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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1923
Page
1
French military authorities ordered large numbers of German officials expelled from the Rhineland. Accusation centers on disobedience to Paris, with deportations sparked by German obedience to Berlin, as France protests shortages and growing unrest.
Lord Curzon, British foreign secretary, warns the League of Nations to act to prevent renewed war between Turkey and Greece. He asks League intervention as tensions rise over Mosul oil and Lausanne peace terms. No council decision was made.
In Munich General Erich Ludendorff, once chief of staff to Hindenburg, declares Russia remains an unknown quantity in Europe and predicts no intervention by England or the United States. He praises American soldiers as well behaved and sportsmanlike and recalls advising against their withdrawal.
A memorial paying tribute to the late Colonel G W Perry of Chillicothe, longtime president of the Associated Ohio Dailies, highlighted today's session of the association of Ohio newspaper publishers and editors in Columbus.
Temporary officers for the Athens Girls' club were installed for three months at a Chamber of Commerce meeting. Edith Ford is president, Virginia Young and Mrs C W Fulton are vice presidents, Sylvia Totman and Brigid Gallagher secretaries, Elizabeth Mills treasurer, and Eleanor Bolin recording secretary. The club with 96 members set monthly business meetings and announced nightly classes in sewing, millinery, domestic science, commercial, piano, gymnastics, voice, and more, all at 7 p m in the Chamber assembly room except gymnastics in the Presbyterian church basement. A social event with an elaborate program and refreshments is planned for Thursday in the Chamber assembly room.
London reports that Foreign Office officials abandoned hope Turkey will sign the Lausanne peace pact. Britain plans a policy of watchful waiting, ready for war or peace, with a strong fleet in the Turkish straits and forces at Constantinople Mosul and Chanak. A Chanak fortress guards the Dardanelles and Britain may defend Mosul's oil fields if Turks advance.
More than 1600 different varieties of wheat are known and the number continues to rise as breeders introduce new forms. The expanding catalog reflects ongoing diversification in global agriculture and food crops.
London January 30. The British cabinet discussed the Anglo American debt issue and heard Stanley Baldwin urge acceptance of the three percent terms from the US funding commission. Debate split among ministers with Bonar Law wavering, some hardliners resisting and others pressuring acceptance as the best available option for Britain’s finances.
Paris reports the foreign office could not confirm press rumors of 20 German deaths in riots at Ropport near Bingen-on-Rhine due to interrupted communications. The Echo de Paris carried the original despatch claiming fighting started after the burgomaster was arrested.
Nineteen year old Helen Collins of Amsterdam New York wrote for a week of bliss before death from a crippling illness. The appeal drew numerous responses by mail telephone and telegram as strangers offered marriage and care from local residents and others hoping to provide companionship and happiness in her final days.
Police raid on a Newark Ohio home in a liquor law case ends when Nettie Bougher flings a stew pan of corn whiskey into a hot stove. An explosion wrecks the stove and scorches her face, sending flames high.
Medina dated January 30 reports Fremont E Tanner elected county surveyor last November and appointed to complete eight months of the late Walter R Bibbins term.
Beekeepers at Wheeling WV predict a record honey crop for 1923 based on mild weather. They note last year’s poor production due to belated April freezes and say conditions have favored the bee industry this season.
A leaking gas pipe in a downtown Kansas City cafeteria exploded early today, destroying ten business establishments in the building. Fire followed but was contained, with estimated damages of 125000 dollars.
The immigration committee splits over a proposal to curb Japanese admission by tying eligibility to citizenship, amid a Supreme Court ruling on race. A compromise would cut the quota to two percent, use the 1890 population, and include immediate family of naturalized citizens while maintaining overall annual arrivals near 360,000.
The first forum luncheon of Athens Chamber of Commerce members will be held Wednesday at 11 45 in conjunction with the Good Roads Federation District No 12 meeting. W F Rudisill and Leon C Herrick will address the group as 41 counties and large delegations are expected.
A cable to Secretary Hoover from Dr. Charles F. Herring in Berlin says the French Ruhr occupation has driven price rises and a further mark collapse, requiring additional credit expansion to sustain German industrial activity.
Sa voy Holt and J W Swanner were indicted for murder tied to the Logan county miners march. They were arrested in Sugar Creek by West Virginia state police and held in Athens after officers claimed requisition papers were present. Authorities said they were taken against their will and later moved with their prisoners.
A Bucyrus special grand jury indicted Pancrazi Dermeinegildo and Dominic Roudge, Crestline Italians, for murder in the shooting death of Crestline policeman Andrew Hess, who died from wounds suffered during an alleged gunfight while arresting the pair last December.
Ohio State University opened the eleventh annual farmers week with 929 in attendance, down from 1530 last year when 3006 agriculture students registered. To ease congestion, those students will register later. Today's program features cattle judging and several discussions led by noted professors and deans on topics including China and Japan and taxation.
January 30 reports say police will serve warrants on 40 chiropractors to enforce state board licensing rules. No women are listed. Attorney for Ohio Chiropractors' Association president A J Schnake, fined $25, plans a bill of exceptions next week arguing the arrest affidavit is invalid and that prosecution rests on a limited practice statute.
Ru hk Weres Down Berlin reports telephone and telegraph links to Dusseldorf and Cologne were interrupted this afternoon.
The Yorkville tin plate plant increased operations by 25 percent and will start three more mills once workers are available, bringing the total to 198 machines in operation at this 24 mill plant.
A. 3. Robinson, editor of the Ravenna Republican and Buckeye Press president, told the Ohio newspaper conference at Ohio State University that farmers seek local happenings in newspapers rather than technical agronomy essays. He urged papers to serve home news first.
Peter McClain a 45 year old Cleveland man believed to be a fake real estate dealer lies in hospital after being shot by three policemen. He reportedly jumped from a basement window during arrest on two charges of obtaining money under false pretenses for deals never completed.
In Yorkville Ohio on January 30 miners employed by the O. and P. Coal Co. request installation of an electric siren to sound each night. The signal would designate whether there will be work the following day amid a car shortage and poor mining activity.
The United States government through Assistant Attorney General Tellier accepted 1,550,000 dollars from the Lincoln Motor Co receivers as full settlement of war contract claims totaling 9,188,561 dollars, in federal court before Judge Tuttle in Detroit on January 30.
East Ohio Gas Co submitted a contract proposing new gas rates for Cleveland. For the first two years the rates would be 1 dollar for the initial 1 000 cubic feet, 50 cents per thousand for the next 30 000, 60 cents for the next 10 000 and 75 cents over 41 000, with higher rates of 1.55, 65, and 85 cents for the following three years through May 1, 1928. The plan aims as substitutes for a temporary graduated rate set by the court of appeals while a supreme court decision on municipal rate authority awaits.
Special investigator F S Evans of the state prohibition enforcement department probes conditions in Belmont county amid protests by Democrats against the reappointment of John C Iddings a Republican administrator ousted by the Davis administration The Donahey regime had rehired Iddings as law enforcer for Belmont county on Republicans recommendations
Alfred I. Britton, 76, and his son Alfred P. Britton, 42, both lawyers, pleaded guilty to stealing funds from estates entrusted to them. County Judge Alonzo G. McLaughlin sentenced the elder to two to ten years and the younger to two and one half to ten, sending them to Sing Sing.
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