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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1941
Page
1
Ohio old age assistance in January averaged $23.26 with total disbursements of $3,094,885. Tom McCaw, head of the Division of Aid for the Aged, says flat $40 payments are financially and legally infeasible without more recipients. Increases will depend on individual needs and reinvestigations.
Editors from daily and weekly newspapers travel to Columbus for the Ohio Newspaper Association annual convention. The program includes legislative discussions tomorrow morning and separate sessions of the Select List and Buckeye Press Association in the afternoon. State officials and lawmakers will attend the closing banquet Friday night.
Rescue crews burrowed through 100 feet of debris at the Glen Alden Coal Co mine in Tresckow to reach two men entombed after a pillar collapse. Henry Sussick, 40, and Michael Barkley, 42, were trapped at about 10 a.m. yesterday and there was no sign they survived.
500 Ohio draftees arrived at Camp Shelby amid warm weather and a festive reception. Lt Col R H Cannon addressed them as the band played The Beer Barrel Polka and soldiers asked about insignia meanings while joking about the draft. One recruit said he hopes the service lasts under a year and avoids war.
Meigs County recluse Conrad Folmer who died recently left an estate appraised at about 50000 dollars. The frugal loner had hinted at little wealth, but the appraisal shows he was comparatively wealthy.
Seven pairs of brothers were drafted together among 218 U S army selectees who entrained here last night for Camp Shelby Mississippi. The Carruthers brothers John S. and Joseph H. aged 28 and 25 were among the pairs.
The Associated Press reports British forces in North Africa captured 11 Italian divisions totaling about 132,000 men in Egypt and Libya since December 9, with roughly 100,000 Fascists captured, and 14,000 Italians taken as prisoners including four more generals and an admiral.
In Shanghai a shooting affray occurred during a council meeting with about 3,000 spectators. W. J. Keswick, British chairman of the Shanghai Municipal Council, and two Japanese council officials were lightly wounded. Y. Hayashi, 60, head of the Association of Japanese Street Unions, was detained by Japanese consular police after allegedly brandishing a pistol.
Ohio selective service reports 1000 Negroes among 2691 men drafted in the army's third call. Inductions set for Cleveland Toledo Columbus and Fort Thomas Ky from Feb 10 to 12 for white troops and Feb 1 to 25 for Negroes with officers noting the schedule.
GOP leaders in the Ohio Legislature doubt diverting 9 million dollars in auto license tag revenues can aid local governments without crippling the highway program. An administration spokesman warned the Federal Bureau of Roads could cut road allocations if state funds are diverted.
The government announces an $8.4 million airplane engine laboratory project at Cleveland Airport with a $5 million expansion of a landing gear plant. Construction to begin immediately on a 200 acre site includes an engine lab wind tunnel test hangar and related facilities with first units due in operation by fall.
Two people died and twelve were injured when a Transcontinental and Western airliner crashed near Lambert St Louis Municipal Airport while base approach was being made for landing at 5 15 am EST. Captain P T W Scott chief pilot and J F Mott a passenger were killed. The plane wandered from Los Angeles after a late schedule.
Ohio probate and juvenile judges split sessions after joint talks urging disease free weddings and end to common law marriages. They backed streamlining probate courts and birth certificate filing reform and approved medical exam prerequisites with physician certificates of disease freedom for couples.
In Nashville Tennessee a new contract between the Vultee Aircraft plant and the AFL machinists union is signed and bars work stoppages.
Mackenzie weighs how lifting the moral embargo on Russia could alter the balance among Britain, the Soviet Union, and the Triple Alliance. He notes Britain’s stance on Communism, the Daily Worker ban, and Moscow’s neutrality while weighing who benefits if Russia sides with the Allies or remains neutral.
In Pontiac Illinois Ernest R Eisele 22 died from wounds after resisting arrest on a draft evasion charge His father Martin Eisele was critically wounded in a gun and knife fight with two officers Deputy U S Marshal Eugene Ahrends 45 from Peoria was stabbed in the neck and head Chief Deputy Sheriff Robert Jones of Livingston County was stabbed in the neck face and side Local residents say the elder protested the draft board order arguing the son could not be spared from farm chores if drafted.
The Wholesale Beer Association of Ohio pledged full cooperation with the State Liquor Department to curb bootlegging and the sale of liquor and beer to minors. Association president F. M. Guilinger of Montpelier assured Liquor Director Jacob B. Taylor of unanimous support at the group’s one day annual meeting in Columbus.
Col. Charles A. Lindbergh told the House Foreign Affairs Committee that a U.S.-British win in Europe is unlikely under the present basis and urged a negotiated peace. He opposed the lease lend bill, called for a 10 000 plane first line air force with equal reserves, and proposed air bases across North America and the Caribbean to safeguard American security.
In an East Canadian port, a top German air ace and hundreds of prisoners were moved toward interment camps after recapture of one escapee from a prison ship. The prisoner described matches Major Helmuth Wick, commander of the Richtofen squadron, who was shot down over the English Channel.
Berkeley crowds flood South Hall to enroll in Frederic L. Paxton's American civilization course. Five hundred students are said to have fainted during the rush. No exams will be given and credit will be based solely on attendance.
Ohio Supreme Court denied a rehearing in Hugh M. Foster's suit to compel the State Tax Commission to collect nearly one million dollars from chain food stores for alleged sales tax evasion. The court had previously dismissed the case as without foundation.
Elyria AP reports Theodore E. White of Cleveland, an attorney hired by an insurance company, was killed in a collision at Root Road Crossing with a New York Central passenger train near Elyria. A truck-automobile collision had occurred shortly before in the same area.
Ohio mine safety committee headed by John W. Bricker resumes executive sessions to repeal the secrecy clause so inspectors reports would be public. Chairman George A. Strain says the panel will likely support the amendment and consider expanding the division of mines and mining as part of recodifying mining laws after disasters that killed over 100 in the Ohio bituminous fields last year.
In Washington today speculation swirled over replacing Associate Justice James Clark McReynolds on the Supreme Court. Attorney General Jackson emerged as the name most mentioned though President Roosevelt offered no hints on the sixth appointment since taking office.
The United States holds about 69.5 billion dollars in ready cash across purses and bank accounts, averaging 527 dollars per person. Federal Reserve experts say this is at least 13 billion more than the best years of 1928 29, marking a gain of over 5 billion in the last year.
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