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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1930
Page
1
At a London conference leaders from Britain and France weigh a compromise on naval tonnage limits. The plan would set total strength per nation and permit shifting a percentage of ships between classes, while debate continues on the scope of transfers and whether to use a sub committee.
Springfield HL January 31 United Press Arthur M Hyde secretary of agriculture told Illinois Agricultural Association that global over expansion after World War I drove farm distress. He noted production rose outside Europe during the war and others did not cut back when Europe recovered, increasing worldwide output and lowering prices. Canadian Argentine and Australian cropland has more than doubled since 1900. Their combined wheat area now exceeds the United States.
Fort of New Jersey urged clarification of the Volstead Act to permit home production of light wines and beer arguing it may fall outside the one half of one percent prohibition threshold. He said enforcement should focus on law rather than education and warned the issue reflects economic and ethical shifts in the American public.
Glendale California January 31 Harold Bromley the Lieu tenant will attempt his third nonstop flight across the Pacific in a monoplane similar to the Lindbergh craft. The 4860 mile journey aims to test endurance and navigation over the ocean.
In a January Washington scene a man named Andrew Madden awoke to claim his wife’s accusation that he took 350. He dressed in underwear and ran to the corner bar for a pint of milk, then returned barefoot to collect the reward, amid a stinging wind and deep snow.
W A Christensen, totally blind, relies on Alma von Eckenweller, a Belgian shepherd eye dog, to navigate busy streets. The pair describe precise cues at doors, steps, and intersections, with Almo stopping for height checks and warning on large obstacles. Christensen predicts broader use of such dogs and cites German programs using cross marked dogs to alert motorists.
A Los Angeles taxicab driver praised Chicago to a Chicagoan visitor at the Biltmore Hotel, before predicting Chicago will remain beloved while Los Angeles expands rapidly. He forecasts Los Angeles reaching twenty million residents by century’s end.
George Moran failed to stop Charles E. Mack from using the professional name Black Crow in Los Angeles. Superior Judge Gates denied the injunction but allowed Moran to amend the petition, suggesting a new filing may proceed. Moran and Mack, long separated after 12 years, contend over stage and screen use of the name. Mack’s real name is Charles F. Sellers and Moran’s is George Searcy.
Mildred Stinaff an 18 year old Akron stenographer wrapped 26 loops with an instructor then 42 solo loops for a total of 68 setting a new women’s aircraft loop record. The prior official mark was 28 by Dorothy Stocker of Houston. Stinaff knew nothing of aviation before joining the municipal airport staff last year.
A USR A glider piloted by Lieut. Ralph Barnaby detached from the navy dirigible Los Angeles and flew 3000 feet over Lakehurst Naval Air Station in New Jersey, marking a successful test flight.
President elect Manuel Ortiz Rubio will take office in February succeeding Emilio Portes Gil. The article notes Rubio’s rise and the transition of the Mexican presidency.
The speaker notes dairy products from the Southern Hemisphere are exported in vastly greater quantities while Europe maintains milk cheese butter and pork production above pre war levels.
Plans were completed to create the Northern Ohio Farmers Market backed by the Northern Ohio Wood Terminal Company to boost Cleveland as a sale and distribution hub for farm products. Opening is set around April 1 on a seven acre site near the food terminal area with capacity for 1 000 farmers stands serving a region including Erie Pennsylvania Mt Vernon Ohio Toledo and other areas whose produce moves mainly by motor truck.
Richard Stewart, 47, Warren, has entered the seventeenth day of fasting in the county jail to protest a $200 fine for molesting a female. He claims the sentence by Judge Perry is unjust and asserts his innocence.
The Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America reports that church and state issues confront Protestantism with new force and emphasis after the recent presidential campaign. The comprehensive pronouncement on social work among the churches is compiled by F Ern-.
Mrs. Helen Moore bakes a test pie in Common Pleas Court to prove her cooking ability against husband Frank Moore who filed for divorce. Judge Alvin J. Pearson will hear the case as the pie is presented to resolve the dispute.
Additional families along the Wabash River in Indiana and Illinois fled as an eight mile ice gorge threatened to release a wall of water. Some farmers moved to higher ground yesterday while airmen dropped food and fuel to marooned residents. Relief workers prepared 266 bags of aid for distribution today.
Union Union Senator Roscoe C. McCulloch of Canton announces his candidacy for the Ohio junior senatorial seat at a Montgomery County Republican Club event in Dayton on January 31. He spoke to party members about his campaign aims and credentials.
A mob of unemployed in Lichtenberg Berlin started a food riot today plundering a store and beating a group of shop girls.
Joseph Pongo Cantillon, long time baseball player manager and umpire, died at his Hickman home after a paralytic stroke. He had been bedridden for some time as family members kept vigil at his side.
On the U S George Washington en route to the London Naval Conference, Mrs Snyder writes of the rough passage and the silent exchanges among delegates. Dwight Morrow, Secretary Stimson, and Charles Francis Adams are pictured aboard with families and aides, as casual deck conversations reveal pre conference considerations.
In Oklahoma City a federal jury hears a liquor conspiracy case tied to Seminole oil boom spillover. Prosecutors seek to prove officials from Pottawatomie County to the state capitol accepted protection money for liquor rights. Witnesses recount alleged acts against a nine year old Indian girl and others deprived of license fees.
R H Kirkendall, 41, of Creola Vinton County and district representative for a hook company, was found dead in the garage at the rear of his Kent home last night from carbon monoxide poisoning.
The Federal Reserve Board considered moving hundreds of millions of dollars in idle government gold held in vaults into foreign investments.
A speaker argues the provision clearly lifts restrictions on home-made cider and light wines, prompting debate over regulatory reach and potential exemptions for home production.
Senator Brookhart cites a letter alleging real gin cocktails at Century Club dinners in New York City. He asks President Hoover and George W. Wickersham of the President’s Law Enforcement Commission to advise on stopping such alleged violations.
In New Castle pa on January 21 U R Youngstown lawyers agreed to defend Irena Schroeder accused in the Corp Brady Paul shooting case. Schroeder told her lover Glenn Dague in jail that if they won t defend her they won t defend me and she would stand by her edict.
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