honolulu report notes Oahu Grand Jury pondered circumstantial evidence against Mrs Grace Hubbard Fortescue, her son in law Lieut Thomas H Massie, and two naval men. The victim Joe Kakahawai was among five men accused of attacking Mrs Massie as the territorial legislature backs police reform.
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Honolulu
T. H
Oahu
Territorial
Islands
Grace Hubbard Fortescue
Thomas H. Massie
Joe Kahahawai
Shot Bouts Attackers In Cincinnati Home Invasion
Two men, described as drug crazed, broke into Wanda Cramer’s Cincinnati home at dawn after waking her from sleep. They dragged her downstairs and threatened to kill her, but fled when a shot fired by one of them woke other occupants. מש
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Cincinnati
U.R
Wanda Cramer
Hoover Receives Ohio GOP Backing for Reelection
Columbus officials report the Ohio Republican state central committee endorsed President Hoover for the 1932 renomination amid two dissenting votes. The body authorized subcommittees to address a $40,000 debt from the 1930 campaign and set convention representation.
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Columbus
Hoover
Republican State Central Committee
Fred W. Warner
Marion
Central Committee
Ed D. Sehoff
White
H. L. Bevis
Oosulvi Vee
Acte Schoff
Youth Shot by Two Girls in Tennessee Roadside Ambush
A Tennessee youth was lured by two girls into a car and taken to a deserted roadhouse where he was shot in the chest and left after protesting the ride. One girl was known to the victim. the other remained a stranger. The account details kidnapping and a deadly shooting as police investigate the ambush.
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Hena
Decatur
Ban on Athens County high school oratorical contest
Principals from 12 high schools met at the County Board of Education offices to decide ending the joint oratorical contest with the annual field meet. Dissatisfaction with the combined scoring prompted the move. A noncompetitive musical program will replace the event. The field meet date remains undecided.
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Athens
Sych
County Board of
Cction
Athens County
the Principale
Nationalists Split Over Tariff Policy Reported
London dispatch reports Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald’s national government divided on tariffs. An official communique says ministers unable to unite on import duties may express their views by speech and vote after a cabinet session lasting about ninety minutes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
J. Ramsay Ma Donald
Cabi Net
Met
Hoax Ends As Gallipolis Teens Injured In Incident
In Gallipolis a reported hoax led to an incident at the Industrial School where 15 year old Bert Ramer and 18 year old Bi er suffered injuries during a frightful event. Police and officials began an investigation into the matter.
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Gallipolis
Jan
Bert Ramer
Bier
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Mr. Hoover
King Features, Inc
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Indore
Nancy Miller
Seattle
Wash
Conte Blancamano
India
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Sunday Messenger
Msenger
N - Ville
Logan
Billy
Presbyterian
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Republican Committee
Alabama
Ramsay MacDonald
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